PRAY ON!!

Dear Crusaders!!

An URGENT call to Pray together for STIR concert

Let's claim this verse in Psa 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.

Yes! And let's proclaim together that without prayer, we do not dare to move out to do God's work!!
Date: 27Oct 06
Venue: Outside LT29
Time: 5.15pm - 6pm (after that you can meet your frens who are coming)
Look for: Xinyi (PCom ST from Arts crusade)

See you there!! =)

In His LOve,
Grace Wee
Mass E Com

GIG Prayer Pointers

Dear Crusaders!

it's Thursday! ONE more day to Mass E! i hope all of you are getting as excited and ready for this! Let me thank all of you once again for your faithfulness, interceding! let's continue to press on as we pray for Mass E! :)
do remind your friends to come tomorrow! and continue to keep them in prayer! :)

today, we're praying for the Mass E itself.


- Pray that everything will go on smoothly- technical aspects, transitions, refreshments etc.

- Pray for all involved- STIR, Ushers, Emcees, Technical people, Refreshment people: to be reminded on the focus to bring God glory and to be a testimony.

- Pray for opportunities to speak to our friends during refreshment.

- Most importantly, to give God the utmost glory.

Synchronized Prayer TONIGHT at 11PM!

On Bended Knees,
E-Comm

Dear All :)

it's Wednesday! 2 more days to Mass E!
Please continue to press on... praying!

Today, we'll be praying for the Mass E Committee!
Let's thank God for the Mass E Comm- Grace, Xiang Jun, Evangeline (FM) , Andrew (FM) , Desmond. We thank God for their availibity and willingness to serve in this area. Thank God for their creativity and time while preparing for Mass E!
Let's pray:
- for them as they continue to tie up the rest of the preparation for Friday's Mass E!
- pray against any unnecessary anxiousness.
- that as they continue to prepare, they'll keep in mind their focus, and that's to give God glory through this Mass E!

let's continue to pray for STIR! Here're some prayer requests from STIR:
1. heart and musical prep for the band -fruitful rehearsals and Holy Spirit's empowerment, spiritual protection2. daniel, who is giving the testimony and message, for clarity andconnection with the students

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men."
Col 3:23

Synchonised Prayer at 11pm tonight!

On bended Knees,
E-Comm

GIG Prayer Pointers

Dear Crusaders!!!

it's Tuesday! 3 more days to Mass E!
let's continue to pray!!

today, we're going to pray for STIR!
firstly, let's thank God for their availibity and for each one of them!

- Pray for STIR, as they prepare for the Mass E. For preparation of heart and mind.
- Pray that God will use STIR mightily as His mouthpiece to relate and share the love of God with the students.
- And on 27th October, to have total dependence on God as they avail themselves as vessels for His glory.

"Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit," says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 4:6b

Synchronized Prayer Tonight at 11pm!

On Bended Knees,
E-comm

GIG Prayer Pointers

Dear Crusaders!

Here're today's (Sunday) prayer pointers for our upcoming Mass E on Friday!

Let's go on bended knees together, to pray for our friends.

- Pray that God will soften the hearts of our friends, and for availability on 27th Oct to attend the Mass E.
- Take time to pray specifically for the friends you've invited/plan to invite.
- Pray for receptivity and open hearts as they listen to the testimonies and songs- that God will be the One to touch their hearts.

"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."
Luke 19:10

Call your DG mates and other Crusaders to remind them to pray together for Mass E!

Synchronized Prayer at 11pm tonight! :)

In-God's-Love,
E-comm

F.E.A.S.T

this is a little 'kiasu' publicity cuz if u scroll down on Upcoming events on the left u will see it~~ haha................but this is to tell people to scroll down @ the Upcoming events!!

and in case you are lazy to scroll............then read this!!

There will be a FEAST next week!!
where??? YIH function room
Time?? 6pm~wednesday
What kind of feast? er...actually not food feast =P.......BUT it's going to be a feast of ....
Fellowship..
Encouragement..
Appreciation...
Sharing and
Thanksgiving!!

WOW........with all these 0n the menu how can you not go!!

Circle 25th oct in yr calender and ask yr DG-mates and/or disciples to come down together...

Let's all be there .......together..........before the semester ends!!

cya there!!

-dcomm-

Nothing

Was there ever nothing?

