Barker Road Methodist Church Filipino Ministry

Maligayang araw ng pagkasilang mga kapatid kay Kristo! Kami ay nakikigalak sa inyo!🥳🥳🥳🙏

There's nothing worth more, that could ever come close
No thing can compare, You're our living hope, your presence Lord
I've tasted and seen of the sweetest of loves
When my heart becomes free, and my shame is undone,
Your presence Lord

Magandang Gabi mga kaptid! Pentecost Sunday na bukas at ito rin ang Anniversary ng Barker Road Methodist Church! Samahan ang pamilya ng Diyos sa Barker Road Methodist Church Filipino Ministry ng 11 AM sa Performance Art Theatre, ACS Primary sa pagsimba!

Ang ating mensahe ng buhay ay mababahagi sa atin ng ating Pastor-In-Charge Rev. Wendy Watson (via CCV) sa PAT mula sa John 3:1-8.

Ang ating Mental Health Workshop ay pansamantalang hindi matutuloy bukas as our speaker is not well. Patuloy nating itaas sa Diyos ang ating mga kapatirang dumadaan din sa distress at iba pang mental health na sakit.

Maligayang kaarawan Sis Ellen Joy ! May the Lord be with you always! 🙏 🎈 🎂

How Deep the Father's Love for Us
Stuart Townsend

How deep the Father’s love for us,
How vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss –
The Father turns His face away,
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory.

Behold the man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life –
I know that it is finished.

I will not boast in anything,
No gifts, no power, no wisdom;
But I will boast in Jesus Christ,
His death and resurrection.
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer;
But this I know with all my heart –
His wounds have paid my ransom.

1 John 4:9-11
God showed his love for us when he sent his only Son into the world to give us life. Real love isn't our love for God, but his love for us. God sent his Son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven. Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other.

Dear Lord, on this Good Friday, help us be near your cross, and hold steadfast this act of great love for us. Even in our unworthiness, you embraced us as Your children. Oh that we are redeemed by so high a price, Lord grant us to live worthily of Your saving grace. Help us to have eyes that see your love for those around us, that we may also love them as You do. The great reunion and the magnificent reconciliation of the warring world finds it's hope in You Jesus, bring us together in Your light. As we also in our call to obedience carry our cross to follow You, help us to forgive, help us to commit our spirit unto Your Holy Plan. In the Name of God our Redeeming Father, of God the Saviour Jesus, of God our Comforter the Spirit, Amen.

Good Friday Service | 10.30am | Auditorium

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Good Friday Service | 8.30am | Auditorium

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Communion and Crisis
(From The Good of Giving Up, by Aaron Damiani)

The paradox of Lent is that it creates a spiritual crisis that leads to stronger communion with God and others. This is the "Bright Sadness" that animates our prayers, even if only in the form of tears or groans or old psalms. In Lent, we are vexed by our weakness, feel like aliens in a strange land, and know all too well that this is not good for us to be alone.

As we prepare for Easter, we need new prayer habits to help us confront our isolation, pain, and temptations. As a result, we come to the end of ourselves in the best way possible. This process trains us to cling to Jesus and His church rather than using either as a quick fix for a better life.

When Jesus was praying in the garden of Gethsemane in preparation for the cross, He called His disciples to keep watch with Him rather than withdrawing to sleep (Matthew 26:36-46). Jesus knew that the crisis of His impending death was meant to draw Him into deeper communion with His Father, and He implored His disciples to stay awake with Him, to join Him in that crisis-filled communion. When we pray in Lent, it's almost as if we are hearing that invitation for ourselves, "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." (Matthew 26:41)

So instead of escaping the heat of crisis and doing what we want, we stay put and keep watch. We grasp hands with Jesus and our fellow Christians and ask the Father to deliver us from evil. By the time we reach Easter morning, our hope in Jesus' resurrection is richly rewarded with joy and thanksgiving.

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Dear LORD, help us to watch and wait with you, that in the deepest and darkest moments of our crisis, we experience a long comfort - one that isn't fleeting or instant, but one that is holy and complete, knowing that You are turning our mourning into dancing and every sorrow into joy. Lord, how precious are your thoughts of us, that you help us in Holy gentleness. Help us even now to cling to You, so that your peace and your presence becomes our hope and our security. Carry us forward to the day of Your victory, that we may rejoice, knowing that through the storm, we have deepened our relationship with our Savior!

