Bethel Tidings · ethel Methodist hurch, angalore Bethel Tidings 21&22, ethel Nagar 1st Main, Off Kodigehalli Road, K.R.Puram Hobli, ANGALORE -560 036. Website: bmcbangalore.org

Bethel Methodist Church, Bangalore

Bethel Tidings

21&2 2, B eth el N ag ar 1st M ain , O ff Ko d ig eh al l i R o ad , K .R .P u ram H o b l i , B AN G AL O R E - 560 036.

W eb site: b mc b an g alo re.o rg

Pasto r: Rev. T. David Livingston

Cell: 99865 26450 E-mail: pasto [email protected]

(For private circulation only )

A B I LINGUAL MONT HLY BULLETIN O F BET HEL MET HO DIST CHURCH

Volume 8-8 August 2014

Bread of LifeBread of LifeBread of Life

John 6:35John 6:35John 6:35

Bethel Methodist Church, Bangalore 2

Annual Camp (Kids) - 2014

Annual Camp (Youth) - 2014


Pastoral Letter Dearly beloved,

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Je-sus Christ. The English Annual camp has brought in a new strength to our families and the Lord mightily used the speakers among the families, youths, teens and kids. I am glad that this time the college students from other states also participated. My hearty thanks to all the teams who prayerfully and tire-

lessly worked behind these efforts.

Jesus said to them, “ I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not

hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. John 6:35.

Scripture is considered as the language that God used to speak to His people; He still chooses to do so. God connects to us by his Spirit through his written words. Right understanding of the Scripture and correct doctrine help us to decode the mind of God and encode them into ours. The instructions, encouragements and warnings in the Scriptures are not time-bound; they are relevant to us every day. They work like an anchor and hold us in the rough times. Jesus expressed it in the best way possible by saying, “I am the Bread from heaven,” - meaning He remains in us through His words. King David

often mentions in the Psalms as to how Scriptures directly work in our lives.

Let us therefore eat the Bread of Life to remain in Christ and grow in divine image. We need new solid food, not the old light fluids. With earlier primal understanding of Scriptures we have come to this spiritual level, but the old food and its strength might have been exhausted. As we mature, we need new food everyday - Scriptures and new meditations - which gives new orientation, new understanding, new insights, new direction, new faith, new instruction, more deeper and stricter that would build us and lead us to the next level of growth. It is only through Scriptures, bonded by the indwelling Spirit of God within us, we build our spiritual body further. May we survey and learn about this wondrous aspect of the functions of Scriptures in our life

with new insights this month.

India will be celebrating 67th Independence day on the 15th of August 2014. It is an opportunity to pay our respects to our country on that day and pray for our nation. Please join the programmes prepared for that day. The College students Sunday celebrated on the second week is a new initiative and we want to make the Church life more beneficial for the students around us. May God continue to bless all the activities and ministries of our Church

this month.

Grace be with you always.

Rev. T. David Livingston


ப ோதகர் மடல் கிறிஸ்துவுக்குள் பிரியமானவர்களே,

நமது ஆண்டவரும் இரட்சகருமாகிய இளயசு கிறிஸ்துவின் நாமத்தில் அன்பின் வாழ்த்துக்கள். நடந்து முடிந்த வருடாந்திர முகாம் (ஆங்கிலம்) நமக்கு புது பபலத்ததக் பகாடுத்திருக்கிறது. சிறுவர்கள், வாலிபர்கள் மற்றும் குடும்பங்களுக்கான ளதவ பசய்தியாேர்கதே ளதவன் வல்லதமயாக பயன்படுத்தினார். இம்முதற அளநக கல்லூரி மாணவர்கள் பங்குபபற்றது எனக்கு மிகுந்த மகிழ்ச்சி அேிக்கிறது. இந்த முகாமிற்காக பெபத்துடன் அயராது உதைத்த அதனவருக்கும் என் நன்றி. இபேசு அவர்களை ப ோக்கி “ஜவீ அப் ம் ோபே, என்ேிடத்தில் வருகிறவன் ஒருக்கோலும் சிேளடேோன். என்ேிடத்தில் விசுவோசமோேிருக்கிறவன் ஒருக்கோலும் தோகமளடேோன்” பேோவோன் 6:35 ளவதாகமம், ளதவன் தன் மக்களுடன் ளபசுவதற்கு பயன்படுத்தும் பமாைியாகக் கருதப்படுகிறது. ளதவன் இன்றும் ளவத வார்த்ததகேின் மூலம் ளபசுகிறார். ளதவன் தனது வார்த்ததயின் மூலமும் தமது பரிசுத்த ஆவியானவரின் மூலமும் மக்களுடன் இதடபடுகிறார். ளவத வசனத்ததயும் அதின் ளகாட்பாடுகதேயும் சரியாக புரிந்து பகாள்வதின் மூலம் நாம் ளதவனின் மனதத புரிந்து பகாள்ே முடியும். ளவதாகமத்தின் அறிவுதரகள், வாக்குத்தத்தங்கள் மற்றும் எச்சரிப்புகள் ஆகியதவ எக்காலத்திற்கும் பபாருந்தும். நாம் கடினமான பாததயில் கடந்து பசல்லும் ளபாது அதவ நங்கூரத்ததப் ளபால் நம்தம பற்றிக்பகாள்கிறது. இததன இளயசு பின்வருமாறு கூறினார் “ நான் வானத்திலிருந்து வந்த அப்பம்” அதாவது அவரது வார்த்ததயின் மூலம் அவர் நம்மில் நிதலத்திருக்கிறார். தாவதீு ராொ பல முதற தன் சங்கீதங்கேில் ளவத வசனம் நம் அனுதின வாழ்வில் இதடபடுவததக் குறித்து விவரிக்கிறார். ஆதலால் திவ்விய ஆகாரமாகிய ெீவ அப்பத்தத உட்க்பகாண்டு கிறிஸ்துவில் நிதலத்திருப்ளபாம். ஆவியின் வேர்ச்சிக்ளகற்ற திட உணதவ நாம் நாட ளவண்டும். இப்ளபாதுள்ே ஆவிக்குரிய நிதல இதுவதர நாம் அருந்திய திரவ உணவின் மூலம் வந்தது. ஆனால் நாம் ஆவியில் வேர்ச்சியதடயவும் ளதவனில் நிதலத்திருக்கவும் அனுதினமும் ளவத வசனத்தத தியானிக்க ளவண்டும். அதன் மூலம் நாம் புதுப்புது அர்த்தங்கதேயும், பரிமாணங்கதேயும், பாததகதேயும், அறிவுதரகதேயும் பபற்றுக்பகாள்ே முடியும். ளவதத்திலும் பரிசுத்த ஆவியானவருடன் நிதலத்திருப்பதன் மூலம் நமது ஆவிக்குரிய மனிதன் வேர்ச்சியதடய முடியும். இந்த மாதத்தில் ளவத வசனம் நம்முதடய வாழ்வில் எத்ததகய மாற்றத்தத உண்டு பண்ண முடியும் என்பததக் குறித்து தியானிப்ளபாம். வருகிற 15 ஆம் ளததி, நமது பாரத ளதசம் தனது 67 ஆவது சுதந்திர தினத்தத பகாண்டாடுகிறது. நமது நாட்டிற்கு மரியாதத பசலுத்தவும் நமது நாட்டிற்காக பெபிக்கவும் இது ஒரு சிறந்த வாய்ப்பாகும். அந்நாேில் உள்ே


