Monthly Archives: January 2020

“And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.” (Nehemiah 1:3)

I attend two church services. And one of them holds an afternoon service. Although there are only a few faithful members (attenders) come to worship the LORD GOD, the LORD blesses the church. I was led to attend it after having been out of fellowship for several years. We have a blessed fellowship/worship every Sunday (almost, except for that one Sunday where the cold weather prevented the pastor from coming).

But there is one thing that I was disheartened to notice about the church (building); and that was the broken, disheveled, and semi-demolished wall in the front of the church.

I thought to myself after having seen it’s scraggy pitiful appearance that this is the LORD’s temple (physical), where HIS people come to worship HIM. It shouldn’t be in this sorry condition.

Nehemiah wept when he heard of the condition of the wall of Jerusalem from one of his brethren after the city has been destroyed by the Babylonians and deported the people, “The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month of Chisleu, in the twentieh year, as I was in Shushan the palace, that Hanani, one of my brethren, came, and he and certain men of Judah; and I asked concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction (Hebrew gadol gaw-dole = great [in any sense]; Brown/Driver/Briggs = great [adjective], large [in magnitude and extent, in in tensity]) and reproach (Hebrew cherpah kher-paw = insult, disgrace, contumely; rebuke, reproach, shame): the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept…” (Nehemiah 1:1-4a).

I post say all these to ask you to please pray for this church (FACRC — Filipino American Christian Reformed Church, 575 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey). And if you can help financially, that will be better. Contact Pastor John Sideco at (908) 499-9727.

Thank you very much for your kind attention. My email address is poompoomseria@hotmail.com.

“But when the fulness of time was come, GOD sent forth HIS SON, made of a woman, made under the law,” (Galatians 4:4)

The good LORD GOD has given me more of HIS infinite grace in CHRIST JESUS to continue to read HIS WORD (the New Covenant) which is what I was intending to do as regards to the entire Bible. I just finished reading the Old Testament (I am a slow reader), and am ploddingly starting on the New Testament (the divine record of my blessed SAVIOUR, KING, and CREATOR).

From the beginning, even before time, GOD the FATHER has HIS SON ignominious venture (a rescue mission that involve the most horrifying ordeal anyone can face). And this was what was keeping me from reading through the New Testament haphazardly. So, I googled site that will help me read through the gospels in their harmony. And I found three very helpful ones: the Blue Letter Bible, the Life Of CHRIST, and the Enduring Word.

And as I went along trudging through the harmony of the gospels, I got to that place where I had to look at the gospels in a different set of lenses. It’s almost like I was reading the gospel for the first time!

All that doesn’t mean a single thing. The only thing that matters is my SAVIOUR, the LORD JESUS. The great love of GOD the FATHER for us in giving us HIS only begotten SON!