Maligayang kaarawan Sis Evelyn ! May the Lord be with you always! 🙏 🎈 🎂

Maligayang kaarawan Sis ,Relyne ! May the Lord be with you always! 🎂🎉🙏

Maligayang kaarawan Sis ,Moneena ! May the Lord be with you always! 🙏 🎈 🎂

"The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead. Therefore, my spirit is overwhelmed and weak within me. My heart grows numb within me."
Psalm 143:2-3

"Uncomfortable disciplines of Lent create a spiritual poverty that sweetens and enriches our communion with God. We may naturally fear physical discomfort, but spiritual numbness is far worse. We don't want to miss out on the experience of being weak and dependent and thus spiritually alive in Christ."
- Paraphrase from Adam Damiani, The Good of Giving Up.

"Numbness unacknowledged can lead to a crisis of faith, but noticing numbness is an act of faith. It says, 'I know God is still good, and the problem is that my senses cannot perceive it in this season.'"
- Caroline Saunders

Panginoong Diyos, patawarin mo kami kapag hindi namin nararamdaman ang udyok Ninyo sa puso namin na makabalik sa Inyo.

Sa maraming magugulo at nakakalito na nangyayari ay naging bato ang aming mga puso. Mga bagay na hindi kaayaya sa inyo ay aming yinakap, mga ikinaluluha na kasalanan ay aming ikinatuwa.

Naiwan ang mga gutom at naghihirap, ang mga nagtatago at nakulong, ang mga hubad at uhaw, ang mga inabuso at mga nangangailangang tao -- naiwan sila at wala sa amin ang malapitan dahil kami ay nabulag sa kanilang pinagdadaanan at kami mismo ang lumalayo sa kanila.

Patawarin mo kami, o Diyos. Hindi tama na malayo ang puso namin sa puso Ninyo. Hindi namin nararamdaman ang mahalaga sa puso Ninyo.

Maibalik at maiayos po ang puso namin sa loob ng paghilom ng Banal na Spirito, at matuto kaming makadepende muli sa inyong kapangyarihan, kalooban, at karunungan para sa banal na pamumuhay, sa Pangalan ng Ama, ng Anak, at Espirito Santo, Amen.

Maligayang kaarawan Sis ,Shirley ! May the Lord be with you always! 🙏 🎈 🎂

No Scar?
- by Amy Carmichael

Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,
I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star,
Hast thou no scar?

Hast thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers, spent,
Leaned Me against a tree to die, and rent
by ravening beasts that compassed Me, I swooned:
Hast thou no wound?

No wound, no scar?
Yet as the Master shall the servant be,
And, pierced are the feet that follow Me;
But thine are whole: can he have followed far
Who has no wound nor scar?

Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."

Lord, forgive us when we have lived a life that idolized safety and convenience that leads us to omission and silent disobedience. Help us to mute out voices that ask us to follow other things and distractions that rob us away from Your glory. Forgive our foolish pride when in our sufferings we dared to steal the focus from You to ourselves. Help us to remember the wounds of the cross born of love, not of pride, and humble us to follow the example of Christ.

Maligayang kaarawan Sis Isabel ! May the Lord be with always! 🙏 🎈 🎂

Maligayang kaarawan Sis Irene ! May the Lord be with you always! 🙏 🎈 🎂

"Sin demands to have a man by himself. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light. In the darkness of the unexpressed it poisons the whole being of the person."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Practicing Lent is like taking a long bath in the wonderful grace of Jesus."
- Aaron Damiani

"Subalit kung ipinapahayag natin ang ating mga kasalanan, patatawarin tayo ng Diyos sa mga ito, at lilinisin tayo sa lahat ng ating kasalanan, sapagkat siya'y tapat at matuwid."
- 1 John 1:9

Panginoong Diyos, patawarin mo kami sa aming pagtatago ng aming mga kasalanan mula sa Iyo. Sa aming kahihiyan, inuna namin pahalagaan ang aming sarili kaysa sa inyong kalooban. Mas pinili namin magkunwaring makatarungan at banal kaysa mabuhay ng malaya at tunay sa aming salita at gawa. Sa liwanag ng Inyong pag-ibig, baguhin ninyo ang aming mga buhay na nagsisimula sa aming puso. Binubuksan namin ang lahat ng pinto ng aming buhay para sa Inyong Banal na Espiritu. Loobin mo ang buhay namin, O Mahabaging Diyos, at matanggal na ang aming mga hindi-kaaya-ayang bagay sa aming pamumuhay. Hinihingi namin na mahugasan muli sa aming mga kasalanan at maibalik sa inyong piling. Sa pangalan ng Ama, Anak, at Espiritu Santo, Amen.