Last Pic of 2007!

Hey, this pic was taken at 420pm on 31st December 2007;

Why do I look so grumpy? Well, its because I refused to take my afternoon nap nor my morning nap - I think it was the euphoria and the excitement of my 1st New Years Eve!

.............. Yeah right.... as if I knew the difference.... :)

My Baptism on Christmas Day!!!

Merry Christmas to everyone!!

Today, we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our LORD! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE!

Church of the Good Shepherd is the place which we visit on every Sunday for worship. Yes, the moment has finally come for me to be Baptised today.

If you are interested, please read below on Baptism and why is it important in Christianity.

What is being born again here? Being born again is not just quitting one's sinful life and beginning a new life after believing in Jesus, as most people think. Though this would be good, this in itself is not being born again, nor being saved. When the Bible tells us that we must be born again of water and the Spirit, it means that "sinners must repent, believe in the baptism of Jesus and the blood of the Cross, and thereby receive the remission of sin into their hearts and become righteous." In other words, it means being born from above. This is not a change that comes from human beings, but it is a transformation that comes from God.

In 1 John 5:6-7, the Bible says, "This is He who came by water and blood-Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one." Jesus came to this earth by water and blood. Jesus was born of the body of the Virgin Mary incarnated into the flesh of a man, and when He turned 30, He was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. The works of salvation that make us be born again of water and the Spirit began with the birth of Jesus, and as He washed away the sins of the world by receiving His baptism from John the Baptist, the representative of humanity, in the Jordan River.

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定義

洗禮是一個聖潔和神聖的任命行動，在洗禮中水的使用要奉聖父聖子聖靈的名，受洗者有信心的話，就被接入上帝的恩約裡面，罪得赦免，並得永遠的救贖。
洗禮是開始進入基督國度的一個聖禮，受洗歸入三位一體上帝的名下，被接進神的家庭中，成為上帝的兒女。如果受洗者有信心的話，他就必得基督救贖的一切福份。

聖禮

洗禮包含三個表記或特性，如果任何一個儀式都具備上述的三個表記，信義宗就稱之為一個聖禮。首先它是由基督的命令而設立的，其次它包含有一個屬地的元素，第三藉著它而得著屬天的恩賜。這個神聖的命令是我們的主快將升天前所頒布的（太廿八19-20）。所使用的屬地元素是水，屬天的恩賜在洗禮中要賜給受洗者，使他的罪得赦免，並得到永遠的救贖（可十六16）。

嬰孩受洗的理由

以下引證嬰孩受洗的幾種理由，是正確的和必需的：

1. 基督指示我們知道，孩童在萬民中佔很大的數量，祂的門徒為他們施洗，也教導他們。每一個國家都有孩童。雖然在基督的大使命中沒有提到孩童這回事，但對於孩童絕不可排斥之。

2. 洗禮是一個恩典的約，上帝要賜給受罪者得著基督救贖的一切益處。孩童也是罪人，他們需要上帝的恩典，因為他們的出生帶有原罪，所以他們的性情傾向邪惡。從孩童死亡的事實證明他們已經承受了原罪（羅五12）。即使他們在孩童時不會犯知覺的罪，但罪的種子已在他們裡面成長，直到他們長到一定的年紀，就會犯罪作惡行不義。

3. 基督曾吩咐人把小孩子帶到祂面前來（路十八16），所以當我們把他們帶到祂面前受聖潔的洗禮時，乃是遵行祂的命令。以後當他們長大後，教導他們遵守基督吩咐他們的一切事。

4. 基督宣告小孩子「在上帝的國中正是這樣的人」，又說：「凡要承受上帝國的，若不像小孩子，斷不能進去。」（路十八16-17，太十八3）從這些話看到，成年人首先要變成小孩子的樣式，才能受洗及全然地進入上帝的國，所以肯定地說絕不可反對孩童受洗，因為他們藉著這個聖禮，他們可以成為祂的兒女和上帝國的子民。

5. 使徒們論到聖靈和恩典的應許要賜給孩童，像賜給成年人一樣（徒二38-39），所以孩童不能從這個聖禮中被排斥出去，因為在這個聖禮中，他們要得著聖靈和恩典。

6. 割禮是在第八日施行，但它是舊約時代洗禮的預表，藉著這個儀式，嬰孩就被接進上帝子民之中，因此我們以同一理由說，在舊約的規條下，按著上帝的旨意接受嬰孩進入與祂有關的恩約中，在新約中藉著洗禮而進入祂的恩約之中。

7. 從新約聖經的記載顯示出使徒為那些悔改歸正的家庭成員施洗（徒十六15、33；林前一16）。我們可以大膽的假定，在這些家庭中不會沒有孩童的。

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Guess what??!!! I have got lots of presents on this Christmas!! Yippee!!