சிறப்பு நிகழ்ச்சிகேில் பங்குபபற உங்கதே அதைக்கிளறன். இம்மாதம் இரண்டாவது ஞாயிற்றுக்கிைதம, கல்லூரி மாணவர்களுக்கான தினமாக அனுசரிக்க ஒரு புது முயற்சியில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ளோம். நம்தமச் சுற்றியுள்ே கல்லூரி மாணவர்களுக்கு நமது ஆலயம் ஆசீர்வாதமாக இருக்க ளவண்டும் என்பளத இதின் ளநாக்கம். ளதவன் தாளம நமது ஆலயத்தின் அதனத்து ஊைியங்கதேயும் ஆசீர்வதிப்பாராக. ளதவ கிருதப உங்களுடன் தரித்திருப்பதாக

ப ோதகர் படவிட் லிவிங்ஸ்டன்

இம்மோதத்தில் ிறந்த ோள் மற்றும் திருமண ோள் கோணும் இம்மோதத்தில் ிறந்த ோள் மற்றும் திருமண ோள் கோணும் அளேவளையும் சள ேின் சோர் ோக வோழ்த்துகிபறோம். கர்த்தர் உங்களை அளேவளையும் சள ேின் சோர் ோக வோழ்த்துகிபறோம். கர்த்தர் உங்களை

ஆசரீ்வதிப் ோைோக! ஆசரீ்வதிப் ோைோக! Wishes from congregation to all who celebrate Birthday and Wishes from congregation to all who celebrate Birthday and

Wedding Anniversary this month Wedding Anniversary this month

May God Bless you!May God Bless you!

Announcements

New-born

Darwin and Beaulin have been blessed with a baby girl on 17 July. Hearty

wishes to them.

Teaching Session on Prayer

On 31-Aug-14 (Sunday) 11:30 am - 4:00 pm

Theme : Learning to Pray

Speaker: Mr. Paul Dinakaran, BYM Ministries

Parallel sessions for Children

Snacks, Tea and Lunch will be provided

Bible Quest - 2014 (National Level Bible Quiz) Will be conducted in BMC, On 24-Aug-14 (Sunday) At 11:45 AM

Objective type - 150 questions

Portion: Judges & I Corinthians

Register with Mr Clement before 10-Aug-14

RSVP : Maclin (9066 469 769)

Invite you to learn God’s Word and attend this Bible Quiz!

Rush your entries today! Be blessed through the Word!


மிஷேரி வைலோறு — பைேிேஸ் - திருமதி ளராஸ்லின் பிரபு

1790 ஆம் ஆண்டு நவம்பர் 5 ஆம் நாள், பெர்மனியின் ஒரு பகுதியான பிரஷியா மாகாணத்தில் கிராடஸ் நகரக் ளகாட்தடயில் ளரனியஸ் பிறந்தார். அவருக்கு 6 வயதான ளபாது அவரது தந்தத இறந்துவிட்டார். தந்ததயின் மதறவுக்குப் பின்னர் ளரனியதசயும் அவரது அண்ணன், தம்பி மற்றும் தங்தக ஆகிய நான்கு ளபதரயும் பராமரிக்கும் பபாறுப்பு முழுவதும் அவரது தாயின்

ளமல் விழுந்தது. ளரனியஸ் 14 ஆம் வயது வதர மரியன் பவர்டர் நகரிலிருந்த கதீட்ரல் பள்ேியில் கல்வி பயின்றார். தாம் கற்றறிந்த கல்வியறிவு ளபாதாது என்று எண்ணி பபர்லின் பசன்று 15 மாதங்கள் இதறயியல் பயிற்சி பபறும்படி புறப்பட்டார். அதன் பின்பு நற்பசய்திதயப் பரப்புவது தன் கடதம என்று முடிவு பசய்து பசன்தனக்கு வந்தார். முதலில் பசன்தனயில் அவர்

