Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 4/27 - Special Parenting Talk

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

God Bless,

Maria

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 4/13: The story of Creation

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

Father Marvin will continue this talk on Genesis. This week, he will focus on Chapter 3 - original sin. Thank you father for spending the time with us and nourishing us with spiritual food! Please come to this highly enlightening talk!


God Bless,
Maria

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 3/23: "not even in Israel have I seen such faith!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.


In this chapter of Luke’s gospel, not only are we seeing examples of great faith, Jesus’ compassion on the faithful and the sorrowful, Jesus also taught us how is it that we can recognize and be completely confident that he is the messiah.

Let us focus on Jesus’ compassion on us for a moment, and reflect upon how it fills us with compassion for others, especially those in our families and those who have no knowledge of his great love and mercy.

God Bless,

Maria

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 3/9: The story of Creation

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

We are very blessed to have Fr. Marvin Deutsch lead us in a talk on the Catholic view of the first 3 chapters of the book of Genesis and how it tells the story of creation. How should we view evolution vs. intelligent design by a creator - God himself. The talk will be in English. If you have one, please bring an English Bible. If not, it's ok - do not let this be a reason to miss this great opportunity to learn how to share our faith with others (and in not too distant a future - with our children) in this highly debated and often controversial topic. Lucia will print copies of the English/Chinese versions of Chapters 1-3 of Genesis.


God Bless,

Maria

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 3/2: Catholic Catechism discussion

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

This week, we will have our bi-monthly discussion to get to know more about the Catholic faith catechism. May God bless and guide us that through these, we can gradually be more equipped and confident in sharing our faith with non believers.


God Bless,
Maria

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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 2/9: Parenting Talk

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

This week, we will not have our usual Bible study. Instead, Angela's mom has graciously accepted our invitation to share her experience and knowledge on Parenting. The talk will start promptly at 8pm. There will not be a praise and worship session this week.

God Bless,

Maria

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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 2/1: "Love your enemies"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

Father, we praise you for sharing your perfect love with us through Christ. We thank you for every opportunity to practice humility. May our obedience glorify you!"


God Bless,
Maria

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 1/26: "all night, he continued in prayer to God"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

It is so fitting that after our catechism discussion last week about prayer, we begin with week's Bible study by seeing how Jesus prayed to his heavenly Father before his important mission of choosing the twelve disciples. Prayer to his heavely Father was the starting point for everything that Jesus said and did while on this earth. If Jesus, who is Lord and Messian prays, what better recommendation can we have for the importance of prayer in our own lives?


God Bless,

Maria

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 1/19: Catholic Catechism discussion

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

This week, we will have our bi-monthly discussion to get to know more about the Catholic faith catechism. Please read the articles ahead of time and come prepared for the discussion. May God bless and guide us that through these, we can gradually be more equipped and confident in sharing our faith with non believers.

God Bless,

Maria

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 12/15: "Man, your sins are forgiven"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick;I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Luke 5:31-32). We must all know that Jesus' call is a personal invitation to us. Let us accept his call and follow him.


God Bless,
Maria

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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 12/8: "Henceforth, you will be catching men!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

Jesus was ready to perform a miracle long before Simon Peter cast his net. But the miracle could not have been realized if Simon Peter had not trusted the Lord completely to do what may seem at that time to be the impossible. Dear Lord, how weak and faithless we are at times to trust you completely. We know and are honored that you long to commission each of us to advance your kingdom, just as you have commissioned Simon. We humble ourselves before you, pray Lord that through your grace, we may have the faith to allow your miracles to be performed in our lives. We ask this in Jesus' name.

God Bless,

Maria

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 11/17: Special Topic - Prayers

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

We have a special guest this week. Yvonne Chow will introduce to us the various forms of prayer and will also lead us in meditative prayer. Thank you Yvonne for spending time to share with us your prayer experience and leading us into more intimate communication with God.


God Bless,
Maria

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Monday, November 06, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 11/10: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

Jesus spoke with authority when he started preaching in the synogogues. He created both admiration as well as hatredness towards himself in different people. In many ways, he is a true leader who is not afraid of stirring up controversy. His words do not always do down easily for most people, yet he never tried to soften the words. Jesus does want to shake us up so that he can get our attention. He came to proclaim a "good news" unlike anything we might expect, and if we are to listen properly, we will need to be made uncomfortable. How else will we want to part with sin and follow him on the way to the cross?

