The Good Shepherd - Tai Worship - narrative song lyrics & English translation

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THE GOOD SHEPHERD

Our esteemed fellows, ladies and gentlemen, please listen and remember. Do not be senseless or absurd. Here is a message from God, in the scripture of the Psalm 23. I am going to sing about our confidence that we can endlessly live life (live eternal life) life within God’s love. God have created all of us. He sequentially becomes the good Shepherd for eternal. Now let’s us altogether proclaim His grace and give thanks to our LORD. I gladly come and sing a heartfelt song from the depth of my heart in praising to the gracious and glorious Lord.

Truly as our Lord, the Son of God is the Lamb of God whom was sent by the Father God in sacrifice to give salvation. And die for sins of us all human beings. Obviously we are also the like flock of white-hair sheep of Him. We are whom He loves, tends, feeds, and takes care of. He shepherds and cares for me so that I am not inadequate or missed out anything. He is looking after us, as the white-hair sheep lie down in the green pastures beside cool and quiet waters. And he leads me daily. He guards and governs on my residing and sleeping places so that I can live in peace, calmness and tranquility.

He gives us peace. He makes our lives composed and last long. He renews our soul and mind so that we can walk and step forward in the path of righteousness. In the upright way, even though I walk through the valley, I will fear no evil. For He is with me, helping and caring and never leave me. His rod and staff he protect me from the enemies. Thank you that You prepare a table that is full of nourishment before me in the presence of my enemies, you welcome me as your honored guest, so that, with dignity I am fed and can sit down and stay there. Because of Your mercy, grace and love has unified me and made me whole. So that I can live in Your house today and in the future, forever. We all believers have eternal life in Your gracious and glorious kingdom.

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Happy Mother's Day

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are blessed with good health and prosperity.

Happy Mother's Day 2019

Ecclesiastes 12:1-14, - Fear God and Keep His Commandments - Tai New Version & NIV enclosed

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Ecclesiastes 12

¹Remember your Creator

in the days of your youth,

before the days of trouble come

and the years approach when you will say,

“I find no pleasure in them”—

²before the sun and the light

and the moon and the stars grow dark,

and the clouds return after the rain;

³when the keepers of the house tremble,

and the strong men stoop,

when the grinders cease because they are few,

and those looking through the windows grow dim;

⁴when the doors to the street are closed

and the sound of grinding fades;

when people rise up at the sound of birds,

but all their songs grow faint;

⁵when people are afraid of heights

and of dangers in the streets;

when the almond tree blossoms

and the grasshopper drags itself along

and desire no longer is stirred.

Then people go to their eternal home

and mourners go about the streets.

⁶Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,

and the golden bowl is broken;

before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,

and the wheel broken at the well,

⁷and the dust returns to the ground it came from,

and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁸“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.

“Everything is meaningless!”

The Conclusion of the Matter

⁹Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. ¹⁰The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.

¹¹The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one shepherd. ¹²Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

¹³Now all has been heard;

here is the conclusion of the matter:

Fear God and keep his commandments,

for this is the duty of all mankind.

¹⁴For God will bring every deed into judgment,

including every hidden thing,

whether it is good or evil.

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.

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April 21, 2019 - Pastor Carter Conlon - Keep Silence Before Me

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Isaiah 40:1-31

Comfort for God’s People

1Comfort, comfort my people,

says your God.

2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

and proclaim to her

that her hard service has been completed,

that her sin has been paid for,

that she has received from the Lord’s hand

double for all her sins.

3A voice of one calling:

“In the wilderness prepare

the way for the Lord;

make straight in the desert

a highway for our God.

4Every valley shall be raised up,

every mountain and hill made low;

the rough ground shall become level,

the rugged places a plain.

5And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,

and all people will see it together.

For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

6A voice says, “Cry out.”

And I said, “What shall I cry?”

“All people are like grass,

and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

7The grass withers and the flowers fall,

because the breath of the Lord blows on them.

Surely the people are grass.

8The grass withers and the flowers fall,

but the word of our God endures forever.”

9You who bring good news to Zion,

go up on a high mountain.

You who bring good news to Jerusalem,

lift up your voice with a shout,

lift it up, do not be afraid;

say to the towns of Judah,

“Here is your God!”