ஊைியத்தத பதாடங்கினார். 1816 ஆம் ஆண்டு 7 ஆம் நாள் ஆனி (Anne) என்ற பபண்தண அவர் திருமணம் பசய்தார். 1820 ஆம் ஆண்டு ெூன் 2 ஆம் நாள் பசன்தனயிலிருந்து ளரனியஸ் குடும்பத்தினர் பநல்தல புறப்பட்டனர். அவரது காலத்தில் பநல்தல மாவட்டம் மிகப் பபரியதாக இருந்தது. பரந்து விரிந்து கிடந்த மாவட்டம் முழுவதும் சுற்றி சுவிளசஷப்பணி பசய்வதில் ளரனியஸ் சற்றும் சலிக்காது உற்சாகமாகப் பணியாற்றினார். பல இடங்கேில் அவர் பள்ேிகதே ஆரம்பித்து அவற்றிளலளய இரவு ஆராததனகள் ஒழுங்காக நடக்கவும் அவர் ஒழுங்கு பசய்திருந்தார். புற மதத்ததலவர்கதேபயல்லாம் சந்தித்து துண்டுப் பிரதிகதே பகாடுத்து நற்பசய்தி கூறினார். இளயசுதவப் பற்றி சந்து பபாந்பதல்லாம் பசன்று அறிவித்தார். ளரனியஸ் தம் ளவதலயாட்களுக்கு என்று காதல மாதல ஆராததனகதே தவறாது நடத்துவார். பநடும் பயணங்கதே ளமற்பகாண்டு நாதன் இளயசுதவ நற்பசய்தியாக அறிவித்து கிராமங்கேில் சதபதயக் கட்டுவது ளரனியசின் இதடயறாத வைக்கம். திருபநல்ளவலி மாவட்டத்தில்


பல கிராமங்கேில் சதபகதே நிறுவினார். 1825 இல் ளரனியசின் பபாறுப்புகளும் மிகுதியாயின. பல புதிய சதபகதே உருவாக்கினார். உபத்திரங்களும் கிறிஸ்தவ மக்களுக்கு பபருகின. கிறிஸ்தவ வடீுகளுக்குள் புகுந்து கிறிஸ்துதவ மறுதலிக்கக் கூறி அடித்து துன்புறுத்தினர். இப்படி பல பபாறுப்புகள் அவதர அழுத்தின. ளரனியஸ் மூலம் கிறிஸ்துவுக்குள் வந்த அளநகர் எதிர்ப்பு ளநரத்திலும் கஷ்ட ளநரத்திலும் கர்த்ததர விட்டுப் பின்வாங்காமல் உறுதியாய் இருந்தனர். அதில் ஒரு சம்பவம்: ஆசீர்வாதபுரத்திலுள்ே கிதறதவச் சிறுவன் ஒருவன் ஒருநாள் அவ்வூர் குடிநீர் எடுக்கும் கிணற்றில் விழுந்துவிட்டான். அவன் தந்தத உடளன கிணற்றினுள் குதித்துப் தபயதன பவேிளய பகாண்டு வந்தார். ஆனால் சிறுவளனா பசத்தவனாகக் கிடந்தான். வந்தவர்கள் கதறினர். சிலர் கூடி ளவடிக்தக பார்த்தனர். அவனது தகப்பளனா முைங்காலில் நின்று பெபித்தார். ததரயில் கிடத்தப்பட்டிருந்த மகன் கண் விைித்தான். இளயசு, கண்ணளீராடு பெபித்த் அந்த தகப்பனின் விசுவாசத்ததக் கணப்படுத்தி மகனுக்கு ெவீதனக் பகாடுத்தார். இத்ததன அருதமயாய் ஊைியம் பசய்த ளரனியஸ் அவர்கதே பல ளபாராட்டங்கள், கஷ்டங்கள், தாங்பகாண்ணா துயரங்கள் வாட்டி வததத்தன. பல புயல்கள் சீறினளபாதும் கர்த்தர் அவற்றின் மத்தியில் அவருக்கு அதமதிதயக் பகாடுத்தார். பபலவனீத்திலும் தன்னால் முடிந்த வதர பல இடங்களுக்குச் பசன்று இந்துக்களுக்கும் கிறிஸ்தவர்களுக்கும் பிரசங்கம் பசய்தார். அவரது உடளலா அதற்கு ஈடுபகாடுக்க முடியாதிருந்தது. முடிவில், ெூன் 5 ஆம் ளததி, பிற்பகல் 2 மணியேவில், ளரனியஸ் தன்னுணர்வு இைந்தார். அவரது குடும்பத்தினரும் சில மிஷனரிகளும் கட்டிதலச் சுற்றி அதமதளலாடு நின்றனர். பின் அவர் ஏளதா கூறினார். “என் ளநச கர்த்தாளவ, ெவீனின் மீதிப் பாகம்” என்ற சில வார்த்ததகள் மட்டும் புரிந்தது. அன்று மாதல 7:30 மணிக்கு பநல்தல அப்ளபாஸ்தலன் ளரனியஸின் உயிர் சரீரத்தத விட்டுப் பிரிந்தது. அவர் தம் ளநசரின் மார்பினில் இதேப்பாறும்படி நித்தியத்திற்குள் பிரளவசித்தார்.


BMC Annual Camp (Adults) - 2014 - Mr Shibu Joseph

Is it not amazing that over a weekend you are getting a blueprint from God, knowing the secrets of communion with Trinity and with this knowledge developing a vision for your own family? All these things guided by a senior IAS officer and a doc-tor of Psychology couple?? That was exactly what happened in the Annual camp of BMC where the lives of many families got tuned to God, like a music instrument get-ting tuned to a standard!!

