Luke 9.22-25 “If you try to keep your life to yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find true life.” (Lk. 9.24). What strange advice! The common advice is quite different, “Study hard so that you can get a good education (if necessary extra tuition)… After…
Day: March 2, 2006
Lent 1.1: Being good not just pretending to be good
*all the Lent _.1 posts will be from a group of us who contributed to Nails & Thorns: Lent meditations 2006 (pdf)* 01 March Matthew 6.1-6, 16-18 Voices outside say “Christians are hypocrites. Voices within whisper “I can’t be myself in church, honestly I’m pretending to be nice.”. I know not all Christians are putting…
Ash Wednesday @ The Father’s House
BLC has our first Ash Wednesday Communion Service tonight. It’s pretty historical for us as we’ve gradually come full circle (at least for people like me) in incorporating (innovatively) ancient Christian practices. Before the event at 8pm … I went through a heavy downpour with Elysia in the car from Ampang to Petaling Jaya to…