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makan | minum | movie








Have a God-blessed exam and a refreshing break~ See you all next trimester!

last CF of the trimester. Makan | Minum | Movie

m a k a n m i n u m m o v i e ( MMMCF ;))

it is hereby announced that we shall be doing the MakanMinum & Main this coming tuesday (20th September ) at 8PM while watching this movie :





it is hereby ALSO announced that the PRAYER must go on, study-week or not. MORE so since it's the study week, actually.

As usual, 7.20 am , tuesday, near the water tower ( or UFO landing site )
need transportation, Y! neo_weeliem.

and then we shall all go for breakfast together, aight?

meanwhile, as the study week approaches, i wish you all good studying, great fellowship and a boxful of miracles.

Pray~!

-trill-

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this week at CF

Gizzards and Other Slimy Stuff

I meandered into a supermarket keeping my marriage secure by accompanying my wife while she shopped. Successful husbanding often calls for sacrificing Saturdays on the altar of family service. All was well until we hit the frozen foods aisle. This store was having a special on whole chickens and, budget conscious family that we are, we decided to stock up. A raw bird in the freezer is worth more than a bucket with biscuits from KFC on the table- and it costs a lot less.

As I walked down the aisle, I saw frozen dead bird after frozen dead bird each with its plucked backside turned upward facing me. Each lay there dead in its own frozen dignity. I was undecided if this was coincidence or if these birds were being allowed to fire off one final salvo at the entire cruel chicken-eating world. Unless you are poultry and are a poultry sympathizer, the whole scene was brutally comical.

Having only considered chickens by their parts and not their feelings, I got an eerie case of the willies when I realized that I was standing in what amounted to a dead chicken morgue. I started feeling foul for these deceased birds. Fortunately, my wave of guilt-stricken empathy gave way to my more practical nature in the guise of hunger pangs. I popped a few chicken corpses into our cart and off we went.

When we got home we decided to thaw one of the birds out and have it for dinner. After it thawed for a few hours, I was given the unceremonious task of skinning the bird. That’s when I found the bag of gizzards and other slimy stuff inside.

I reached inside the chicken’s semi-frozen featherless flesh and pulled out a bag of spare parts.Now this has happened to me when working on cars and appliances – I’m a guy so no problem – but from a chicken? If this had been a grab-bag game, I would have figured that I had just lost. Breasts, legs, thighs and drum-sticks, okay; but gizzards?

I am not even sure what a gizzard does. I looked up chicken parts on the Internet, but all I could find were chicken recipes. Save for Southern cooking, I couldn’t find even one recipe that called for gizzards.

As I began to dismember the bird, I found myself thinking about the body of Christ. The Psalms do say that He’ll cover us with his feathers and wings! Chicken are bred to lay eggs and/or to be eaten. Poultry have a destiny that reaches no higher than my fork. It is not so with the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A body divided against itself cannot stand. When we are divided, as they say, parts is parts. When I found myself looking at the components that make up a chicken there in little lifeless piles of pieces on the cutting board, I suddenly understood the devil’s classing strategy to wage successful war on the Body of Christ: divide and conquer.

There is a mystery and an impartation of life that takes place when Christians work with and serve one another. The hand cannot say to the eye, “I have no need of you.” Just ask the chicken where she would be without her gizzards; probably in serious pain. And God delights to give “less honorable” parts greater honor.

Here are some tasty Truths I learned from my dinner and the Bible. 1 Corinthians 12:14-27 – “For the body does not consist of one member but of many… But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, eacy one of them, as he chose. God has so composed the body, giving the greater honour to the inferiour part, that there may be no discord in the body… Now you are the body of Christ.”

A chicken is greater than its individual parts. Gizzards are important, but so are drumsticks. And preachers are important, but so are givers and intercessors. Whatever part God has given you in His church, be that. We cannot live out the corporate life of Christa here on earth without all being in community with each other, each one doing our God-ordained part.

Gizzards, those people we seldom see but miss when they’re not functioning, are a grace gift to the church. I am not holding up a lowly standard or fleshly unity, but the high and holy standard of True Unity. We, the body of Jesus Christ on this earth, need each other so that we can fulfill the race we were individually given to run. A soul winner needs givers and prayer warriors need soul winners to be their legs and voice to share Christ with the lost. The body needs pastors to nurture and care for new converts.

The kingdom of God is never a solo gizzard, one-man show. But if the gizzards don’t gizz, then who will?

If we labor together, each with our gifts being used in the proper place, we all win. And if not, we end up lifeless chicken parts on the kitchen cutting board of hell. A chicken who forsakes assembling together is just a pile of dysfunctional, dismembered poultry parts. The truth is, parts need parts!

- Bryan Hupperts, A Raven's Gift-

At CF yesterday.

A compilation of yesterday's questions and answers will be up soon.
Meanwhile, there has been new additions to this blogspace. The 'CFMMU Blog-dom' for one. If you wanna be added to that list, leave a msg at Y!mhyshael or at this page itself, yea? thank you.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. - Bono

akan datang : GET REAL # 2

ini dia, yang dinanti-nantikan. (this is it, what we've all been waiting for)

GET REAL #2 : QUESTION a CHRISTIAN



this tuesday. 6 september 05
LIVE at 8pm, CR2047.

Come with your questions, doubts, thoughts.
No bashing, no biting, no 'laughing-at' allowed.
Pure learning and getting to know this Christian belief a little bit better.

more reasons to be there?
- Session facilitated by Pas Sivin Kit. and he's a really nice guy ;).
- Sing-song/game session by WeeLiem.
- You get to learn more about the Christian faith.
- You don't have to be dressed in a pre-set dresscode.
- it's a tuesday night, you're a uni student; it's high time for pursuit of things that build your brain matter and give you a better understanding of who you are in this big big world. -> don't miss this chance.
- get to go mamak with other mamak-kakis. yayy!
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( you can add more yourself ; leave a comment or two, will ya?)

so there. mari-mari semua! (come all!) and if you have doubts, or questions or yada-yadas - leave a comment, and i'll get to you. and if you need transport to CF, msg Y! audreytma.

malaysiana

Msia - i'm lovin it was dressy, warm, prayerful and all that jazz.
we had ppl coming in looking pretty in traditional garb,
we had ppl gathering up in groups of their own home state and praying together.
SELANGOR, PERAK and PENANG all had large contingents.
Perlis, wuz sadly, unrepresented. Where are all you Perlis fellas? come laa =) Kedah, Kelantan, Sabah, & Pahang all had only one rep each.
But it was alright - the prayer must go on.
We prayed for many things; for each state, for the leadership our country, for our social welfare, for economic and political stability, for the church in malaysia. ..

and after that we had supper ( as malaysians do ) at serdang.
t'was a fun night, and at the end of it, nothing be said but this :

"Malaysia - we're lovin it ;"




- hiding behind their flag -


pretty in their 'kurung's.


- but of course we prayed -


- group pic -


"lai lai lai~"