The theme for the BMC family Spiritual retreat at ECC campus from July 18 th evening to 20th evening was “Family”. The flow of family members started from Fri-day evening 6:00 onwards. A total of 90 adults attended this year’s camp. It was per-fect analogy of coming into the peace of God from the worries of the world the way we all were breaking the shackles of big traffic snare encompassing Bangalore always into the serene campus of ECC. The camp started with a keynote session from Pastor David Livingstone at late evening. The loving but equally firm hospitality of ECC was evident from the warm and tasty food served at fixed time slots at canteen starting from Friday dinner. All of us got into our individual rooms allocated and soon hurried into the beds anticipating the interesting sessions awaiting us the next two days. Hos-tel in-charges were equipped with whistles that were heard across the campus in the early hours along with the music of birds and whispers of the trees. For at least some of us it is a different experience and realization that it is possible to be awake at 5 in the morning, that too on a weekend!! No regrets since we could re-live our childhood village moments with calmness of the surroundings and soothing crispy voice of a variety of birds.

Camp was divided into three tracks – Adults, Youth and Kids. The resource persons for adult track were Mr. Wilfred Davidar who is a serving senior IAS officer in Tamil Nadu and his wife Dr. Mrs. Shanthi Davidar who is a Doctor in Psychiatry. The youth sessions were handled by Mr. Joshua Selvaraj from Scripture Union and the kids sessions were handled by Mrs. Grace, Mr. Jeshuran and Mr. Victor, also from the Scripture Union.

Saturday started with a session from Clement on “Greatness of our God”. We could get a preview of God enthroned in heaven listening to the music by stars and whales. It is a real privilege to worship the Almighty together with the other creations in the universe. We all went back to the heart of worship where it was all about Him. No praise is enough when we think about how the Star breather became our Sin bear-er. Two questions were given to us to ponder in this session 1) Who do you say I am? 2) What do you want me to do for you?

The sessions by Mr and Mrs Davidar focusing on “God’s heart for marriage” gave a completely new perspective about our marriages. Beyond any iota of confusion it was made clear that marriage is a covenant between Husband and wife with God as witness. In marriage the couple becomes one flesh in body, soul and spirit. So what God has joined, man has no right to separate. The six sessions clearly revealed to us what was the God’s blueprint for the marriage. Another aspect we learned was the complementary and synergetic nature of husband and wife illustrated by the example of mixing of Yellow and Blue juices giving out Green juice. The roles of husband and wife were also explained in detail. Husband is the leader of the family and is to love the wife as Jesus loved the Church. Wife needs to submit to husband like Church sub-mits to Christ. The purity of sexuality was also explained and as families we need to guard ourselves from Satan who normally takes this easy route to spread darkness


into the marriages. Another secret revealed was about Family altar where the hus-band and wife need to spend time together with Holy Spirit. This is different from family prayer where everyone from the family including children will be participat-ing. The speakers explained the sequence of this premier institution – Forgiveness, Sanctification, Claiming God’s protection, power, Gifts, Fruit of holy spirit, Praising god under the anointing and Supplication. All of us as couples invited God into our marriage and asked forgiveness for any un-holiness in the marriage. Finally as fami-lies we also made vision statements for Family, husband and wife – a clear take away from the learning. We also had the opportunity to ask any question under the sun to the speakers and many participants made good use of it. Questions as varied as wis-dom to know perfect partner, how to make the spouse happy, time management, challenges in government job etc., were explained clearly by the experienced pair including experiences from their own lives. Again and again the speakers pointed out that the answers to all our questions are readily available to us in our walking togeth-er with God and listening to him. Mr. Joshua explained to us the challenges the pre-sent generation teens and youths are facing and as parents how we should be pre-pared to respond to that. The session was followed by group discussions on biblical answers on how to counsel 4 difficult real life situations that happen around us.

Saturday night we had the sweet time of corporate prayer led by Bro. Solo-mon. We got access to the only network which is available 24x7 without any roaming charges!! He introduced to us some great prayer warriors like D L Moody, Charles Surgeon, R A Torrey, George Muller, Hudson Taylor and Billy Graham. Our Lord Jesus himself is a great prayer warrior. Then he invited all of us also to become one like these for bringing light out of darkness through continuous prayers with humbleness, obedience and seeking his will.

Sunday morning we had the church service at the camp site itself by pastor and the message was given by Mr. Wilfred Davidar on “How to make your calling sure”. Like Ruth, David and Daniel, to identify our purpose and start working on it to reach the goal. Our present situation is the starting point and we need to start our activities around there like praying for our colleagues, dear and near ones. Then God will reveal to us how to act in each of the areas we are in and further take us to where He wants us to be. Pastor, during his session on BMC vision and actions, emphasized on the need for BMC to be an outward looking church and become more relevant in the current age. The need is plenty around us and as church we should provide the workers and resources for these needs. A healthy church recruits, reforms and sends missionaries to the world. As members of the church the evolution from a newcomer to active worshipper to Focused effort and finally into Active Ministry was well ex-plained by pastor.

Another interesting part of the camp was the different games played beyond age barriers in the timeless breaks with minds full of enjoyment. Volleyball and foot ball were the favorites this season. Sometimes volley ball court looked like a cricket field due to the number of players in each team.

The camp ended on Sunday evening with a photo session of all the partici-pants. It was two days of perfect revival and communion and as families we all could grow in spirit with the different insights that we received in the sessions. Determina-tion is visible in the faces of each of us to put the learning into action and to further grow in our Lord. All of us were really thankful to the organizers, speakers and the worship team which made the camp such a memorable one. At the end of the perfect-ly planned camp the question on our face was when will be the next one?


