Why We Celebrate Christmas.

Christmas is about His glory
Christmas is about His grace
Christmas is a gift of love
Our Father gave us
More than just another story
About a special time and place
Christmas is a time to lift
A song of praise

Chorus

For God is with us
And we celebrate
The glory of His Presence
Christ has come
To fill our hearts with love
He came to save us
King of kings and Lord of lords
His Name is Jesus
God with us
Emmanuel has come

Angels fill the night with singing
God is reaching out to man
Bringing us a gift of hope
In Christ our Savior
More than just a time of giving
This is God's eternal plan
And Christmas is the reason
We can sing again

X-Ray Vision (Lust)

Q: Finish this sentence: "it's springtime, and that means..."

A: Cute girls with short skirts.

Q: Wow, that was quick. I thought you might say baseball or allergies or warm weather.

A: I figured you wanted me to be honest.

Q: Well, Okay... So, the girls, huh? That's it? That's what you think of?

A: How could a guy not think of girls this time of year? They're all been going to tanning booths. Dieting. Exercising. Getting ready for bikini season. Now, here it is - the first bit of warm weather and boom! They're everywhere. Short shorts. Midriffs. It's like they throw it at your face.

Q: Yeah, it is kinda of hard to look away. And it seems like it gets worse every year.

A: Tell me about it. They don't leave much to your imagination.

Q: Which is why, in my book, it's a good idea to try to taming the old imagination, if you get what I mean.

A: Yeah, well, that's easier said than done.

Q: Are you struggling?

A: Well...yeah. Doesn't every guy?

Q: I would say it affects all guys some of the time, and some guys all the time.

A New View:

It's flat-out wrong the way some women dress sometimes. And it doesn't help when some Christian girls follow suit. But the fashion industry isn't going to change for the better soon. And sometimes peer pressure is involved. All we can do is to try, with God's help, to discipline our thoughts.

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will." ~Romans 12:2

"I made a covenant with my eyes, not to look lustfully at a girl." ~Job 31:1

• Appreciating a beautiful girl isn't wrong. God made us to respond to beauty.
• Lust is the problem - undressing women with your mind, viewing them as sexual objects instead of priceless creatures made in the image of God.
• According to Romans 12:2, your mind can be disciplined. Tempting thoughts can be turned away, certain mental habits can be changed, and certain positive images can be summoned to replace negative ones.
• Remember, behind that gorgeous female body is a person with fears, dreams, hope and goals. She's probably someone's daughter, sister and someone's future spouse. That's why, it's important to treat her the way you want other men to treat the women you'll eventually marry. (That puts everything into a new perspective doesn't it?)
• Besides, one day when you get married, you can go up to her ex-boyfriends and thank him for not committing pre-marital sex.

Leon Lim

We Are That Light. (Repost)

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will." ~ Romans 12:2

At these times, peer pressure is everywhere, they're are totally unavoidable. Most of the time, just the sake of impressing our friends, we follow what they say and what they do. Sometimes, they're even teenagers that get into drugs, alcohol, pornography, smoking, masturbating, pre-marital sex etc. Just because their friends are doing it. As simple as this, this way, teenager's lives are being destroyed. This is how Satan is trying to destroy us, he's preventing us from rising for our generation.

The Lord said,"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by man.''~ Matthew 5:13

We are the salt of the world, Satan is right now, using everything and anything that means neccesary to damage thrising generation. But, nevertheless, the prophecy of God ruling over all things is going to be fulfilled. Satan is working harder than ever to stop us, and are we just going to let Lucifer poison our minds, and just lead us to eternal burning in Hell?

Stop being deceived! You see, whatever it maybe, Satan's strongest in his arsenal, is actually 'deception'. Even from the time of man, we were already deceived by Satan. Remember, how Satan lied to Eve so she'll eat the fruit? and then later giving it to Adam so their purity will be compromised? You see, even teenagers these days, are just full with life responsibilities. And some teenagers, even resort to suicide to solve their problems. Believe me, everyone who commits suicide will go to hell.