10See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power,

and he rules with a mighty arm.

See, his reward is with him,

and his recompense accompanies him.

11He tends his flock like a shepherd:

He gathers the lambs in his arms

and carries them close to his heart;

he gently leads those that have young.

12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,

or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?

Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,

or weighed the mountains on the scales

and the hills in a balance?

13Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord,

or instruct the Lord as his counselor?

14Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him,

and who taught him the right way?

Who was it that taught him knowledge,

or showed him the path of understanding?

15Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;

they are regarded as dust on the scales;

he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

16Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires,

nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

17Before him all the nations are as nothing;

they are regarded by him as worthless

and less than nothing.

18With whom, then, will you compare God?

To what image will you liken him?

19As for an idol, a metalworker casts it,

and a goldsmith overlays it with gold

and fashions silver chains for it.

20A person too poor to present such an offering

selects wood that will not rot;

they look for a skilled worker

to set up an idol that will not topple.

21Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,

and its people are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,

and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

23He brings princes to naught

and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

24No sooner are they planted,

no sooner are they sown,

no sooner do they take root in the ground,

than he blows on them and they wither,

and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

25“To whom will you compare me?

Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

26Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:

Who created all these?

He who brings out the starry host one by one

and calls forth each of them by name.

Because of his great power and mighty strength,

not one of them is missing.

27Why do you complain, Jacob?

Why do you say, Israel,

“My way is hidden from the Lord;

my cause is disregarded by my God”?

28Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one can fathom.

29He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.

30Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;

31but those who hope in the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.

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1“Be silent before me, you islands!

Let the nations renew their strength!

Let them come forward and speak;

let us meet together at the place of judgment.(Isaiah 41:1)

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Belong, own; belong to, belonged, belonging,     = piBc],'piBc],w}.'[pQn]sw]:Kgc]'pUic],'{

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Ecclesiastes 7

Wisdom

¹A good name is better than fine perfume,

and the day of death better than the day of birth.

²It is better to go to a house of mourning

than to go to a house of feasting,

for death is the destiny of everyone;

the living should take this to heart.

³Frustration is better than laughter,

because a sad face is good for the heart.

⁴The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,

but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

⁵It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person

than to listen to the song of fools.

⁶Like the crackling of thorns under the pot,

so is the laughter of fools.

This too is meaningless.

⁷Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,

and a bribe corrupts the heart.

⁸The end of a matter is better than its beginning,

and patience is better than pride.

⁹Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,

for anger resides in the lap of fools.

¹⁰Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”

For it is not wise to ask such questions.

¹¹Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing

and benefits those who see the sun.

¹²Wisdom is a shelter

as money is a shelter,

but the advantage of knowledge is this:

Wisdom preserves those who have it.

¹³Consider what God has done:

Who can straighten

what he has made crooked?

¹⁴When times are good, be happy;

but when times are bad, consider this:

God has made the one

as well as the other.

Therefore, no one can discover

anything about their future.

¹⁵In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:

the righteous perishing in their righteousness,

and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

¹⁶Do not be overrighteous,

neither be overwise—

why destroy yourself?

¹⁷Do not be overwicked,

and do not be a fool—

why die before your time?

¹⁸It is good to grasp the one

and not let go of the other.

Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.

¹⁹Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful

than ten rulers in a city.

²⁰Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,

no one who does what is right and never sins.

²¹Do not pay attention to every word people say,

or you may hear your servant cursing you—

²²for you know in your heart

that many times you yourself have cursed others.

²³All this I tested by wisdom and I said,

“I am determined to be wise”—

but this was beyond me.

²⁴Whatever exists is far off and most profound—

who can discover it?

²⁵So I turned my mind to understand,

to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things

and to understand the stupidity of wickedness

and the madness of folly.

²⁶I find more bitter than death

the woman who is a snare,

whose heart is a trap

and whose hands are chains.

The man who pleases God will escape her,

but the sinner she will ensnare.

²⁷“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered:

“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—

²⁸while I was still searching

but not finding—

I found one upright man among a thousand,

but not one upright woman among them all.

²⁹This only have I found:

God created mankind upright,

but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.

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²²This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Romans 3:22-23)