Obsession

Don't be obsessed with self. 
That will not lead to the joy of our Lord. 
Jesus
Others 
Yourself

In the car of God...

In the car of God, with His people whom I met for the very first time.

I felt awkward, cos they are one family while I'm an outsider whom they so kindly sent me home.

Suddenly I realize the fastest way to shorten the heart distance is to share what we love and is common to us.

I asked the older lady, "How did you come to Christ?"

Her eyes lit up and like me, she is a first-generation Christian. Then her whole family came to Christ. I am greatly encouraged...I pray to see that happening in mine!

Her husband asked me, "How did you come to Christ?"

Oh...my eyes lit up and...

Suddenly I realize sharing testimony should be so common that it's part of me.

It links the family of Christ together and helps us to encourage one another. God is very real, in each of our testimonies!

Wow, what a lesson in the car of God.😉

Thanks Ian! 😀

A nobody but somebody

A nobody in this world but a somebody to my Creator. That's me. I'm totally contented and greatly comforted. (Luke 12)

The Mission-Steve Green

There’s a call going out
Across the land in every nation
A call to those who swear allegiance to the cross of Christ
A call to true humility, to live our lives responsibly
To deepen our devotion to the cross at any price

Let us then be sober, moving only in the Spirit
As aliens and strangers in a hostile foreign land
The message we’re proclaiming is repentance and forgiveness
The offer of salvation to a dying race of man

Chorus:
To love the Lord our God
Is the heartbeat of our mission
The spring from which our service overflows
Across the street
Or around the world
The mission’s still the same
Proclaim and live the Truth
In Jesus’ name

As a candle is consumed by the passion of the flame
Spilling light unsparingly throughout a darkened room
Let us burn to know Him deeper
Then our service flaming bright
Will radiate his passions
And blaze with holy light
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Nothing glamorous about being HIV-infected

This letter was sent to ST Forum but was not published.

It is courageous of Mr Ajmal Khan (AJ), aged 26, to go public with his HIV status in a bid to dispel myths and stereotypes ('HIV made me appreciate my life and family a lot more', says gay Singaporean'; 3 July).

Yet it is a sobering fact that he is one of the 7,140 residents in Singapore with HIV infection as of end 2015, of which 1,816 had died.  Despite much public education on HIV/Aids prevention, there were 232 new HIV cases among homosexuals last year, a 27.5 per cent increase from 2014 as compared to 139 in 2009. 

Many like AJ, have this invincibility mindset that they will not be HIV infected despite engaging in such high-risk sexual behaviour. 

  

According to the update by Ministry of Health (MOH), sexual intercourse is the main mode of transmission, of which 51% is from homosexual transmission and 8% from bisexual transmission. 93% were male.

What kind of targeted outreach efforts towards youth are Action for Aids and Oogachaga calling for? Use a condom when it is a fact that it may be more likely to break during anal intercourse because of the greater amount of friction and other stresses involved?  

Even if the condom doesn't break, anal intercourse is very risky because it can cause tissue in the rectum to tear and bleed. These tears allow disease germs to pass more easily from one partner to another. The overabundance of 'safer' sex messages also lead to decreased condom use, not uncommon with an invincibility mindset. 

Eventually, it is not the use of condoms that will stop HIV infection. It is stopping risky, unnatural sexual behaviour that will prevent an epidemic. 

AJ and his mother were featured recently in Pink Dot's promotion videos. The video showed his mother's great despair upon knowing her son's condition. 

She acknowledged that there is no cure for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). 

HIV infection not only required one to be on long-term medication but also takes a toll on the patient's family and on the society. Every parent should love his child but not accept any behaviour that is destructive. Love has a moral compass.  

While we should be compassionate to anyone who contracts a disease, the general public should not be made to pay for the 97% of HIV infection cases that are transmitted through sexual intercourse. 

The message has to be clear that there is nothing glamorous about being infected with HIV. 

Certain stigmas are good, in that they inform us what behaviour is desirable or acceptable in a society.   

Working on the root cause of HIV infection is the way to stop new cases from increasing.