It can be a shocking sight for new people who come to visit our church. Who hops onto the podium to give a sermon but a man wearing a T-shirt or a golf shirt, with Kakki shorts and thongs on his feet. Took me a while to ajust to them, instead of tie and suit. But I like it. I admire their honesty that look pass the the outfits which so often are just good looking visage which give people false image of the person wearing it when in deed, he is just an ordinary person like you and I. What makes him extra ordinary is that Jesus is working in his life and he is sharing what he has learned (not what he knows) with the rest of us. Jesus can also work in us if we let him and each one of us should have our own wonderful and powerful experience with Jesus to share with others, may be not in the form of an half an hour speach. Ever heard of stale sermons? Just too many to contend with! We can be easily fooled by what we see than what we hear.





To-day Sandy (the young adults' pastor) gave his yearly sermon. He has a different speaking style than the rest of the pastors. It almost seems he is bouncing his thoughts over one things to another and if we are not focused, we can easily lose him. So I dropped down notes on a piece of paper inorder to better follow him.


He talked about:


- the Kingdom of Heaven is described as a treasure, as a pearl in the Bible (not fit for people who trash it).


- The foundation of our true joy is our salvation in Jesus


- The only way to keep it is not to continue in our sin (that is 'repent' whenever God let us know

some thing in our lives does not pleases him).

- Give up the stuffs that hinder our relationship with Him. Let him deal with them.


- Jesus considers the reward of relinguishing sin in our lives greater than the cost.


- Unbelieve leads to the opposite of 'Joy'.


- Sin is OK when we become 'an avoider' - 'run away from things which God call us to do' or

'run through things which God did not call us to do'.


- The Bible challenge us to be good athletes, to run with persistent, to run with a goal, to get

the approval of god, to receive the real reward. Not running around aimlessly.



Doing the right things or the things we so desire sometimes seems impossible.


Sandy put on a documentry clipping at the end of his sermon. It is about a young man who is crippled with sistic fibrosis. He wanted to run a marathorn. He father who is an athlete, wanted to fullfill his son's wish by pushing his son on the wheelchair while he run the marathorn, he was on the bike with the son in the front, he was rolling a dingy with son on it, he was carrying his son up the slop in his arms and finally to the finishing line.


The message was so powerful. I can't help but to notice that I am the crippled child and the Godher is my father. As long as I surender myself to Him, he will run for me.