BMC Annual Camp (Youth) - 2014 - Ms Jemi Jothi

Greetings to everybody in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. As we all know that there was this amazing camp - BMC annual camp, which was held in the ECC campus, Whitefield from July 18th to 20th. Apart from all the fun and games we had, the teens and youth sessions proved to be a blessing to all the youngsters who attended it. We are grateful to God for the effective speakers that He

brought to us.

We began the Saturday first session with brief introduction from all of us

as well as the speaker, Mr. Joshua from Scripture Union. He chose a passage from John 7:37&38. Here, Jesus advertises a product, his product to the people:

1. He stood and with a loud voice – for clarity

2. He states the problem –‘ THIRST’- He means the thirst of the inner man. He understood the spiritual danger and when he spoke people were cut to the

heart, just like in Acts 2:37, and just like the jailer in Acts 16:30 wondered, what must I do to be saved.

3. He gives the solution- ‘COME TO ME’ 4. And there is a promise- ‘STREAMS OF LIVING WATER WILL FLOW FROM

WITHIN YOU ’. There has been an advertisement and all we have to do is to

buy the product. The second session was all about HOLIINESS and INTIMACY with God.

What is holiness? It is agreeing to God’s will and what is intimacy? Intimacy is lov-ing what He loves and hating what he hates. Holiness and intimacy are inter - de-pendent. To be holy or intimate, we must know who God is, then must GROW in

God, GLOW in God and finally we must GO. When we grow in God we get the pow-er to resist the devil. When do we grow? We grow when we are disturbed by God

because of our sins. So let us adopt a different method of praying: Lord not just bless us but disturb us, just like Peter and Zacheaus were disturbed when they encountered Jesus. But if we grow and not tell about Christ then it is simply called hypocrisy. The third session was taken by Dr. Shanti Davidar. She began with a sim-

ple question: why is the heart so precious to Jesus? It is because the heart can love and he shall not accept giving your love to someone else, because he is a jealous God. Our sexuality is God’s own image (gen2:27). We must give importance to our sexuality than to our outer appearance. What makes our sexuality defiled? It’s caused because of the arrows that satan shoots at us like pictures, words and

many more. This in turn burns deeper into our hearts and shoots arrows at others. Surveys show that the 60% of normal people can be strongly influenced by the 20% of the defiled people or the 20% of the healthy people. In the evening session we learnt that good is always the enemy of right. We fail to do the right thing thinking we are doing the good. Missing the mark is

sin and deviating from the right is wrong. Sunday morning session was all about how we can have contact with the world but will not be contaminated by the world. Then came an interesting topic - temptations. According to James 1:2 we must take joy when we are tempted, temptations are not wrong, God never tempts , He tests.


Jesus was tempted when he was1. Alone 2. Extreme emotions 3. Hunger We can see from the first temptation that Satan will give just what we need, the

immediate and the easy. But Jesus had his own way of answering. From the sec-ond temptation we can see that he will ask us to slip just once that no one is watching, forget God for a moment and no suffering. The answers must be, not even once, only God , God alone and God always and that I prefer suffering for Him. The third time, he was tempted to be spectacular, trendy and show off, but

the answers were, I don’t need to be, I can believe without testing and the aim is to obey and not gain popularity

Things to remember: we need to be God conscious, Word conscious, Will conscious and Danger conscious. Satan’s proposals are not the best for me and God knows temptations are good for me to learn obedience and self-control. We must banish temptations and must look unto Jesus. He is a Seeking God, Seeing God, Speaking God and a Satisfying God. We thus concluded with a prayer and

with a feedback session. We took a blessing home each. (Jemi is the daughter of Jothi and Juliet from KR puram fellowship. She studies in the

10th Standard. We appreciate her writing a summary of the Youth camp)

BMC Annual Camp (Kids) - 2014 - Mrs Grace Johnson (SU)

This year we picked up a theme for children as ‘The Walk’. We all start-

ed walking after a year or so from the time we were born and it is necessary to

walk to go to different places to do our daily work in life. As children of God we

should also walk in the light which is God’s way. There are different walks of Life

and here are few that the children learnt.

Walk of Love- Jesus died on the cross for our sins and revealed His LOVE for us.

So we should also reflect this Love with others.

Walk of Repentance- We learnt that Jesus died for our sins to forgive us. He is

willing to forgive us when we come to Him with the repentant heart and this we

learnt from the life of King David how he repented for his sin and prayed ‘create

in me a clean heart’.

Walk of Obedience- Jesus wants us to live a life of obedience by listening to His

word. Abraham obeyed God without grumbling, when asked for his only son Isaac

as sacrifice. Because of his obedience he was blessed and same will happen to us

when we obey him.

Walk of priorities- We all have choices to make in our life but what kind of

choice we make is important. Daniel and his friends denied eating the food which

was served to the idols and placed God as their priority by choosing what is right.

Children were divided into 3groups of Beginner, primary and juniors and

enjoyed singing with actions, playing games, going for a nature walk and activities

like colouring pages (tiny tots), building an altar with ice cream sticks and match

sticks, made badges with chart papers.


