4.18.10 to Christian Assembly Eagle Rock

I FINALLY, finally, finally got to pay a visit to Tommy Walker's church... been wanted to go since last yr! >< And I was fortunate to see Tommy Walker leading worship :) I posted some of my thoughts to my qulnb blog, here I'm just gonna talk about the sermon. :) It was by Tom Hughes.... I'm sure he's not the pastor there, and nor is he the Tom Hughes I thought I knew. His topic was counterfeit gods - the continued 2nd sermon to his series I guess. He states that we all begin to look alike what anything we like, he used dog lovers as examples.. which was so true =p so if it's power, sex, or reputation that you want, you'll become more like 你心裡所想的. Scary thought isn't it?! We resemble what we revere... sometimes it doesn't appear right away, because it develops over the years... like the polaroid camera, it develops over a period of time. How do you get to see the pic that comes out of it? You shake it.... more rapidly. And he links it to talk about us, how we sometimes need to be shaken in order to see what my lens has been focusing on. Should you just 'hang on' to the things, or instead, use our singular focus which we were created for - on only Jesus alone. Shaking will make us see that only the One true God gives unshakable promise, thus we become the unshakable we can be. 忘了他exactly怎麼說得, 大概就是, 要等到 神來shake時, 我們才發現, 最重要該留下的其實只有耶穌, 或是...... 我們一直要讓耶穌成為我們唯一重要的重心. Live as when Jesus is the only thing you have left...... :)


Exodus 20:3 Do not worship any other gods besides me.
Psalms 115:4-8 We need to rightly see & rightly hear....
Hebrews 12:25-29 .... the only eternal things will be left (here refers to the previous verse - heaven)
Joel 3:16 ... the earth and heavens will begin to shake. But to his people of Israel, the Lord will be a welcoming refuge and a strong fortress.
1 John 3:1-3 ... what we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like, for we will see him as he is... 只要愛 神就能變得更像 神... 當然我知道不只這樣, 但是... 你喜歡什麼就會變得像那個東西/人, 所以.... 愛耶穌可以更像耶穌!!!!!! =D


At the end I think it was Jacob Park who did the ministry song; I like its lyrics - "I will not be shaken."
So I'll stand and trust
I'll stand in faith
I will not be shaken


Whatever you choose, it will either ruin you or rescue you - I think he's the senior pastor who concluded it... and I will love JESUS!