This is because, by simply taking out our own lives away, we're rejecting the salvation that our wonderful God has given to us. When someone commits suicide, he's also 'expediting' his journey to Hell. I'll give an example, your examination is coming, and you did not study, and when exam time came, you simply gave up, not even trying, thus the result would mean that you'll fail, no? If we look it at a different way, it'll mean exactly as not putting up our armor of God which is God's word, and then later in life, we reject the "exam", and we'll go to Hell. Life is like an exam(well sort of), if we reject the exam, it'll also mean that we're rejecting life and God's salvation. Then, we'll be more than worthy to go to Hell.

Stop being decieved! in Romans 12:2, it also tells us that our mind CAN be disciplined. Negative thoughts can be changed to positive thoughts, and tempting thoughts can be erased. Now, that'll make life so much better, isn't it? We should be the trendsetter in living for Jesus, instead of a follower who lives like the world.

We are the rising generation of this world, we are the salt of the world, we are the light of the world, the Rising generation WILL rise up to stand up for God and his word. When the world perishes, only 2 things will remain, the souls of men and God's word.



Let me tell you the story of Gideon.....



The land of Israel was full of sinful and cowardice people, and God allowed Israel to be conquered by the Midianites for 7 years. And then there was a famer by the name of Gideon, one day, while he was beating wheats, an angel of God suddenly, appeared to him and said : "The Lord is with you, mighty warrior." Gideon was a weak and poor farmer nevertheless, and his clan is the weakest in Mannesseh, therefore it'll be natural for him to think that God choose the wrong person, and he did. But God said: "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together." and please note that Gideon from there on, became a one-man army. "strike down all the Midianites TOGETHER.".....



"Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew the trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him." ~ Judges 6:34


When the Lord fills us with the Holy Spirit, we can do many wonderful and great things. For instance, just as the Lord commanded Gideon, he commanded Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the black people in America to demand equal civil rights in the country. And so he did....



Gideon was ready of the uprising against the Midianites... And then God commanded Gideon to gather 22,000 men (for the army), but God felt that was too many, and so God commanded Gideon to tell the men which were scared, uninterested and unwilling to lay down their lives to leave.

And 2,000 men were left. And God still felt unsatisfied with the number, so he told Gideon to command the soldiers to go to the lake to drink water, then God kept an watchful eye, many soldiers put down their swords and spears and many were lapping water like a dog at the creek, while a small number knelt down while holding their spears and gently cupping the water into their mouths like civilized men. And these men, came up to the number of 300, and God choose these men for the war, and the rest packed up their bags, and went home to drink tea.

When the time of war came (night), Gideon gave every each of the 300 men, a torch to put inside a pitcher, and a trumpet. And in the middle of the war, God commanded Gideon to tell the soldiers to shatter the pitcher, and then blow the trumpet. And then shouting: "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!". And as the uncountable amounts of bright light suddenly emerging from the battlefield, and the very powerful power of the sound of the trumpets. Then, all the Midianites ran to and forth, crying out in confusion, and killed each other with their swords in the turmoil. And the vast number of the Midianites warriors was reduced to almost nil, and they fled far away.


You see, my friends, that light emerging from the darkness, that light that suddenly caused all the Midianites to kill themselves is our faith for our God, and that powerful power of the trumpet is our will to Stand up for God's word, and rise up against Satan.

We're the rising generation of this world, and our sole duty is to obey God and stand up for God and fight against sin. That light can be also imagined as our faith in the middle of darkness, which is sin.

Imagine a gargantuan crowd of mixed people from all sorts of nations, and every faithful Christian were to be given a torch, and when you turn off the 'lights', suddenly there's darkness, but out of nowhere a vast number of lights suddenly emerge from the darkness, and then slowly the darkness itself is being consumed by the blinding light. And then the darkness is no more, but what remains is just the Word of God and the souls of Men.

Are we going to let the greater future, be endangered by Satan's pathetic lies? Are we just going to sit on our arses, while the world is being engulfed over sin and poverty? Are we going to let Satan rule over the world?

