Posts from 2023 (Page 12)

On February 12, 2023, Rodney closed Ada’s message to the Church with a clip of the Justice League intro. For those of you who have missed it, you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/live/e1dnilx6UNc?feature=share&t=5658 With so many challenges facing Lifespring, Rodney asked the Lord “What He wanted to say to Lifespring?” Rodney got the Justice League: A group of superheroes walking out of the dark into the light.  What the Lord impressed upon him was that “we are superheroes for…

Kingdom Parenting – Always Learning Being a Kingdom Parent is a life-long, intentional journey of learning. Growing from your mistakes, being humble to recognize errors, and finding God in every situation. Here are a few things that I have learned about parenting: 1.       Open Palm:“Everything comes from You, and we have given You only what comes from Your hand.”1 Chronicles 29:14. Everything we have is the Lord’s – our job, our health, our wealth and even our family. It all comes…

5 The Lord proclaims:Cursed are those who trust in mere humans,who depend on human strengthand turn their hearts from the Lord.6 They will be like a desert shrubthat doesn’t know when relief comes.They will live in the parched places of the wilderness,in a barren land where no one survives.7 Happy are those who trust in the Lord,who rely on the Lord.8 They will be like trees planted by the streams,whose roots reach down to the water.They won’t fear drought when…

In the midst of an increasingly busy schedule, I found myself looking at 2 Corinthians 1:8-12 (Thanks Pastor Alvin!): “For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth…

Another amazing and Spirit-filled Sunday! Thank you to Abby for sharing her testimony on becoming an intern at Lifespring and for Ada & Rodney (mainly Ada) speaking to the church family! As Ada shared how Jesus – the greatest Kingdom Parent – cared for others, she focused on how he did so in a holistic way. Caring for the human development in 5 significant areas: Jesus1. Physical Jesus met the physical needs of the people – feeding and healing 2. CognitiveJesus…

The past few weeks have been interesting, weather-wise… it seems like we’ve had unexpectedly warm weather, blizzards, beautifully sunny days and rain?! As the most recent thaw has taken place and the grass has begun to reappear, although I know there will be more snow and that this is not yet the end of winter, it’s been a helpful reminder that spring will return once again. This song has been an encouraging one for me lately and I’m hoping it…

This past Sunday we got to hear from 2 people that have personally made a big impact in my own life. Joe Chong and Alvin Koh. They shared amazing testimonies and experiences of how God used people in their lives to shape who they have become today. Joe shared of how Aunty Gracie would drive and care for him. She would make sure he knew that God loved him. She provided pastoral care and imparted in him how to be…

As we journey on this theme of Kingdom Parenting, there are so many angles that we can draw from. What really excites me is when we were working with Jubilee, they challenged us to find out our core vales as a church. The elders and pastors were each given yellow sticky notes, and we wrote down who we thought Lifespring is. Then we compiled it together, we got the acronym IMPACT. The letter P is Parenting. After all these years,…

When Silvia shared her testimony she said something that sparked a thought in my head. She said “Growing up God was the same in every season of my life. I was the one who was changing.”  Hebrews 13:8 (NIV) says “8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Malachi 3:6 (NIV) says “6 I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.” One of the things that makes God such a…

Matthew 7:24-25, “Everybody who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise builder who built a house on bedrock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the wind blew and beat against that house. It didn’t fall because it was firmly set on bedrock.” If you’ve been fasting with us this month, I want to wish you a Happy Breaking Fast Day! Hopefully your fast has been fruitful, and you’ve experienced God’s presence in…

As we’ve been praying about and exploring our 2023 church theme of Kingdom Parenting, I sensed the Lord offering me a gentle reminder. Rather than zeroing in on what it means to become Kingdom Parents, I needed to remember to shift my focus back to the Kingdom of God. In Matthew 6, Jesus instructed and equipped the people to pray to “Our Father”. That same Father in Heaven to whom we have been taught to pray to, is the same…

I’ll be honest, I have a bad habit of doing things on the fly. Essay due tonight? Just unload your thoughts onto the paper. No time to practice the worship set before Sunday? Eh, it’ll be fine. (Sorry worship leaders). Over time, I found that having some kind of preparation or plan makes the actual project easier because I already took off some of the workload and figured out what to do. When I prep, however, I never pray about…