"Lord Jesus, today you offer us a choice: to accept your words or to listen to the desires of our fallen nature. Help us to be generous recipients of your grace and instruments of your peace."

God Bless,

Maria


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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 11/3: Catholic Catechism discussion

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
This week, we begin our first discussion to get to know more about the Catholic faith catechism. Thanks to MingShu for suggesting this and bringing this wonderful opportunity to us. Please read the articles ahead of time and come prepared for the discussion. May God bless and guide us that through these, we can gradually be more equipped and confident in sharing our faith with non believers.

God Bless,

Maria
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 10/27: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

Just what did John the Baptist mean when he said to bring down every mountain, fill every valley, straighten the crooked and smooth the rough ways when he preached the baptism of repentence? What are the mountains, the valleys, the crooked, the rough ways in our lives that keep us from advancing on the path to God's love? Lord, open our eyes and hearts to heed the calling that salvation is about embracing life here and now, in where we planted and what we are given to do. Open our hearts to your word, and show us, in specific, unmistakable ways, how you are at work today.


God Bless,

Maria

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 10/20: Finding the Child Jesus in the Temple

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

The Holy family in obedience to and for the love of God has obeyed the Jewish law. Mary and Joseph had evidently taught Jesus well; their example of love and obedience paved the way for Jesus to be open to all his heavenly Father would teach him. Let us reflect on the love and obedience shown by the Holy Family and strive to follow their example to sustain the mini-church within our Christian family.


God Bless,


Maria

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 10/13: The Birth of Jesus

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

This week we will have a brief introduction by Br. Kuo Ting on the study of Catholic Catechism. We can go to the website: www.catholic.org.tw to preview. Thank you Br. Kuo for taking the time to share with us this important information to start off our exploration of our Catholic believes and Church teachings. We will have our first session of the study of the Catholic Catechism on November 3rd.

Chapter of 2 of Luke's gospel uniquely portrays the glorious and joyous arrival of Jesus Christ when the angels of heavens shook the earth as they sang: "Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth!" Probably The most important message that was ever announced to human race by God, was said to the lowly shepherds, that a lowly babe was born to a lowly family in a lowly manger. This babe is to be our saviour and king of kings! Lord, teach us to see things through our eyes of faith and acknowledges your grand plan in the most ordinary of things, even if we do not fully understand.

God Bless,

Maria

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 9/29: "Blessed are you among women!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

The gospel of Luke begins with great joy when the first news of salvation were brought to Zechariah and Mary. We continue to see how this joy is lived out through Mary and with the very presence of the Lord God in her that Elizabeth, when greatedby Mary, exclaimed in a loud cry of joy and her baby St. John the Baptist in her womb leaped for joy.

We too through our baptism and the mystery of the Eucharist has Christ in us. We are the living Tabernacle. Lord, teach us each day to live out our faith that others may come to see the joy of the living Christ in us. In Jesus name we pray.

God Bless,


Maria

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 9/22: Special topic "How to be a good Christian"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

We welcome Carol as our guest speaker for this week and thank her for giving us her time and sharing her faith with us. Her topic will be centered around Mark 8:34 " if anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me". This also happens to be last Sunday's Gospel.


God Bless,


Maria

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Cornerstone Bible Study - 9/15: We will begin a new book - Gospel of Luke

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

Thanks to Angela for leading the last chapters of Acts of The Apostles last week and giving us a good summary of the book we have been studying most of this year. Last week, we also had many new friends join us. We welcome Bethany, Michelle, Heidi and their families and look forward to see them regularly at our gatherings.

This week we will begin to study the Gospel according to Luke. As the name implies, the author of the third Gospel is St. Luke who also happens to be the author of the Acts of the Apostles. It is believed that Luke was a close follower and disciple of Paul. He wrote the Acts through first hand knowledge of having been around Paul throughout much of his journey up till Paul's Martyrdom. Luke also wrote the Gospel through much of Paul's narrative and his own research. Thanks to Mike for the suggestion, we will see a lot of continuity in both books as the central believe, ideal and theme flows from Paul's main teachings: the universality of salvation and God's immense mercy towards sinners.


God Bless,

Maria

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