Tomorrow's the day!!

Tomorrow's the weekend and yippee Daddy will be keeping me and Mummy company. Not sure what we will be doing for tomorrow but as long as we are spending the weekend together, I will be the happiest person in the entire world.

Daddy and Mummy thought of heading downtown, and I will try my outmost to get them to buy me toys for the 1st Christmas that I will be spending with them. Although I have lots of toys at home, no baby will complain that they have too many. hehe

Another Rainy Weekend!!

We were at Trinity Theological College for a wedding. Shortly after the wedding, we headed down to "Delfi" to get Mummy's dress. As Daddy was feeling hungry and there wasn't any nice food in Delfi, we popped by at Orchard Hotel to fill the hunger and at the same time avoid the heavy rain.

There were really nice decorations in the hotel. Yes, Daddy and Mummy had a nice and delicious lunch. From the frustrated look I had in the picture, you can guess that I didn't get to eat anything at all.

A tale of three hands

Daddy took this picture for us - his palm (obviously the largest one there) is below, with Mummy's hand in the middle and my prominent left hand right at the top!

How observant are you? Well, for those with a keen eye - you'll notice that my left hand has a distinctive mole on my third finger...

:P

My new chair

OOOOOoooohhh, look at me in my new chair. It's a gift from Grandpa and Grandma. Mummy told me that it took them the whole day to search for a good chair.

Apparently they want me to learn to walk with it but I think it's a bit too light for me. As I am a very strong boy I can easily lift it up.

A Gift for Mummy on my 9th month!!

Today I turned 9 month old, but we had to head down to Sony Ericsson Workshop at Orchard. Mummy's phone was soaked with my saliva due to me actively playing with it. Other babies tries to send message with their mummy's phone but I am different. I explored the different types of possibilities with the phone.

The Sony Ericsson personnel told mummy that even though her phone can be repaired, there might be a possibility that it will not work anymore after the repair.

Oh well, I will have to pray hard that it works well after the repair and forever and ever AMEN!!

;p

A Rainy Sunday!

Hey there... we went to Centrepoint with Uncle Jon after Church on Sunday... it was originally intended to be a quick 1 hour lunch and short walk-around session... which gradually extended, thanks to the heavy rain, to a rather long 2 hour plus session.

Thank goodness for Haagen Daaz.

Heh heh. Cos the windows and the people walking by managed to sufficiently distract me for approximately 20 minutes... as shown above, I was rather curious as to why there were so many people walking here and there. :)

Well, Uncle Jon bought me a drum-toy-thing that counts 123 and says ABC when I beat it with my hands. Aint' that cool? :P

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hello there... this is me. pretty concussed after a fun day playing with Daddy and Mummy ... am really tired now... so I'll update somemore... later, once I'm done with my good sleep

Safety Zoning

Behind me stands the new gate which helps to prevent me from going to those dangerous regions i.e. the kitchen... Mummy saw me crawling from the living room to the kitchen.

Darn. I should have kept my hands (and feet) to myself... now I've got less space for crawling.

Mummy got me a new toy from "Mustafa" which is made up of plastic alphabets as shown above. Mummy is afraid that the 26 alphabets will go missing within the next few days... so she chained it 3 alphabets by 3 alphabets.

Yes yes, blame it on me. Thats so convenient. :P

Mummy's little laundrymaid

Eh. Here am I, helping Mummy with the laundry... or to be more precise, I'm helping Mummy pick up the clothes hangers that she dropped.

I haven't figured out whats more fun. The hangers in my mouth, or the sound of CLASHING hangers.

Hahaha.

Wong Look Alike Meter!!!