.....times of refreshing.....

I thoroughly enjoyed a sermon by my Pastor on an early Sunday morning last week. In fact, the Pastor just came back from his trip and last Sunday's sermon was his first after the trip. He was not around in the main service, which was on last Saturday.

In a nutshell, the Pastor was preaching about internal and external factors that hinders us from Christianity. Though this is a religious subject, I believe we can applied in our daily life on other aspects. The external factors are -

1.Spending too much time on electronic devices on apps like facebook and games. 

2. Watching too many movies and dramas till we don't sleep and get enough rest.

3. Focusing too much attention on hobbies and recreations till we pay lesser attention on God's word. 

Anyway, it doesn't mean we shouldn't have a hobby or entertainment to de-stress but do it moderately , else it  may become even more stressful. My Pastor's point is these hindrances will affect our Christian life and spending less time on God's word. It also applies to daily life where we ignored other more priority tasks.

Internal factors -

1. Sins of unforgiveness. 

2. Sins of the flesh and lust like watching pornography, involved in extra-marital relationships and etc.

3. Sins of anxieties, instead we should cast our anxieties on God and knows He cares.

These internal factors definitely weakens us as well as giving us and our close ones more stress and problems.I thought I learnt something from the sermon though it's common sense and  hope these sharings benefits you too!

Meanwhile,  I always love having a nice good dinner in JB before I go back to SG, especially dining at the Pekin restaurant near Taman Sentosa.

I felt bad last Sunday as I didn't attended church services for three weeks, due to some reasons. However, while feeling lousy on that day,  I remembered what my Pastor told me during my baptism class 3 years ago that it's important to have fellowship with my church members, like a family. Most of the time, I am more like a passenger in church, attended service and go back and come back again the following week. I used to join a small care group but the group has been disbanded as most of the members have converted their membership to churches in Singapore. My church is in JB. After remembering what my Pastor said, I felt much better as though attending the church corporate services are important, the fellowship too shouldn't be ignored else it's really no point I go to church week in and week out like a lone ranger.  I will try to join some of the events and seminars in my churches as well as continue to serve the church as ushers and will be taking on additional roles as an audio visual guy.

Over the last Saturday, since its a long weekend, it's a family day out at Tebrau City and we ended up having our dinner at Kinsahi Restaurant after shopping. It's been a while since we dined there. Well, we ordered some sushi, a ramen and a bento. Their food actually not bad, the sushi are very fresh.