Then let's together, as the rising generation of this world, stand up for God's word and send Satan back to HELL! Let's do our part to welcome Jesus back, lay out the red carpet for Jesus!

Leon Lim

p.s. This is a repost.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch, in this lecture, he describes he has pancreatic cancer, and the doctors said he only had a few months left of good health. Hence, the titled lecture, "The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch died of the age of 47 in 25th July 2008.

In this lecture, he talked about:

1. Achieving own childhood dreams

2. Enabling other people's dreams

3. Lessons learned in life

Here are some good lines highlighted from the lecture:

Arrogance can limit what you can achieve in life.

Brick walls are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

Don't bail; the best gold is at the bottom of the barrels of crap.

Don't complain, just work harder.

"Head fake":

If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.

End Times

These are easily the most exciting days to be alive, not just because of breathtaking advances in technology and science, but because we twenty-first-century Christians have more reason than any generation before us to believe that Christ will return to take us to His Father's house.

We are not the first generation to think like this, of course, for history reveals that many interpreted the events of their day as fulfillments of end-time prophecies. In some cases their date setting and speculation turned off more people than it inspired , but at least they were studying the Scriptures in an attempt to properly discern the times. Many of them sincerely longed for Christ to end the moral corruption and deterioration of their age by ushering in His kingdom of righteousness. All Christians consider such a possibility an infinite improvement on this war-weary and sin-cursed world.

We should not be surprised that those of past generation were confused about end-time events, for events, for even Daniel, one of the greatest of the Hebrew prophets, was commanded to "shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end" (Daniel 12:4;the "time of the end" refers to the days just before the beginning of the Tribulation, up to and including the seconds coming of Christ).

One reason for their confusion is that the sealing of end-time events made it more difficult to understand the "signs of the times." The "unsealing" or ability to understand end-time prophecy, according to Daniel, would wait until " many shall run to and fro, and the knowledge shall be increased" ~Daniel 12:4. Hardly anyone doubts that ours is a day when people are "running to and fro" and knowledge has increased. Both secular knowledge and the knowledge of prophetic truth have increased tremendously in this century alone. We believe we are on the verge of obtaining even greater prophetic insights than at any other time in the last two millennium.

That others before us were wrong about the nearness of the Lord's return should not deter us from searching the Scriptures, now that some of the end-time prophecies are being unsealed. The ability to rightly evaluate the signs in our times increasing almost daily, from the Israel by Russia and her Arab allies, to the emergence of China, many other events - all part of the end-time prophetic tapestry.

The technological capabilities of this generation permit us to see the fulfillment of events that were impossible just one generation ago. Christ could come today, and no prophecy of the end times necessary for His coming would go unfulfilled.


Soon enough, I will do a post regarding the Mayan Calendar, and about the people who are taking advantage of its existing popularity in order to gain money. Same concept as the Da Vinci Code. The Mass Media is very powerful, and it'll brainwash you.

Leon Lim
credits to "Left Behind" novel.

爱

How can you say you love God, but you don't love your neighbor as you would love yourself?

Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' ~ Matthew 22:37-39

Picture this.

Dear readers, just wanted to post up some beautiful pictures which I have taken from this past year or so during some memorable trips around the Peninsular Malaysia. (Pulau Tioman and Melaka) To give thanks to God's creations. And these are some of my favorites. Enjoy. Feel free to comment.

林

The Zhou Dynasty Emperor conferred the surname “Lim” or “Lin” in Mandarin to one of his subjects in 1122 BC in Hebei Province, Central China. Over the years, his descendants migrated to various parts of china, especially to the south. Years later, during the Soong Dynasty, a member of the 117^th generation of the Lim clan was sent from Fujian (Hokkien) Province to Hainan Island to serve as the governor. The first descendant of the Lims in Hainan Island that settled down in our present village (Ooi Siang Sui) comes out of the 121^st generation. I belong to the 136^th generation.

