Lesson For The Week (Mar. 31)

Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God
I am telling you the truth: Those who hear my words and believe in him who sent me have eternal life. They will not be judged, but have already passed from death to life.(John 5:24)

Bible Reading (John 5:16~30)

16 So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath. 17 Jesus answered them, “My Father is always working, and I too must work.” 18 This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God. 19 So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the truth: The Son can do nothing on his own; he does only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. He will show him even greater things to do than this, and you will all be amazed. 21 Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to. 22 Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his Son the full right to judge, 23 so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 I am telling you the truth: Those who hear my words and believe in him who sent me have eternal life. They will not be judged, but have already passed from death to life. 25 I am telling you the truth: The time is coming—the time has already come—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will come to life. 26 Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same way he has made his Son to be the source of life. 27 And he has given the Son the right to judge, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice 29 and come out of their graves: Those who have done good will rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned. 30 I can do nothing on my own authority; I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants.”

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http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060331_e.pdf

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http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060331_c.pdf

Past Lessons:
http://www.ortv.com/english/ebs_c/ebs_e.htm

Kevin's Riddle Time (Mar. 24)

What did the frog order in the fast food restaurant?

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*The answer is in the comment section.*

Improve Your English!

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Just for fun! = )
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Lesson For The Week (Mar. 24)

Jesus Heals the Man at the Pool
Jesus answered them, “My Father is always working, and I too must work.”(John 5:17)

Bible Reading (John 5:1~18)

1 After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival. 2 Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethesda. 3 A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches—the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. [Some manuscripts add verses 3b-4] They were waiting for the water to move, because every now and then an angel of the Lord went down into the pool and stirred up the water. The first sick person to go into the pool after the water was stirred up was healed from whatever disease he had. 5 A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 The sick man answered, “Sir, I don’t have anyone here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there first.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.” 9 Immediately the man got well; he picked up his mat and started walking.

The day this happened was a Sabbath, 10 so the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed, “This is a Sabbath, and it is against our Law for you to carry your mat.” 11 He answered, “The man who made me well told me to pick up my mat and walk.” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who told you to do this?” 13 But the man who had been healed did not know who Jesus was, for there was a crowd in that place, and Jesus had slipped away. 14 Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said, “Listen, you are well now; so stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 Then the man left and told the Jewish authorities that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.
17 Jesus answered them, “My Father is always working, and I too must work.” 18 This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.

Download the lesson (English):
http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060324_e.pdf

Download the lesson (Chinese):
http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060324_c.pdf

Past Lessons:
http://www.ortv.com/english/ebs_c/ebs_e.htm

Kevin's Riddle Time (Mar. 17)

What did one teddy bear say to the other teddy bear

when he offered him some dessert?

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Answer: No, thank you.

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*The answer is in the comment section.*

There Is None Like You

There Is None Like You

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There is none like you
No one else can touch my heart like you do

I can search for all eternity long

And find there is none like you

Your mercy flows like a river wide

And healing comes from your hands

Suffering children are safe in your arms
There is none like you

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Dear Sharon, there you go!

Your wish has been granted!
So I guess this is you ↓ hahahaha ; )

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This Is The Moment - Musical

This Is The Moment - Jekyll And Hyde

(變身怪醫)

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"3:56Am, I started this alone, and I must finish it alone.

I realize now, I must use myself as the subject of the experiment."

by Doctor Jekyll
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Michael Ball's Version

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Donny Osmond's Version

JEKYLL:

This is the moment, This is the day

When I send all my doubts and demons on their way

Every endeavor, I have made ever

Is coming into play, Is here and now today

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This is the moment, This is the time
When the momentum and the moment are in rhyme

Give me this moment, This precious chance
I'll gather up my past, and make some sense at last

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This is the moment, When all I've done
All of my dreaming, scheming and screaming, become one

This is the day, see it sparkle and shine

When all I've lived for becomes mine!

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For all these years,

I've faced the world alone

And now the time has come to prove to them

I'll make it on my own

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This is the moment, My final test
Destiny beckoned, I never reckoned, Second Best

I won't look down, I must not fall

This is the moment

The greatest moment of them all
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This is the moment, Damn all the odds
This day, or never, I'll be forever With the gods

When I look back, I will always recall

Moment for moment, This was the moment

The greatest moment of them all

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PS. Just want to share this with you all.

