two years, part i

i went back to the av library last sunday (after a seemingly long hiatus from my supposed 'treasure trove'), borrowed 3 sermons - 2 which i missed due to me hopping from hall to sanctuary, and well the last one, that's special... it's a recording of 23 jan 2005.

and today's 23 jan 2007!

so it marks 2 years, not great in quantitative terms but it's a milestone alright. i love wesley, and i'm not saying it like a starry eyed optimist. but in retrospect it's the perfect church for me, and it must have only been by His provision that i ended up here (and not the church opposite raffles city, hehe). it was the first i visited, and there was this inexplicable sense of warmth that i felt, despite it being a big church. and maybe like what weewee (my dpl course facil) said, 'this is THE one (church)', you just know somehow.

i mentioned it before, who led worship, who preached the sermon - yes tania i still think she's quite funky.

listening to the recording now (playing in the background), i can remember how i was touched by God's love that very day. then (and actually now too) with my little bible knowledge, God portrayed in the OT seemed much harsher than God portaryed in the NT... but this sermon gives a new insight, a fresh view that indeed God (even though we know by theory that God is the same yesterday, today and forever) is the same in both OT and NT.

and i was touched so much by the passion of (yes that funky pastor) the delivery of the sermon. passion not for the audience of 600, but for truly an audience of one. love from the heart, and only because He first loved us.

i just hope my blog isn't searchable on search engines, so far it's not on the famous g search engine, but i found it through another quite popular search engine (oh no!). anyway i don't think pastors are that bohliao to search their own names... it's just odd reading about yourself on someones blog, don't you think?

oddly my blog seems to seem more holy somehow. to be honest i used to try to steer away from 'christian related posts', but if my primary purpose of my blog is to archive milestones (at least some) then it's more than difficult to steer away. but i stress again, doesn't mean that this blog seems holy that i am holy, i think the closest i can get to being holy is being holey.

as in HOLE-Y. colloquial for lots of holes, because i truly leak! and all i can do is ask that the rate of flow in will be far greater than the rate of outflux.

part i because there's more to say, but just no time to write. 2plus am and i'm still trying to figure out my biz finance question. shall snooze very very soon though...

watch out for part ii!

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