Unc. Eric Kirton's Favourite Song

This is, according to Colin Kirton, is his dad's favourite song during his time here on earth. The meaning of the lyrics of this song is very deep. It simply speaks of How Great Our God that no matter what situation we're facing and going through, He will always be there to comfort us, be by our side and with arms wide open to share the burden together with us. He (God) raise us up to do miraculous deeds. To save souls and bless others that have not heard of the gospel such as the 10-40 window. There are many places that is need of the gospel. We're so grateful to have Unc. Eric Kirton sharing so passionately about Jesus' love for us and how Jesus was crucified on the cross of calvary for the sake of paying the penalty of our sins. He took our sin upon that cross so that we might not be condemned by the bondage of sin and death. We've been set free. So what are we still waiting?? Go.. Go... GO... and share...

I've learned from Colin Kirton during his lecture in RBS. He struck us with this Question that we most Christian cannot answer. He asked this "What is the Greatest Crime in Christianity?"..... "The Greatest Crime in Christianity is knowing Jesus and keeping Quiet about it"

This song shall be a very emo-ing song for me everytime i listen to it from now onwards. It shall always be the song where GOD hits me with a brick (AGAIN..yes AGAIN) and gets me back on track. Tribute to Mr. Eric Kirton!! no words could express our gratitute and thanks for your ministry in Malaysia.

The song played during the slide presentation during Unc. Eric Kirton's memorial service was sung by Celtic Woman. However, i couldnt find that song on radioblogclub. Therefore i will just use Josh Groban's version.

You Raise Me Up

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;

When troubles come and my heart burdened be;

Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,

Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;

You raise me up: To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;

You raise me up: To more than I can be.

There is no life - no life without its hunger;

Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;

But when you come and I am filled with wonder,

Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;

You raise me up: To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;

You raise me up: To more than I can be.

Biography of Eric Kirton (1932 - 2007)

Eric was born in Clydebank, Scotland in 1932, the youngest son and second-youngest child in a family of 5 boys and 2 girls. When Clydebank was a key target for German bombers during World War II due to its being the major shipbuilding centre in the United Kingdom at the time, the Kirton home was destroyed during a spate of bombings, forcing Eric’s parents to send the children to be cared for in the countryside. Eric spent the war years growing up on a farm in Luss Village, on the banks of Loch Lomond.

At the age of 14, at a youth camp, Eric committed his life to Jesus Christ, and very soon thereafter began to sense a calling into missions work.

After his school years, Eric trained as a woodworker and worked with a well-known furniture supplier in Glasgow. He also enlisted in the armed forces. In 1953 he was called for duty with the British Royal Air Force and stationed in Singapore and Malaya during the Emergency for 2 years. Feeling the Lord’s call to missionary service in Malaya, he returned two and a half years later in February 1958, commended by his home church in Glasgow.

After intensive language studies in Kuala Lumpur, he moved to Kuantan where from the old wooden house he had rented, he established the first Brethren assembly on the east coast.

In 1959, he married Tan Cheng Kim, a teacher from Kuala Lumpur, who moved to Kuantan and continued to use her teaching career as an outreach opportunity among children and teens.

After 2 years of planting the seeds of the gospel, the first new believers were harvested for God’s kingdom, and in 1964, Kuantan Chapel was built. Many church leaders across the country today – and indeed over the world – as well as many missionaries from Malaysia were the product of the ministry of the Kirtons in Kuantan.

The Kirtons’ ministry expanded over the years to include helping to establish the work in Temerloh, and to regularly help minister in the assemblies in Bentong, Raub and Kota Bharu, as well as the Presbyterian church in Kuala Trengganu.

In 1984, with the church work in Kuantan well-established, the Kirtons contemplated new ministry elsewhere, but sudden debilitating illness left Cheng Kim bedridden and in need of constant medical attention, forcing the Kirtons to move to Kuala Lumpur. Cheng Kim went to be with the Lord in 1989.

After moving to Kuala Lumpur in 1985, Eric became a regular itinerant Bible teacher and preacher in churches in the Klang Valley and across the country. He also served on the management board of Evangel Book Centre and as chairman of the annual Klang Valley Bible Conference.