Prayer Diary Compiled by Mrs. Anne F Sangeeth “The power of prayer has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty wonders of

divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us an-

swer God’s standing challenge, ”Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and

mighty things which thou knowest not! .” – J. Hudson Taylor

Sunday:

Laos: Key Facts

Laos is officially called The Lao People's Democratic Republic. A third of the population of Laos live below the international poverty line which means living on less than US$1.25 per day. Laos is a low income economy with one of the lowest annual incomes in the world. Laos currently ranks as the 25th hungriest nation in the world out of the list of the 56 nations with the worst hunger situations in the world. Laos has had a poor human rights record most particularly dealing with the nation's acts of genocide. The Constitution that was promulgated in 1991 and amended in 2003 contains most key safeguards for human rights. Laos is a multiethnic state and is committed to equality between ethnic groups. The Constitution also has provisions for gender equality and freedom of religion, for freedom of speech, press and assembly. The gov-ernment of Laos, however, frequently does not abide by its own constitution and the rule of law, since the judiciary and judges are appointed by the communist party in Laos, and there is no independent judicial branch. As one of the few remaining communist nations, Laos is a volatile area for Christians. Officially, the government permits the practice of four religions, including Christianity. In reality, howev-er, Christians are harassed, evicted from their homes and forcibly relocated, denied education opportunities, arrested and forced to deny their faith. Churches are watched carefully by the government. It is also said other Christian and independent Buddhist and animist believers are being persecuted. Capital: Vientiane, Official Languages: Lao, Demonym: Laotian, Lao, Current Population: 6.5 million (67% are Theravada Buddhist, 1.5% are Christian, and 31.5% are other or unspecified) Government: Single-party Marxist-Leninist-Dengist socialist republic. President: Choummaly Sayasone, Prime Minister: Thongsing Thammavong, Monetary Unit: Kip 1. Pray for the economy and the human rights of the country. 2. Pray for strength and courage for Christians as they continue to face pressure and imprison-ment for their faith. 3. Pray for the government of Laos - that those in power will continue to improve policies and activities, recognizing the need for freedom for all their citizens. 4. Pray for the judicial system, water scarcity and health care in Laos.

5. Pray that the nation would know the true God, Jesus Christ.

Monday:

Thank the LORD for the Annual Camp that happened last month without any hindranc-es.

Pray that whatever has been learnt in the camp be applied in our lives to glorify the Lord.

Pray that we would stick to our decisions taken in the camp and stand firm for the Lord.

KR Puram Area Fellowship & its members (Dennis, families of Ashok Doddanna, Athee-joe, Jayant, Jeevan, Jothi, Naveen Warren, Stephen Daniel & Dev Sundar Raj)

Hoodi Tamil Area Fellowship & its members (families of Andrew Isaac, Arul, Gladston, Franklin, Jyothi, Mary Rita, Prabhu Paul, Rani Jeypaul, Stephen Babu, Sarah Sarojini, Usha Reddy)


Tuesday:

Pray for the Annual Sports Day that is coming up.

Pray for the various committees and the members that they may work according to the Lord’s plan

Pray for our Pastor Rev. David Livingston & his family and the missions that our pastor is a part of.

Bethel Nagar Area Fellowship & its members (Moses, families of Pastor, Anand, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Dr. Arun, Jays, John Prashanth, Kalyan, Paul Naveenraj, Prabhu, Publius, Rajku-mar, Sahityadeep, Saju Alexander, Sangeeth, Selina Mohandoss, Sharon, Solomon, Uttam, Vijay Prakash & Vivek)

Devasandra Tamil Area fellowship & its members (families of Anandaraj, Koilraj, Philip,

Ruth, Shekar, Thiyagaraj, Vino & Wilson)

WEDNESDAY:

Pray for Bethel Shaale – for the children who attend and for Mr. Prabhu’s family and Mr. Sangeeth who conduct the classes.

Pray for the Irula outreach program in Hosur, Hoodi Sunday School and the Whitefield out-reach ministry.

Pray for Vishwavani Blind Children ministry and the Raichur home run by Mrs. & Mr. Shad-rack.

Whitefield Area Fellowship & its members (Daniel, Jebakumar, families of Alan Paul, Binu George, Christopher Vasa, Irwin, Praveen, Rajan Abraham, Sanjay Joel & Thomas)

Priyankanagar Tamil AF & its members (Families of Inbaraj, Karunamurthy, Nithya, Paneer Selvam, Rueben Gandhi, Swamidas, Suresh)

ITPL Area Fellowship & its members (Jeffin, Shannon Isaac, families of Abraham Edwin, An-ban, Clement, Darwin, Franklin Koilpillai, Henry Sam, Jabez, John Manoah, Ronald, Shel-

don, Prem)

THURSDAY:

Pray for the quiz and Sunday school Sunday that are being planned to be conducted this month.

Pray for the unmarried and for the youth looking for jobs.

Pray for the prayer cells and area fellowships that they would be meaningful and that we may all participate.

Hoodi Area fellowship & its members (Frank Jeyakar, Ruth, families of Arun, David Anand, David Jabez, Dr. Kumara Rajasingh, Isaac Peterson, Leon Christian, Ranjan, Shibu, Vivek Bangera, Meryl Joseph, Franklin)

Kodigehalli Tamil AF& its members: (Families of George & Ravi Kumar)

FRIDAY:

Pray for the families who have lost their loved ones in the plane (MH17) crash.

Pray that the terrorism and the war in Israel-Palestine would stop.

Pray that the increasing crimes against women are stopped and that the world turns to the moral lawgiver.

Marathahalli Area Fellowship & its members (Kasturi, Merlin, Margaret, families of Dina-kar, Frank Jeyakar, Frank Santhosh, Himanshu, Melwyn, Praveen Paul, Sathiya, Selvin, Solo-mon, Sundar, Vadivel, Vijay Dhanasekar, Wilfred)

Bethel Nagar Tamil AF & its members (Dorai, Jonathan, Justin, Solomon, families of Pastor,

Bernard, Das, Emmanuel Dass, Joseph, Huldah, Paul Durai, Rev. Stanley Jayaseelan, Vijay)


SATURDAY:

Mission: Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (www.rzim.org) RZIM is a global ministry that seeks to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ to cultural influ-encers throughout the world. Through open forums, closed door sessions, training events, community outreach, youth apologetics, and various media (including radio, Internet and pod-casting to name a few), RZIM seeks to meet people where they are culturally, intellectually,

and spiritually.