A thought journey on the beginning of time, the origin of the universe and the question of intelligent design...

Have you ever thought about the beginning? What is that, you say? You know - whatever it was that showed up first. Or whatever it was that was here first, at the earliest moment in time. Have you ever strained your brain to think about that?

Wait a minute, you say, isn't it possible that in the beginning there was nothing? Isn't it possible that kazillions of years ago, there wasn't anything at all? That's certainly a theory to consider. So let's consider it - but first by way of analogy.

Let's say you have a large room. It's fully enclosed and is about the size of a football field. The room is locked, permanently, and has no doors or windows, and no holes in its walls.

Inside the room there is... nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not a particle of anything. No air at all. No dust at all. No light at all. It's a sealed room that's pitch black inside. Then what happens?

Well, let's say your goal is to get something - anything at all - into the room. But the rules are: you can't use anything from outside the room to do that. So what do you do?

Well, you think, what if I try to create a spark inside the room? Then the room would have light in it, even for just a moment. That would qualify as something. Yes, but you are outside the room. So that's not allowed.

But, you say, what if I could teleport something into the room, like in Star Trek? Again, that's not allowable, because you'd be using things from outside the room. Here again is the dilemma: you have to get something inside the room using only what's in the room. And, in this case, what's in the room is nothing.

Well, you say, maybe a tiny particle of something will just show up inside the room if given enough time.

There are three problems with this theory. First, time by itself doesn't do anything. Things happen over time, but it's not time that makes them happen. For example, if you wait 15 minutes for cookies to bake, it's not the 15 minutes that bakes them, it's the heat in the oven. If you set them on the counter for 15 minutes, they're not going to bake.

In our analogy, we've got a fully enclosed room with absolutely nothing in it. Waiting 15 minutes will not, in and of itself, change the situation. Well, you say, what if we wait eons? An eon is merely a bunch of 15-minute segments all pressed together. If you waited an eon with your cookies on the counter, would the eon bake them?

The second problem is this: why would anything just "show up" in the empty room? It would need a reason why it came to be. But there is nothing inside the room at all. So what's to stop that from remaining the case? There would be nothing inside the room to cause something to show up (and yet the reason must come from inside the room).

Well, you say, what about a tiny particle of something? Wouldn't that have a greater chance of materializing in the room than something larger like, for example, a football?

That brings up the third problem: size. Like time, size is an abstract. It's relative. Let's say you have three baseballs, all ranging in size. One is ten feet wide, one is five feet wide, and one is normal size. Which one is more likely to materialize in the room?

The normal-sized baseball? No! It would be the same likelihood for all three. The size wouldn't matter. It's not the issue. The issue is whether or not any baseball of any size could just "show up" in our sealed, empty room.

If you don't think the smallest baseball could just show up in the room, no matter how much time has passed, then you must conclude the same thing even for an atom. Size is not an issue. The likelihood of a small particle materializing without cause is no different than a refrigerator materializing without cause!

Now let's stretch our analogy further, literally. Let's take our large, pitch-black room and remove its walls. And let's extend the room so that it goes on infinitely in all directions. Now there is nothing outside the room, because the room is all there is. Period.

This black infinite room has no light, no dust, no particles of any kind, no air, no elements, and no molecules. It's absolutely nothingness. In fact, we can call it Absolutely Nothing.

So here's the question: if originally - bazillions of years ago - there was Absolutely Nothing, wouldn't there be Absolutely Nothing now? Yes. For something - no matter how small - cannot come from Absolutely Nothing. We would still have Absolutely Nothing.

What does that tell us? That Absolutely Nothing never existed. Why? Because, if Absolutely Nothing ever existed, there would still be Absolutely Nothing!

If Absolutely Nothing ever existed, there would not be anything outside it to cause the existence of anything.

Again, if Absolutely Nothing ever existed, there would still be Absolutely Nothing.

However, something exists. Actually, many things exist. You, for example, are something that exists, a very important something. Therefore, you are proof that Absolutely Nothing never existed.

Now, if Absolutely Nothing never existed, that means there was always a time when there was at least Something in existence. What was it?

Was it one thing or many things? Was it an atom? A particle? A molecule? A football? A mutant baseball? A refrigerator? Some cookies?

Stay tuned for the next article called: Something