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Month: March 2004
Broken People
“God calls very broken people to enter ministry, for, once healed, it is out-of brokenness that we accomplish our greatest ministry of healing toward others.” ~ Managing the Congregation, p. 18 Moh Foong has put up the latest 2003 pictures of BLC here
Random Thoughts hoping for better tomorrows
I really never expected that Mom’s place would have a break-in that totally messed up our week (at least the last two days). But then, none of us can ever be truly ready for any form of invasion … Under stress when I found out about another unwanted event ( another kind of invasion). It’s…
Hell
~ From Spencer Burke Just when I thought I could get re-oriented back to rhythm. The unpleasant unexpected happened. One feels invaded when your home is turned upside down (in this case it was my parents shophouse). Some portable property was stolen, and for my mom hard earned or saved money emptied, and I feel…
Mother Theresa
Attitudes to the Poor
Read and reflected on “Attitudes to the Poor in New Testament Times” in preparation on a message based on John 12.1-8. Somehow reading the article coincides with our visit coming up this afternoon. We’re visiting the NGO led by a friend I got to know better at the Asian Mission Conference in S’pore. The NGO…
The Interview with God
Free Culture
~ via Boing boing
Health care chaos
Deserted by Doctors, India’s Poor Turn to Quacks is a report that deserves attention and in some ways i couldn’t help but even see it as an analogy for other areas from education to religion.
Two Journals
I’ve been keeping a spiritual journal since I was 17. Yesterday, i got introduced to the idea of a “management” journal from this book I borrowed from the seminary “Managing the Congregation: Building effective systems to serve people“. I still don’t feel attracted to the word “management” (even though the book is redeeming the word…