Great Great Grandfather became the District Governor of the Lui Chew Peninsular, just north of Hainan Island. He returned to Hainan Island after his term there. Before this, he worked as a school teacher and post master. Most of the Ooi Siang villagers were farmers and were illiterate. They addressed Grandfather as “Kwa Kong” or “Grand Officer” in respect of his position as the district governor.

The name of our village “Ooi Siang” originally meant “the village of the Ooi’s”. Great Great Grandfather changed the written text to mean “Grand or Great Village” – same intonation but different text meaning. The village was founded by Ooi’s but they had been overwhelmed by the Lim’s. Other settlers in the village carried various other surnames that included “Han”, “Foo”, “Tan”, and “Goh”.

What's your family history?

Leon Lim

To The Big Brother I Never Had.

Remember the day, where we first sparked our relationship? The conversations we had on the bus on the back from our church camp. It was from there we already established quite a number of things in common that we share. I vividly remember going up to that lonely guy around the end of the camp, sitting together at the bus, learning about each other. I even remember many of things we talked about that led us to become truly friends. And even to this day, I am very grateful that we became friends.

From that day onwards, we've been rather 'bagai isi dengan kuku'. I thank you for being there when I had my problems, and I enjoyed being the shoulder to 'cry on' when you had yours. It seems that we've shared many things with each other within this 2 years or so. Nothing can express or describe the wonderfulness of the times talking to you, sharing, comforting etc.

I give thanks to God for giving us that opportunity to become friends.

I give thanks for the time spent creating a stronger bond between us, tightening that invisible rope little by little.

I give thanks to the advices and time sacrificed to be with me.

I give thanks to the knowledge given to me from you.

I give thanks to the emotional support, confidence, rational thinking given to me.

I give thanks that we've able to learn things from one another.

I give thanks that most of the time we see eye to eye.

I give thanks for things we have in common.

I give thanks for a big brother I never had.

I hope you'll have a wonderful experience in the UK. It pains me that I'll have to see you again in person in 9 months time. To me, you're not a friend, but a wonderful brother. God bless you.

Love,

your bro.

Is It Sex?

Q: So you're telling me it's not really sex?

A: Think about it. There's no chance she can get pregnant from it. And she'll still be a virgin. I'm just talking about a safe and fun way to show our feelings for each other.

Q: And she likes the idea?

A: Well... It took a couple weeks of convincing, but she's finally warmed up to it.

Q: I'd say you're rationalizing the whole thing - and deep down you know it.

A: No, it's just a matter of where you draw the line. It's no different than kissing or holding hands. It's physical contact that makes you feel good. And it's something we are both ready for.

Q: I can tell you think you're ready for it. But it sounds to me like you've been pressuring her to go against her morals.

A: Hey, I'm not forcing her to do anything. What? It's not like I'm holding a gun to her face?

Q: If what you're talking about is no big deal, if it isn't really "sex", then tonight when you go over to her house, why don't you do it in the living room, right in front of her parents?

A: What? That's stupid.

Q: You're right. It would be stupid. And you will never do that in a million years, because you know that it is a big deal, and it is a sexual act.

Sex is more than just an act of intercourse. Sex is any physical relationship in which you share your body with someone else in order to experience any form of sexual pleasure. There no such things as "loopholes" in God's plan for us all that makes certain form of sex "OK" before marriage.

Don't misunderstand: There's nothing inherently wrong with sex. God created it. There's nothing wrong with sexual desires either. That's the way God designed our bodies to do.

However, you have to understand that sex is a sacred, special event that bonds two people together in a deep and permanent way.

It is God's will that you will maintain sexual purity. That each of us should learn to control our bodies in a way that is holy and honorable. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this does not reject man, but rejects God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." ~Hebrews 13:4

So dear readers, if you think whether or not what you're doing is "crossing the line", think about, Am I doing this to give or get?

Leon Lim

Ghastly colours.