The two versions are certainly different, but both special in its own way.

The lyrics were according to Michael's version, not because I'm biased,

but because this is more universal. = )

Mmmmm....Loved it!

Lesson For The Week (Mar. 17)

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
Jesus said to him, “None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders.”(John 4:48)



Bible Reading (John 4:43~54)

43 After spending two days there, Jesus left and went to Galilee. 44 For he himself had said, “Prophets are not respected in their own country.” 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done during the festival. 46 Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die. 48 Jesus said to him, “None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders.” 49 “Sir,” replied the official, “come with me before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live!”
The man believed Jesus’ words and went. 51 On his way home his servants met him with the news, “Your boy is going to live!” 52 He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered, “It was one o’clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him.” 53 Then the father remembered that it was at that very hour when Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his family believed. 54 This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Download the lesson (English):
http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060317_e.pdf

Download the lesson (Chinese):
http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060317_c.pdf

Past Lessons:
http://www.ortv.com/english/ebs_c/ebs_e.htm

Kevin's Riddle Time (Mar. 10)

From house to house he goes,

A messenger small and slight,

And whether it rains or snows,

He sleeps outside in the night.

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*The answer is in the comment section.*

Lesson For The Week (Mar. 10)

Jesus Gives the Samaritan Woman Living Water
But those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life.(John 4:14)

Bible Reading (John 4:1~30, 39~42)

1 (The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning and baptizing more disciples than John. 2 Actually, Jesus himself did not baptize anyone; only his disciples did.) 3 So when Jesus heard what was being said, he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

4 On his way there he had to go through Samaria. 5 In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the trip, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” 8 (His disciples had gone into town to buy food.) 9 The woman answered, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan—so how can you ask me for a drink?” (Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use.) 10 Jesus answered, “If you only knew what God gives and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask him, and he would give you life-giving water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you don’t have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water? 12 It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his children and his flocks all drank from it. You don’t claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?”
13 Jesus answered, “Those who drink this water will get thirsty again, 14 but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life.” 15 “Sir,” the woman said, “give me that water! Then I will never be thirsty again, nor will I have to come here to draw water.” 16 “Go and call your husband,” Jesus told her, “and come back.”
17 “I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

Jesus replied, “You are right when you say you don’t have a husband. 18 You have been married to five men, and the man you live with now is not really your husband. You have told me the truth.” 19 “I see you are a prophet, sir,” the woman said. 20 “My Samaritan ancestors worshiped God on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes. 23 But the time is coming and is already here, when by the power of God’s Spirit people will worship the Father as he really is, offering him the true worship that he wants.
24 God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah will come, and when he comes, he will tell us everything.” 26 Jesus answered, “I am he, I who am talking with you.”

27 At that moment Jesus’ disciples returned, and they were greatly surprised to find him talking with a woman. But none of them said to her, “What do you want?” or asked him, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people there, 29 “Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” 30 So they left the town and went to Jesus. 39 Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of his message, 42 and they told the woman, “We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world.”

Download the lesson (English):
http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060310_e.pdf

Download the lesson (Chinese):
http://www.ortv.com/chinese/ebs_c/pdf/2006/20060310_c.pdf

Past Lessons:
http://www.ortv.com/english/ebs_c/ebs_e.htm

Keven's Riddle Time (Mar. 3)

I stare all day at the things in front of me and behind me,

although I know nothing of the things by my side.

You may not be able to see me, but I can see you.

I can be broken, and I can't be fixed.

Everyone owns me at one time or another.

Life is hard to imagine without me.

What am I?

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Q: Why did the teacher write the lesson on the

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A: He wanted the lesson to be very _ _ _ _ _ .

*The answers are in the comment section.*

　

Happy Birthday Sharon!

Dear Sharon,

Happy Birthday!

It's such a great delight to have a friend like you!

Thanks for bringing all the joy and blessings into our lives,

we appreciate having you as a friend, sister and classmate!

May you shine in God's glory,

and bring forth all those lovely characteristics that God has bestowed on you,

and continue to be our angel and blessing!

We hope you'll have fun and achieve all your goals in this new year!

Love you!

and... class dismiss! : P