Contextualized Music (Thai-Loa-Western)

Ranad is Thai traditional musical instrument.
It is now played with the western band.

....Let's try listening to;

LAOPAN RANAD CONCERTO
with Bangkok Symphony orchestra Conducted by Shardad Rohani BSO

Ranad contest (from the movie "โหมโรง" THE OVERTUNE)

Ranad & Piano (from the movie "โหมโรง" THE OVERTUNE)

Psalm 121

A song of soul to thank you Lord "My helps" come from you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2nQALWDStA

From Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir "My Help" Psalms 121

Reflective Judgment

"The Reflective Judgment Model
describes development in reasoning about such issues in late adolescence through adulthood"

All is quoted from;
http://www.umich.edu/~refjudg/reflectivejudgmentmodel.html

The Thinker; bronze statue by Auguste Rodin

-Piaget (1960, 1970 [1956], 1974): assumptions of stage-related development; the processes of assimilation and accommodation account for changes in the conceptual structures used to understand the world

-Kegan (1982, 1994): evolution of the self; interpersonal relationships as a developmental continuum

Love Letter

Dear,
Hi, it's ME, your God.
I gave the 10 Commandments not to shame you but to tell you who you are to me.

1. I promise to be faithful and committed to you. I know you' re faithful and committed to Me too, no one else
2. I live in you. You are the perfect reflection of Me.
3. You can call me "Dad". You are My daughter.
4. I will always finish what I start. Stop Worrying. You can trust Me.
5. They love you... really, they do.
6. You' re not a murderer.
7. You're not an adulterer
   
8. You' re not a thief.
9. You' re not a liar.
10. What do you not have that I have not provided for you? Please tell Me if I have not given you enough.
    

(Exodus 20)
I love you.

Yours Truly,

God, Father

Taken from Andrea Yang's handout in Ladies' fellowship, Nov 2009

If you love Thai Food

http://www.allthaifood.com/
Authentic Thai Food Recipes online

Enjoy your cooking and tell me, what did you try?

Walking on the duckweed

30 years ago,
on one Sunday in summer,
my whole family went to our land in suburb

It was a garden full of mango trees and coconut trees. The first time that all of us were excited to see the garden and pick the fruits.

As the youngest child, I desired to lead, to be a pioneer

“Come, come, follow me, I' ll show you the path”

I confidently walked and joyously sang

“la la la...ha ha.”...selah (silence in Psalm)

“..help me” (quiet)

Without experience! My body sunk into the slush.(a garden gutter)

“What’s up?” My brother gave me his hands.

I climbed up with the duckweed in that embarrassing moment.

They laughed at me along the way back home, but we had fun

A new life of Cicada

Cicadas emerge after 13 or 17 years underground
“periodical cicadas”-- only found in North America -- have very long life cycles and their life cycles are synchronized.


In 1956, 1.5 million cicadas per acre were counted! (study done in forested floodplains near Chicago)
In 1990, people were shoveling them off their driveways!

They can be loud and just annoying you with the 104-106 decibel level
(louder than motorcycle-100 db and lower than Rock Concert 120db)

Cicadas do not sting, bite or carry diseases.You can eat them.

FACTS
Cicadas live above ground 4-6 weeks
Cicadas are not locusts which are grasshoppers.
With the huge numbers of its emerging, what John the Baptist ate might be cicadas rather than locusts. Do you think so?

SERMON WRITER

Resource for Lectionary Preaching; http://www.sermonwriter.com/

IF YOU USE THE LECTIONARY , you have probably looked at the lessons for the week and wondered,
"WHAT CAN I SAY that is faithful to these texts and relevant to my congregation?"

SERMONWRITER HELPS YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION
providing abundant materials
to spark your imagination – to get you started – to save you time

How about Devotion?

Highly recommended with the prayer that

Oswald Chambers' teachings

will help you grow in your walk with Christ.

My Utmost for His Highest; http://www.myutmost.org/

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917), a Scottish minister & teacher teaching on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day

A daily devotional collection of his teachings compiled by his wife into a daily devotional format.

Taken from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. (c) l935 by Dodd Mead & Co., renewed (c) 1963 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn., Ltd., and is used by permission of Discovery House Publishers, Box 3566, Grand Rapids MI 4950l. All rights reserved.

Recommended for sermon

Preaching resources
to get some others' view

Excellent Exegesis on the Web!

http://www.lectionary.org/

Thanksgiving 2009

The most popular questions in this week

"Where are you going?" or
"What are you going to do?"