In July 2006, he was diagnosed with malignant melanoma (an aggressive form of skin cancer) and underwent surgery to remove a tumour above his left shoulder-blade. In December 2006, surgery was required for a second tumour in the same region, but unfortunately this time the pathology report indicated that the cancer had not been contained. Intensive radiotherapy ensued until it became clear some weeks later that the cancer had already spread into the lungs and was no longer treatable. Within a month, his left lung was a solid mass of tumour and no longer functioning, and within a further 2 months, his remaining lung had also succumbed to the cancer and the Lord ushered him into his eternal presence early in the morning of Saturday 24 March 2007.

Eric leaves behind 3 children and 2 grandchildren: Colin; Laurence and his wife Yoke Lin; and Carol and her husband Barry Sherbeck and their 2 daughters Laura Kim and Dana Joy.
In their lives, and in the lives of a myriad other spiritual “sons and daughters," Eric Kirton has left a lasting legacy.

“Well done, good and faithful servant! … Come and share your Master’s happiness!” (Matthew 25:21)

p/s : Text references was taken from www.ekirton.com/

In Loving Memory of Eric Kirton!! By team Kirton Misson Team RBS 2007.

Special thanks to Mr. Eric Kirton for answering his call to be a missonary. He travelled to malaysia and began his work enthusiastically to spread the gospel to many and bringing them to the saving grace and knowledge of the LORD JESUS CHRIST! He has definately blessed many and also myself. His sermons and messages trully is inspiring. May The Lord bless him as Eric Kirton is now back in His arms at 5am 24th March. He's done his part on earth and now enjoys an everlasting relationship with our LORD JESUS. And I know my redeemer lives to conquer death and to raise us up again to be with HIM in heaven. You will be deeply missed by family members, team kirton misson team, brothers and sisters in christ on earth. This song is specially dedicated to You, Mr. Eric Kirton. God Bless U and Thank You for everything!! (24th MARCH 2007)

Redeemer - Nicole C. Mullen

Who taught the sun where to stand in the morning?

and Who told the ocean you can only come this far?

and Who showed the moon where to hide 'til evening?

Whose words alone can catch a falling star?

Well I know my Redeemer lives,

I know my Redeemer lives,

All of creation testifies,

This life within me cries,

I know my Redeemer lives.

yeah..

The very same God that spins things in orbit,

runs to the weary, the worn and the weak,

And the same gentle hands that hold me when I'm broken,

They conquered death to bring me victory.

Now I know my Redeemer lives,

I know my Redeemer lives,

Let all creation testify,

Let this life within me cry,

I know my Redeemer...

He lives To take away my shame,

And He lives forever I'll proclaim,

That the payment for my sin,

Was the precious life He gave,

But now He's alive and There's an empty grave.

And I know my Redeemer lives,

I know my Redeemer lives,

Let all creation testify,

Let this life within me cry,

I know my Redeemer..

I know my Redeemer (know my Redeemer live),

I know my Redeemer lives (I know that I know that I know that I know that I know),

my redeemer live (Because He lives I can face tomorrow),

I Know I know (He lives He lives yeah yeah),

I spoke with him this morning,

He lives He lives, the tomb is empty,

He lives I gotta tell everybody...

Rest in peace.

Details were provided by LE.

-Listen to the words of the song-




Mr. Eric Kirton has gone home to be with the Lord at 5am this morning(Saturday). He has been a great blessing to the people around him and all around Malaysia.

Details of services are as follows:
Memorial service : Sunday(tomoro), Life Chapel at 8pm
Funeral service: Monday, 10am.

No visitors at this point of time.

Our Father in heaven,

We thank you for the life of this man.

We thank you for the many blessings you have poured out through this man to the people around him.

We have seen what it means to be a living sacrifice for Your name sake.

To glorify Your name heavenwards.

For his family, we pray that You will grant them strength and comfort.

That their father, brother, uncle and grandfather has gone home to a better place and is greatly comforted there.

That through this, they will learn more to look to you and to lean on you as their rock in times of great distress.

To see that You're hand will forever be below them - to hold them up.

You're hand will be around them - to grant them comfort in pain.

You're hand will be above them - that you will guide them and grant them protection.

Amen.

to mr. eric kirton, you will be greatly missed.

Week 12 Quiet Time.

We'll start today.. and i pray that all of u guys will participate in writting ur responses. What God Spoke to u in this passage. Non-kirton ppl also can participate.. hahaha.. ok this week's passage is coming from 2 passages.. Here goes.. May God bless u as u meditate on the verses and let GOD talk to u. -Amen-

JOHN 2 : 13-22.