Hey guys,

I have ordered a guitar I seriously need you guys to help me choose which colour, 'cause each one looks extremely ghastly. Apparently, I ordered the guitar expecting I'll get the blueburst, but it's a 2008 model, and they only have the 2009 models in stock. And all of them are rubbish. But I have no choice and I need help. I have narrowed down to 2 colours.

(Vintage Violin)

(Dark Cherry Sunburst)

And yes, it was my own volition that I chose this model.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to...............

to this Poserlike-Constipating-Frenchy-Toast-Gangsta,

Hey bro. 25th July huh. Hmmm...... You're 15 days younger than me. Muahahahahahahaha. Anyways, it's been great being your buddy for like since that chick almost made you drink vodka until it burned a hole through your oesophagus? Yeah haha, well keep rocking, burning and constipating for Jesus, bro! On behalf of all Nst dudes, Happy Birthday, Mr. Peugeot!

Leon Lim

Clash of the German Titans part 2

Merc SLK 350 vs BMW sDrive35i vs Audi TT 3.2 V6 Quattro

------ Mercedes SLK 350:

SLK 350

Engine: 3.5 litres, V6 engine

Drivetrain: Rear Wheel Drive

Horsepower: 272bhp@6500

Torque(ib/ft): 265@4900

Top Speed: 280km/h

Acceleration (0-100km/h): 5.4 seconds

The SLK 350 comes standard with Mercedes' 7G-TRONIC Sport seven-speed automatic. The transmission has a manual control mode operated via F1-style paddle shifters. SLK -- which means Sportlich (sporty), Leicht (light) and Kurz (short) -- is positioned below the considerably more expensive SL roadster. The SLK was actually Mercedes first hardtop convertible roadster, predating the SL hardtop. Priced at RM 523,888*

----BMW Z4 sDrive35i:

Z4

Engine: 3.5 litres, 6 in-line cylinders, Twin Turbocharges

Drivetrain: Rear Wheel Drive

Horsepower: 306bhp@5800

Torque(ib/ft): 300@5000

Top Speed: 294km/h

Acceleration (0-100km/h): 5.0 seconds

The more powerful twin-turbo sDrive35i has a maximum output of 300 horsepower, arriving at 5,800 rpm. The engine achieves peak torque of 300 pound-feet throughout a broad rev range from 1,400 to 5,000 rpm. The sprint to 100km/h takes just 5.0 seconds.

BMW says the motor is the first inline-six to come with twin turbochargers, High Precision Injection, and an all-aluminum crankcase. Weighing just 355 pounds, the motor owes its light weight to its composite magnesium/aluminum crankcase, cylinder head cover made of a special synthetic material and lightweight camshafts with aluminum VANOS control unit. RM558,800*

-----Audi TT 3.2 V6 Quattro

TT

Engine: 3.2 litres, V6 cylinders, with Quattro technology.

Drivetrain: Quattro (All-Wheel)

Horsepower: 250bhp@6300

Torque (ib/ft): 236@3000

Top Speed: 282km/h

Acceleration (0-100km/h): 5.2 seconds

Today, the TT uses an onboard controller area network (CAN) to link all the sensors and control units so the engine and transmission are privy to what's going on with the brakes, stability control, and other systems. Twelve different sensors help the transmission decide when to shift while running in the automatic- or sport-shift mode (and when to block shifts to prevent overrevving or stalling of the engine when the driver is flicking the shift paddles or rowing the lever manually). All shifts are then performed with perfectly matched engine revs. Gentle launches are comfortable, although experts will note that the wet multiplate clutch doesn't launch quite as imperceptibly as a conventional automatic's torque converter can. RM498,800*

In my opinion, these cars are meant to be owned by the more well to do upper echelon of the population. But we can always dream right? BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Porsche, Renault, Volvo, Alfa Romeo, Lotus, etc. These makes are all good. We dream of driving these engineering masterpieces, and one day we will. Now, we dream.

Who wins this time? Merc SLK 350? Audi TT? BMW sDrive35i? Vote in the poll on the top left corner for the blog.

~Leon Lim

*net selling price exclude road tax, insurance, & registration related charges