The past few days have been a busy time for me, preparing for our church sale. I had made origami earrings and bookmarks and tiny bags to put the earrings in. And my sister-in-law had made cards, using some origami dresses and some other flowers and decorations that she had collected. She had also printed bookmarks and wall posters. And the big day was yesterday Our sale was quite good. We managed to make more [Continued..]
Hallelujah! The Lord is risen!! Happy Easter everyone Though Christmas may the most celebrated festival, Easter is the most important day of the year for a Christian. This is a day to celebrate and rejoice in Christ’s resurrection and His victory over death. The Hymn ‘Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Alleluia!’ is one of the most beautiful hymn sung during the Easter service, that tells the story of the cross. Jesus Christ is risen today, [Continued..]
Today is Good Friday, the day when Christ’s crucifixion and death on the cross is remembered by Christians world over. So why did Jesus Christ have to die on the cross? And rise again on the third day? Our God is a holy God. But we humans are born sinners and God’s holiness demands that sin be punished. As Romans 6:23 says, ‘The wages of sin is death’. This death means spiritual death, a death [Continued..]
According to the Scriptures, Palm Sunday represents the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. People lined up on either side of Jesus and shouted ‘Hosanna’ and placed their robes and palm leaves on the road, in front of Jesus. And every Palm Sunday, it is a tradition in our church to go on a procession around our church block waving palm leaves and singing hymns. As kids, as soon as we got [Continued..]
I had recently been asked to play the piano for a church choir for a competition. Their regular pianist wasn’t able to come and they had tried some other pianist and that also didn’t work out. So finally they asked me to play for them. I am not a very good pianist but since they had only 3 more days before the competition they had no other option! Anyway we got cracking then and decided [Continued..]