A couple of days ago I was running (I use that term very loosely) on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio... And I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I learned....The world is changing, mov ing forward, unaccustomed to the fancies and whims of minds and hearts disaffected. The moments and seasons of yester-year fraught with pain and sorrows, somehow forgotten and pushed away. There was and is nothing that could not have and would not have happened that did not happen. The following is a post by Siby Varghese. Siby will be hosting Doubt Night this Thursday at 7pm at Seven Mile Road.
There are benefits and pressures of having more than one culture. On the one hand, young diaspora Asians have the best of both worlds. Their life experience can be seen as richer and more diverse than those who have knowledge of only one culture. They can have bhangra and rock,
chapatis and chips, Bollywood and Hollywood. ‘The word “love” doesn’t mean you are happy with the person. If it means losing my family, which is more important to me, then I wouldn’t marry someone who was not Gujarati’ (A young Gujarati). Marriage continues to be an important institution for South Asians. For many
South Asian parents, their main goal in life is to see their children educated and married, so the pressure to find a partner and settle down, The term 'diaspora' refers to a dispersion of a people from their original homeland. It was originally used to refer to the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine, following the Babylonians' conquest of the Judean Kingdom in the 6th century BC. Until fairly recently, it was
used to refer to Jews living outside of modern day Israel. 
The international conference attempting to reconcile South Asians across diverse ethnic boundaries was started by a local Singapore Pastor Pritam Singh Sandhu. Crossing strong political and religious boundaries, the South Asian Global Convention SAGC 2009 gathered groups
like Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalis, Sri Lankans and Bangladeshis. The event, which concluded last week, was nothing short of a ‘miracle’ and
‘God’s hand’, said founder and coordinator Pastor Pritam Singh, citing remarks by attendants. A young man, slapped with all the addictions one can possibly imagine, being freed from them by the power of the Gospel, as he testifies. Referring to himself as a street gangster turned preacher, Victor King relates how though he was raised in a Christian family, he was rebellious and
went on a seemly irreversibly downhill trajectory as he got involved in a gang, picked up smoking, started skipping school, stealing, vandalising, drinking and getting into fights. 
In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings. Market driven spirituality has generally scripted us to believe that we are not responsible, that we are a product of our feelings and enviroment. But such "religious" sounding scripts do not describe reality or knowledge of things as they are. If our feelings or temptation to appease political regimes control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so. Kingdom believers make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bring the newborn into the world. May the church never forget who gave birth to it and at what cost it had been purchased from the world. Now is the time to carry the cross and count the cost.
I Surrender All ~ I Surrender All ~ All To Thee My Blessed Savior ~ I Surrender All ~ All To Jesus I Surrender ~ All To Him I Freely Give ~ I Will Ever Love And Trust Him ~ In His Presence Daily Live ~ All To Jesus I Surrender ~ Humbly At His Feet I Bow ~ Worldly Pleasures All Forsaken ~ Take Me Jesus Take Me Now ~ All To Jesus I Surrender ~ Make Me Savior Wholly Thine ~ Let Me Feel The Holy Spirit ~ Truly Know That Thou Art Mine
Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God ~ And His Righteousness ~ And All These Things Shall Be Added Unto You ~ Allelu, Alleluia ~ Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone ~ But By Every Word ~ That Proceeds From The Mouth Of God ~ Allelu, Alleluia ~ Ask And It Shall Be Given Unto You ~ Seek And Ye Shall Find ~ Knock And The Door Shall Be Opened Unto You ~ Allelu, Alleluia
This Is The Air I Breathe ~ This Is The Air I Breathe ~ Your Holy Presence Living In Me ~ This Is My Daily Bread ~ This Is My Daily Bread ~ Your Very Word Spoken To Me ~ And I - I'm Desperate For You ~ And I - I'm Lost Without You.
Dr. Abraham Wesley is a humble and anointed servant of God with thirty
years missionary experience. He is the founder of India Revival
Ministries, radio teacher for VEDA PATASHALA" and appears in many
Telugu Christian programs in Andra Pradesh, all over India and
internationally among the Telugu diaspora. God is using Dr. Abraham
Wesley to impact millions of Christians and non-Christians with his
messages, books and monthly newsletter called "SPARKS" which contains a
lot of content for spiritual growth and personal development. EVANGEL
-2010 Personal Evangelism Workshop is not just another program but an
effective prayer strategy and teaching tool on one-to-one evangelism.
Be a part of God’s story in mission as your story of salvation
intersects with your friends and family to bring glory to God and a
harvest of souls for the church and for the Kingdom of God. My
dear brother and sisters in Christ, don't miss this opportunity and see
you and your friends on Friday 28th May 2010 at 9.00 am at the Lutheran
Church of Our Redeemer. 
God has given us inherent natural laws and spiritual laws that we can put into practice to gain mastery over the flesh and to excel and maximize our potential as human beings. Non-believers can also tap into some of these laws and excel in some areas of their lives because of the common grace that God extends to all.