Terrific Teens: November 2009

We'll be going to JB on 21-22 November 2009 (Sat - Sun). We'll be leaving at 8am Saturday and reach Shah Alam at 9pm Sunday. Block the dates on your calendar now!

Er, how much will it cost?

Just a mere RM 20! Fee is for transportation only. Accommodation will be provided by Daya Gospel Centre (Thank you! =D), but please bring your own sleeping bag. Also, please bring extra money for meals ya. Hehe.

What are we going to do there?

We're arrived JB on Saturday for lunch, and we'll probably visit one of the shopping malls. Hehe. In the evening, we'll attend Daya Gospel Centre's Thanksgiving & Dedication Service (dinner provided). More lepaking on Sunday afternoon before we head back to Shah Alam. Expect good fellowship together with the DGC's youth too! =D

So how do I register myself?

Kindly contact Andrew or any of the SAGC youth for the parental consent form, fill it in, hand it back to us together with the fee and we're ready to go!

What are you still waiting for?

JB, here we come!

p/s: For more details, please contact Andrew (016-2387780)

November

There are questions in life which we find it so hard to answer. So hard to understand. And this month, we'll try to tackle few of those.

7th November: What Makes Right Acts Right?

Moral. Ethics. What is the absolute truth? What is the absolute measurement of good and bad, right and wrong? What makes right acts rights?

14th November: Why Should All The Good People Suffer?

Not fair. The world is unfair isn't it. The rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer. Good guys suffer, bad guys prosper. Where is justice? Where is, most importantly, God?

21st November: Holiday Trip To Johor Bahru

We'll be going to JB for a weekend holiday trip! More details soon. =)

28th November: Does Hell Exist?

If God is Love, why is there this place called hell? And would a loving God send people to hell?

Terrific Teens 31/10/09

Forum: Q & A

1. Does leviathan/behemoth exist?

¹ "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook
or tie down his tongue with a rope?

² Can you put a cord through his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?

³ Will he keep begging you for mercy?
Will he speak to you with gentle words?

⁴ Will he make an agreement with you
for you to take him as your slave for life?

⁵ Can you make a pet of him like a bird
or put him on a leash for your girls?

Job 41:1-5

¹⁵ "Look at the behemoth,
which I made along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox.

¹⁶ What strength he has in his loins,
what power in the muscles of his belly!

¹⁷ His tail sways like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.

¹⁸ His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like rods of iron.

¹⁹ He ranks first among the works of God,
yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.

Job 40:15-19

2. When did God create the dinosaurs?

- Created together with the rest of creation

- Existed before and after the flood

- Existed together with humans

- Died off during the Ice Age

3. What happened during the Ice Age?

- Ice covered 30% of the earth

- Global temperature dropped by 5 degree Celcius

- Animals went extinct

- Indirect result of the Flood

- The two ingredients required for an Ice Age, cool temperatures and tons of snow, were dramatically fulfilled immediately after the Genesis flood

- The Flood and its aftershock provide the volcanic dust and gases that bring the summer cooling indispensable for the Ice Age

- Waters from the 'fountains of the great deep' (Gen 7:11) and mixing during the Flood provides a warm ocean. In the mid and high latitudes the warm ocean would cause copious evaporation and produce massive amount of snows

4. Why are there natural disasters (i.e. flood, tornado, flood, etc) if God is love and good?

- God has said in Bible prophecy that natural disasters would grow in frequency and intensity as the end of age (Matt 24:7, Luke 21:25-26, Rev 6:12, 11:13, 16:18)

- The sufferings experienced now in "this present evil age" (Gal 1:4)

- Natural disasters or accidents should humble us, helping us to see our dependence on God to sustain and deliver us (Rev 16:8-11)

- We don't know all the reasons God brings or permits specific calamities or why particular people are made to suffer by them (Rom 8:28, 1 Tim 2:4)

5. We read in the newspaper/internet news that new creatures are found every now and then. Is God still creating? I thought He created everything in six days in Genesis.

² By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:2

-It's a new DISCOVERY, not creation

6. How can we say that God creates each one of us uniquely i.e. "knit in our mother's womb" when the process is really a natural genetic process?

¹³ For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

Psalm 139:13

- Figurative vs. literal

- The double helix of DNA resembles a thread of yarn which is used for knitting