Where Is The Line To See Jesus?

Here’s the story behind the song:

While at the mall a couple of years ago, my then four year old nephew, Spencer, saw kids lined up to see Santa Claus. Having been taught as a toddler that Christmas is the holiday that Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, he asked his mom, "where's the line to see Jesus"?

My sister mentioned this to my dad, who immediately became inspired and jotted words down to a song in just a few minutes. After putting music to the words, and doing a quick recording at home, he received a great response from friends. He sent the song off to Nashville without much response, except for a Christian song writer who suggested adding a bridge at the end of the first chorus.

My dad then asked if I wanted to record the song to see what we could do with it. I listened to the song, made a few changes to the words to make it flow better, and we headed to Shock City Studios. It was at the studio where Chris, owner and producer, rewrote the 2nd verse and part of the chorus... with goosebumps and emotions high, we were all hopeful and felt like we had something special. The demo was recorded in just under 2 hours and sent off again to Nashville... still no response.

Then 2 weeks before Christmas last year, my cousins Greg and Robbie decided to do a video to see what we could accomplish on YouTube. The first day we had 3000 hits and it soared from there. We received e-mails, phone calls, Facebook messages from people all over asking for the music, CD's, iTunes, anything... we had nothin'.

After a couple of meetings with Chris following the amazing response, we got serious. We headed back into the studio this past spring... this time with guitars, drums, bass, pianos, choirs... the real deal.... and here we are today. Getting iTunes set up, a website put together, and loving that thousands upon thousands of Christians have come together... remembering the true meaning of Christmas. Out of the mouths of babes come profound truths that many adults can not understand. Hopefully Spencer's observation will cause people all over to reflect on the love of Jesus, and that one day we will all stand in line to see Him.

We are most thankful to our Heavenly Father to have this chance to share our music with you.

Blessed Christmas everyone.

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Home Moving Experience

The last time we moved was back in 1994 August from a 5-room HDB apartment to a 3-storey intermediate terrace house. The attraction was more space for each person and we were also rewarded with a garden in the front and back portion of the house. Our current home is also near a MRT station - Simei - and that made travel much easier whenever I do not feel like driving or paying expensive carpark charges.

With the moving away from home of our two children, there is now a need to down-size and be practical. It is becoming a challenge to clean three floors when in reality we only use 2 (we have to make effort to use the third floor occasionally). Our new home will be a second floor walk-up apartment in a very secluded environment.

Our balcony will face the fence of a huge military camp and with all the lush vegetation lining the fence, we practically have all the privacy we need. In addition we have a generous balcony area where we can place a number of our nice pots of orchids, aloe vera plants and ferns and still have space to dry our clothes.
Having coffee on our balcony will be a very relaxing experience for us and my wife and I are so looking forward to that.
On the other side of the house, our kitchen and the back-room will face the carpark and the service road linking all the carparks. there is a wide expanse of land separating the blocks of apartment unlike the pigeon-hole spaces in most new apartment projects including condominiums.

And when I explained to a dear friend that our apartment measures 1520 sqft, her reaction was that it is a mansion compared to her bird-nest sized apartment of only 700 sqft near the city.

So, bottom line, where is our new apartment? you might ask.  It is in Loyang Valley in the east and very near Changi Village. So for a generously sized apartment, at an extreme affordable price and in an excellent locale, we feel extremely blessed by ABBA God and indeed a neat way to round off an indeed restful year for us.
All glory to Jesus who had done it all for us.

The Emmaus Experience - Part 2

As you can see, this is a continuation of the previous post. My apologies for the extended gap of time between this and the previous post.

The two disciples were kept from seeing Jesus in the flesh because the Lord wanted them to see Him in all the fullness of scriptures and so their eyes were only opened when they partook of the communion - an act that Jesus Himself encouraged us all to do as often as we can; we need not wait until Sunday or when we are in church to partake of the communion but we can do so as often as we wished.

Pastor Prince of New Creation Church shared an amazing truth a few Sundays ago when he preached on the Emmaus Experience. At the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and immediately their eyes were opened and they saw their nakedness and went to cover themselves with fig leaves (Genesis 3:7) as they heard the Lord approaching. Actually the Lord was there all the time but they did not realized it. Sin came in after Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate from the very tree that the Lord had told them not to eat of and this resulted in their physical separation from God and eventual demise at age 930 (the Lord had told them that they will die the day they ate of the fruit - a day to the Lord could be taken as 1000 years).

But when Cleopas and his wife partook of the holy communion that evening, something miraculous happened. Their eyes too were opened but instead of seeing themselves condemned, they saw the Lord and what He had accomplished for them (and us) and they believed. Because they saw Jesus in all His loveliness and the perfection of His work for us on the cross, now they began to enjoy a renewal of their bodies. And they decided to go back to Jerusalem (which is about 11 KM away from Emmaus where they stayed) to tell the rest of the disciples of the good news that He had appeared to them even though it was already getting late. I believe that they received supernatural strength as they ate of the bread and drank of the cup. Of course, even as the eyes of Cleopas and his wife were opened, Jesus disappeared from before them and immediately He appeared before His 10 apostles, who were so scared that they bolted the door, to encourage them.

Incidentally, Emmaus in Hebrew means Healing Baths (the Romans of the day actually built bath houses (hot-springs) in that area) and this was exactly what Mr & Mrs Cleopas experienced that day and what a bath it must have been for their lives were radically changed. What an experience they had and I am glad to inform you that this same bath can be yours when you so desire in your hearts. I do believe Jesus wants each and everyone of us to experience that warm bath ourselves at first hand rather than through reading the accounts in the bible.