13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,

Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves,

and others sitting at tables exchanging money.

15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle;

he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

16 To those who sold doves he said, " Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"

17 His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."

18 Then the Jews demanded of him,

"What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?"

19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."

20 The Jews replied,

"It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,

and you are going to raise it in three days?

21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.

22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.

Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

1 CORINTHIANS 3 : 16 & 17.

16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple

and that God's spirit lives in you?

17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him;

for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

Are you forgetting something?

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

"4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."

Looking down to verse 12, " Be careful that you do not forget the Lord......" Living in cities, i'm pretty sure all of us go on with our day pretty fast. Everything is so fast paced in this generation that we miss the small little details and most importantly..We forget God. And the worst thing is that we even forget God exist sometimes.

God is a jealous God and he wants very much to be a part of our lives. Be it even a small part. The simpliest example is a father craving to spend a little quality time with a son who is to busy hanging out with his pals.

Going back to verses 4 to 9. They are like what seems to be endless commandments of what the Lord wants us to do. Really seems like a kill joy doesnt it? A let down? God's taking away our freedom and choice?..Well, just stop to think for a second. We must do all these things to please him. And what for.....It all leads back to the same point. He wants us to remember him that he may be a part of our lifes.

Like Colin said, he's throwing a brick at us. But this time, it's so that we would notice him....He has to go to the extend of throwing a brick for us to notice him. Personally, to me, i feel as a child i have let my father down. What father has to go to the extend of throwing a brick at his daughter so that his daugther would stop and talk to him?


When was the last time you remembered God?

will THESE ever last?

everyone experienced phases (perhaps that's was the climax of everything) in their lives where they get super excited about something.say no and you're for a liar.

i think for us post-RBS students now (just,lets see,near to a month after that), we ARE quite on the high for God and in keeping touch with fellow schoolmates.take for instance this blog,it was started for the sake of getting back the 'RBS feel' where we emo sama-sama and share our inner thoughts etc etc.then we have the RBS multiply and friendster sites.we had (only kl folks!ish...) many many reunions and spent many many hours (i'm sure) on the net,chatting away and checking out each other's blogs,profiles and so forth.

but my question now is,will all THESE ever last?

hey,okay..chill.pause over there.read my thoughts unfold before you shoot me.

back to the question,will it last?you can call me a wet blanket for now,but i think you wouldn't later on.i've watched and witnessed most of all these after-somethings going strong for a while,and then slowly,if not even faster,dying away.swimming in the pre-existence era after that.it is very discouraging when that happens.well,not all's like that,but certainly most are like that,and like many hoped,i hope this blog still exists when all else fails.

i'm not trying to say that after having taken all the efforts to draw people close even after the end of something,it is just purely vain efforts.it will be successful and people still are close,if everyone puts in efforts.

so you ask,why fail?i suppose too often we're just 'exchanging pleasantries',to quote anderson.most of the time we forget the main point of keeping in touch.it is not too just for the sake of hi and bye,but to be accountability partners as well.when we're just exchanging greetings,we tend to run out of topics,and then we're running out of relationships.yes,greeting is the beginning of something,but surface talk's not my cup of tea.

let's put these questions in mind,when we meet (physically or not),do we take the effort to know of each other's lives?do we just dwell in gossips and forget totally what was taught in RBS?do we forget the part where we're to look out for each other?

i'm not one who will put in effort in things like these,to go online and chat with every single person i see.i know one of these days,my contact with you guys will pooh,be gone.i pray not!
i guess this blog will be the life.haha.

after all said,let's not have friends just for the sake of another friend.let's have God as the centre of our relationships,then all these will last.

keep it going strong!

by the way,i started writing in my blog.sueisin.blogspot.com.yes kak jo,i'm blogging now.it's one of my once many attempts to continue a blog and so far,the grand total of entries is.....TWO!so yeah,do have a look at it and tell me what you think of what i posted.

thank you for reading my boring entry.and oh yeah...shoot.
tsuey

OA pics!!

eY!! i took 2 hours to do this ok!! so better appreciate it!! looking back at these photos reminds me of all the happening times we had in the OA village... where some of us stoned in front of the kids!! i'm not gonna mention Zhi Liang's name... ahaahhaha oops!! i just did!! sorry man!!hahahaahaha... PLZZ do EMO after u see these photos!!

-leongeng-