Mission: The primary mission of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries is to reach and challenge those who shape the ideas of a culture with the credibility of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Distinctive in its strong evangelistic and apologetic foundation, the ministry of RZIM is intended to touch both the heart and the intellect of the thinkers and influencers of society through the support

of the visionary leadership of Ravi Zacharias.

Vision: Our vision is to build a team with a fivefold thrust of evangelism, apologetics, spiritual disci-plines, training, and humanitarian support so that the mandate of I Peter 3:15 might be ful-filled: to set apart Christ in our hearts as Lord and always be prepared to give a reason for the

hope that is within us, with gentleness and respect, all for the glory of God.

Prayer Points:

Thank the Lord for the way he has been blessing this ministry among the hostile nations.

Pray for the various programs that are scheduled to happen throughout the year.

Pray for the founders, speakers and the management that they may work according to God’s plan for them.

Pray that this ministry as a whole would bring glory to God.

BMC Kids Library Dedication - 6-July

http://www.dyingseedministries.org


Testimony – Mrs. Jachin Joel

AROMA FOR CHRIST

For we are to God the aroma of Christ … II Cor 2:15

Praise be to God. God Almighty has been faithful in my journey of life so far and I trust Him alone for the future. When God speaks to us, sometimes it is very difficult to believe Him wholly and accept His word. But the amazing power of God’s word is very true even unto this genera-tion. When things were going very wrong around me and grave injustice was being done to me, I tried to use my wisdom in order to fix things on my own. The word of God said, “My daughter, be still and know that I am God” (Ps 46:10) and “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways” (Isa 55:8,9).

However, I tried my best to deal with things on my own based on the intensity of the situation. Each step that I took on my own was a com-plete failure and total disaster in my life. But the moment I said, “Jesus, I cannot go on anymore on my own. I accept you are the author of my life and you are writing my story,” He turned it around for me. My tribulation became my joy. I found new strength in the Lord and the peace that sur-passed all understanding became mine. I was able to spend hours togeth-er in His wonderful presence by His grace. In addition, He gave me won-derful fellowship with people of God who encouraged me to stand up for Him.

I began to love the Lord for who He is and not because He gives me whatever I ask. The Lord never gave me what I asked for; however, He gave me more than what I could imagine or dream of (Eph 3:20). Our God is a miracle working God. He sure worked a miracle in my life. Are you waiting for your miracle to happen? The miracle has to begin with you. Dear friends, your miracle is your surrendered life to Christ. That is a life of commitment and love for and obedience to your Saviour wheth-er He grants your request or not. Remember, He is God and we are His no matter what. Lastly, I want to conclude by saying obedience to His word is always a humbling experience but we can do it by the richness of His grace. Wishing you all to keep on walking close to Him and spreading the aroma wherever you are. “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross (Phil 2:8).

(Jachin and Sanjay and their daughter Sharon worship in BMC and are a part of the

Whitefield area fellowship)


God’s Holy Word and Man’s Holy Living - Excerpts from the book ‘The pursuit of God’ by A W Tozer Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us. But why do some persons “find” God in a way that

others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multi-

tudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experi-

ence? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favourites

within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do

for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.

Pick at random a score of great saints and you will be struck instant-ly with the fact that they were not all alike and sometimes the unlikeness

was positively glaring! How different was Moses from Isaiah and Elijah from

David and how unlike each other were John and Paul! The differences are

sometimes as wide as human life itself: differences of race, nationality, ed-

ucation, temperament, habit and personal qualities. Yet they all waked,

each in his day, upon a high road of spiritual living far above the common

way. In some vital quality, they must have been alike. What was it?

The one vital quality which they had in common was spiritual re-

ceptivity. Something in them was open to heaven, something which urged

them Godward. They had spiritual awareness and they went on to culti-

vate it until it became the biggest thing in their lives. They differed from the

average person in that when they felt the inward longing they did some-

thing about it. Receptivity is not a single thing; it is rather a blending of sev-

eral elements within the soul. It is an affinity for, a bent toward, a sympa-

thetic response to, a desire to have. We may have little or more or less and

it may be increased by exercise or destroyed by neglect. It is a gift of God,

indeed, but one which must be recognized and cultivated as any other gift

if we have to realize the purpose for which it was given.

Does the idea of cultivation and exercise seem too common, too

slow? A generation of Christians reared among automatic machines, we

sometimes try to apply these methods to our relations with God. We read

our chapter, have our short devotions and rush away, hoping to make up

for our deep inward bankruptcy but attending another gospel meeting or

listening to another great sermon! What God in His sovereignty may yet do

on a world-scale I do not claim to know but what He will do for the plain

man or woman who seeks His face I do believe I know. Let any man turn to

God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him

seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience

and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped for

in his leaner and weaker days.

The word of God is powerful. In the beginning God spoke to noth-ing and it became something – “And God said – and it was so” this phrase

occurs throughout the Genesis story of creation and that is how has been

down through the ages. That God is here and that He is speaking – these

truths stand behind all other biblical truths. Much of our confusion is due to


a wrong conception of and a wrong feeling for the Scriptures – a silent

God suddenly began to speak in a book and when the book was finished

lapsed back into silence again. Now we read the Bible as a record of

what God said when He was for a brief time in a speaking mood. How far

from the actual truth can we be! The facts are that God is not silent and

has never been silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second Person

of the Holy Trinity is called the Word. The Bible is the infallible declaration of

His mind for us put into our familiar human words. A new world will arise out

of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not

only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.

The prophets habitually said, “Thus saith the Lord,” and they meant their

hearers to understand that God’s speaking is in the continuous present.

