tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64773749610552778672011-04-21T13:33:55.898-07:00Theopneustos. A Greek word made up of two others. "Theo" meaning God, and "pneustos" meaning to breathe or inspire. An adjective that means to be inspired by God. Used only once in the Greek New Testament in 2 Timothy 3:16. Inspiration. How the world is in desperate need of it! In our stressful lives, we need inspiration to carry on the rest of the journey. We find it in many things and from many people. But it ultimately comes only from the One, who alone is the Inspiration, our Inspiration.Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000347642871407524noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477374961055277867.post-48507409062409814892008-11-25T08:30:00.000-08:002008-11-25T08:31:42.078-08:00

Dear friends and family,Thank you for praying for us. We received many encouragement notes from you to say that you are and have been praying. Thank you.It seems my previous email might have been unclear...Josephine is the one suffering from the gastric flu. She's much better today. Diarrhea and vomiting had stopped since last night but she's still pretty weak. Please pray that she'll regain her

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Dear friends and family,Please pray for us...Last Friday night, Joylynn had a freak accident at home. She tripped over the step into the toilet, fell and hit her right cheek on the toilet bowl. Naturally, she was all in pain and tears and her mouth was full of blood. Upon calming her down, we saw that her tooth had cut into her mouth and there was a nasty injury in there. It was 10 pm and I spent

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Today, Joy asked me, "Papa, will we celebrate birthday in heaven?"I thought it was such an innocent question but filled with loads of theological significance! What is our view of heaven? What is our view of life in heaven? More so, what kind of security do we have that assures us that we will not just be able to enter heaven, but have a world of a time there, and even to celebrate our birthday!

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Joy took part in her first ever story telling contest on 30 Aug. It was a faith affair and she really did well. Watch the video clip and you'll see what I mean. She practiced really hard for this for 1 week. And the result? A good consolation prize. She was the final 4 to get her trophy, the remaining 3 being the top 3 prizes. So she really scored very well for a first timer! All credit goes to

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Our boy got another "hit" on his forehead...

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6 years ago, on 7 Aug 2002, we became first time parents. Happy and joyous! For 5 hours. The next 4.5 days were the toughest days we've ever been through. Because our boy was slipping away from us. Hour by hour. Minute by minute. Jo went into the delivery room and gave birth to Samuel Goh Yi En. This was after 8 rounds of artificial injection of water into her womb spread over 4 months, because

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Let our kid's hilarious laughter brighten up your day...

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Look at our super hero benny...He has been the most active 2 year old at home... he runs and jumps and climbs and hops and... bumps his head. In fact this head-bumping has happened so many times we lost count. 3 weeks ago he knocked on his forehead twice in a day and got two bumps, one of each side of the forehead. Just two days ago, when his old injury was healing, he fell from the chair and

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This was taken in Sep 07. Shows how athletic our girl was, and still is... even beating a bigger boy to it...

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Joy was in an art class and he still had in mind to say, "Bye bye jie jie" near the end... complete with a smile!

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As you can see, I'm just getting started on this whole blogging world. The first thing that came to mind was to put our latest newsletter on it. Plus some past stuff I've put up on previous blogs.And for this blog, the theme inspirations came to mind. So to begin with, I think I'll try to talk about who inspired me in my life so far.

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“And the Academic Excellence award goes to…”On 17th May 2008, Benson graduated from the East Asia School of Theology (EAST) with a degree in Master of Divinity in Teaching and Exposition. In addition, he also received the Academic Excellence award. “I owe this award to my family,” he shared at the graduation party. “My wife, Jo, had been supporting me faithfully and sacrificially for the past

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Last September, God gave us a divine appointment, allowing us to meet a couple, Andy and Agnes (not their real names). After getting to know Agnes and helping her with her two year old daughter, Jo built a good friendship with her and discipled her although she was still a pre-believer. Jo shared the gospel with her on a few occasions and on 23rd December Agnes received Christ as her Savior.

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Joy is already in kindergarten and Benedict is 22 months old. They play well together and constantly look out for each other. Joy loves drawing and painting art, is able to read whole books on her own, and has even started memorizing addition tables! She is especially inquisitive now. Recently, she asked us do dogs cry and what is heaven like! After we said heaven is the greatest, most

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Christopher Tan joined the full time staff of Singapore Campus Crusade for Christ in August 2003, at a time when very few men were willing to make such commitments. He served for a year in the NUS ministry and was due to begin his New Staff Training in July 2004 when he was diagnosed with chronic leukemia. We prayed and journeyed with him, looking forward to him being able to join the staff

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Picture #1: The Basin and The TowelJohn 13:3-8; 12-17The setting was that of the Last Supper. Jesus had been the highly regarded leader to the disciples up till this point. It was a highly charged event for the disciples when Jesus entered Jerusalem. To them, Jesus their Messiah and King has finally come to re-establish His kingship and rule. But then Jesus had also been talking about Him going

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The great assurance we had concerning Samuel was the dedication service we could have for him the night before his death. That afternoon, we thought of asking our pastor for advice concerning child baptism or dedication in our case. Instead of just calling us, Pastor Kay Kiong made himself available to us that very evening at the hospital. He came and asked why we wanted to dedicate Samuel to

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The end of II Chronicles and start of Ezra in the Bible told of Israel being exiled to Babylon for 70 years. Before that, Israel had been a supreme power, a nation to be feared, a name to be reckoned with. Following the rule of many evil kings who led the people into sin and unfaithfulness to God, Israel finally collapsed as an independent state.I imagined it must have been the saddest day for

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