The Bible is much more than a book; it is the Voice, the very Word of the

Living God.

The simple daily exercise of dwelling in the Word of God and obedi-

ence to His word will slowly and surely fix our gaze Godward and we shall

be ushered onto a new level of spiritual life more in keeping with the prom-

ises of God and the mood of the New Testament. Every soul belongs to

God and God being Who He is and we being who we are, the only thinka-

ble relation between us is one of full Lordship on His part and complete

submission on ours. The pursuit of God must embrace the labour of bring-

ing our total personality in conformity to His. The moment we make up our

minds that we are going to exalt God over all, we step out of the world

parade for the world of fallen men does not honour God. The sinner prides

himself on his ‘independence’ completely overlooking the fact that he is

the weak slave of the sins that rule his members. The man who surrenders

to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose

yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

One other great truth to be understood is the distinction between

the sacred and the secular. We tend to divide our life into two depart-

ments but the Lord Jesus Christ himself is our perfect example and He knew

no divided life. “I do always the things that please Him,” was his summary

of his own life in relation to His Father. The suffering he endured grew out of

his position as the world’s sin bearer; they were never the result of moral

uncertainty or spiritual maladjustment. Paul’s exhortation to “do all to the

glory of God” is more than pious idealism. It does not mean that every-

thing we do is of equal importance. Paul’s sewing of tents was not equal

to his writing of the Epistle to the Romans, but both were accepted of God

and both were true acts of worship. Certainly it is more important to lead a

soul to Christ than to plant a garden, but the planting of the garden can

be as holy an act as the winning of a soul. It is not what a man does that

determines whether his work is sacred or secular; it is why he does it. Every

common act of the man wholly surrendered to God is an act of worship

and all he does is good and acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For

such a man, living itself will be sacramental and the whole world a sanctu-

ary. As he goes about his daily life, he hears the heavenly voices saying,

“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.”


ஆகஸ்ட் – ிகழ்ச்சி அட்டவளே

ிகழ்ச்சி ோளும் ப ைமும் ப ோறுப் ோைர் வைிபாட்டு ஆராததன (தமிழ்)

ஒவ்பவாரு ஞாயிறு – காதல 7:00-8:45

ளபாதகர்

வைிபாட்டு ஆராததன (ஆங்கிலம்)

ஒவ்பவாரு ஞாயிறு – காதல 9:00-11:15

ளபாதகர்

மாதல இதச ஆராததன (ஆங்கிலம்)

ஒவ்பவாரு ஞாயிறு – மாதல 6:30-7:30

ஐசக் பீட்டர்சன்

ஞாயிறு பள்ேி ஒவ்பவாரு ஞாயிறு – காதல 8:15-9:25

கிப்ட்லின்

ஹுடி கன்னடா ஞாயிறு பள்ேி

ஒவ்பவாரு ஞாயிறு – மதியம் 2:00

கிளரசி

ஒயிட்பீல்டு கன்னடா ஞாயிறு பள்ேி

ஒவ்பவாரு ஞாயிறு – மாதல 4:00-5:00

கிப்ட்லின்

தமிழ் – பவத ோட கூடுளக – ஆகஸ்ட் மோதம் குதி -

ஒருங்கிளணப்

பததி ப ைம்

(pm)

தளலப்பு டத்து வர் இடம் / இல்லம்

ளதவசந்திரா/ - ளகாயில்ராஜ்

3 ஆக. 6 மணி

பெபம் ளொதி சுகிர்தராஜ்

ளகாயில்ராஜ்


பெபம் ளொதி சுகிர்தராஜ்

விளனாத்

பகாடிளக-ஹள்ேி - சசிகலா


தீர்க்கதரிசன நிதறளவற்ற்ம்

வில்பிரட் சசிகலா


ளவதத்தின் நபர்கள்

ளெபஸ் ளயசுதாஸ்

சசிகலா

பிரியங்காநகர் - ரூபன் காந்தி


ளவத தியானம் பபர்னார்ட் இன்பராஜ்


ளவத தியானம் பபர்னார்ட் ரூபன் காந்தி

பபத்ளதல்நகர் - விெய்


மாற்கு 7:31-37 சாலமன் விளனாத்


மத்ளதயு 15:32-38 சாலமன் விெய்

ஹூடி - ளமரி ளராசலின்


சங்கீதம் - 1 அன்பன் ளமரி ரீட்டா


சங்கீதம் - 2 அன்பன் ளமரி ரீட்டா


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Pulpit Calendar - August 2014 Theme: Bread of Life, John 6: 35

Editorial Team: Anne, Rosline Prabu, Hannah, Selvin, Wilfred & Pastor

Date Time Speaker Topic

3-Aug-14

7:00 am (Tamil) Pastor

Needs a good soil 9:30 am (English) Pastor

6:30 pm (English) Pastor

10-Aug-14 SEA Col-lege Sun-day

7:00 am (Tamil) Rev. Jackson

- 9:30 am (English) Bro. Zulu Jamir, UESI


17-Aug-14

7:00 am (Tamil) Rev. Dr. Tilak Samuel

Has a still small voice 9:30 am (English) Rev. Dr. Mrs Shanti Tilak


24-Aug-14


Is of sound doctrine 9:30 am (English) Pastor


31-Aug-14


Shall never pass away

9:30 am (English) Mr Paul Dinakaran, BYM


Quotations The study of God's Word, for the purpose of discovering God's will, is the

secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters. - James W Al-exander

The Word of God is plain in itself; and if there appear any obscurity in one place, the Holy Ghost, which is never contrarious to Himself, explains the same more clearly in other places. - John Knox

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it with-out running on rocks or bars - Henry W Beecher

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