Archive for October, 2006
HAPPY Reformation Day!
This post was originally posted here
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It’s wonderful to catch a glimpse of the more celebrative side of BLC. Thanks Daniel for facilitating that through last week’s Reformation Sunday Worship Gathering! I will miss all of you during the coming 28days. And I know some of us are still going through times where the word “rejoice” may be furtherest from our minds. But, for whatever we have now whether it’s big or small … let’s allow God’s joy to be birthed in us his way!
Let’s start with the first video [BLC Rejoices I]
and take it further in the second video [BLC Rejoices II]
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Asian American Emergents skypecast this Sunday
For me it was monday morning and I REALLY enjoyed this chat. Glad there are 25minutes of Mp3 for others to eavesdrop in.
Reformation 1: Scot McKnight at Westminster (updated)
I like the picture used with the words “The Reformation will be blogged.”
The 5 Books on Emerging Church You Need to Buy
I got 4 out of 5 .. yeah!
The Skinny on the Emerging Church Forum at WTS
Andrew Jones is appreciative and provides great links: “They let the emerging church speak with its own voice. They allowed both sides of the debate. And they showed why their particular angle on the gospel and church history was, in their minds, superior. And thats cool. Every denomination or stream of the church should know how their own history has equipped them to function and succeed in today’s cultural environment, as well as the eye-planks that could cause blindspots.
It was a brave attempt and judging by the professors who chose NOT to attend, it may have been a stretch. But they pulled it off made a benchmark for other Seminaries.”
What is the Emerging Church? Full Text.
Andrew is really on the roll this week! Thanks …
Westminster Paper on Emerging
Nice to hear from Scot himself. Looking forward to read more.
What is the Emerging Church? and Misnomers Surrounding the Emerging Church. By Scott McKnight (WMA file)
This is for those who don’t mind a “softer” volumn version. Thanks Gideon! And thanks to Bob for changing it to Mp3. using headphones would work best.
The Emerging Church Talk Down Under with Don Carson
Thumbs up for the Aussies!
emergent village & full communion
Keep on blogging Dwight!
Your emerging view(s) of Jesus, please?
interesting from UK.
[Big Bro & Little Sis Post-Taiping Prequel Video]
I can’t help but post up videos of family and especially the kids. I’m already in a “missing them” mode. This one was recorded …
“While we were waiting for Mummy May Chin getting some fruits at the R & R on the way back from Taiping. The Kids used their time wisely while waiting.
There’s a nice “surprise” ending 
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It’s wonderful when both of them are not fighting, and having fun together. In this case, enjoying the video where I captured Elysia laughing for 46 seconds (the other person laughing in the background is from the video). There was some surprising reactions I got here I will REALLY miss both of them for 28days soon. Of course, I will miss my wife May Chin too! *grin*
“In the first place, I ask that men make no reference to my name; let them call themselves Christians, not Lutherans. What is Luther? After all the teaching is not mine [John 7:16]. Neither was I crucified for anyone. St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 3[:22], would not allow the Christians to call themselves Pauline or Petrine, but Christian. How then should I — poor stinking maggot — fodder that I am — come to have men call the children of Christ by my wretched name? Not so, my dear friends; let us abolish all party names and call ourselves Christians, after him whose teaching we hold.” – Martin Luther, ” A Sincere Admonition to All Christians” (1522)
Reformation Day is on 31st October. I’m finalizing some thoughts for tomorrow morning’s Reformation Sunday worship. We just had our KL district Reformation Service at 5pm on Saturday. so, all this Reformation stuff is very much floating in my mind.
It’s nice when we can manage to get Elysia to sleep (because she’s one who wakes up easily and seems to be able to take “power naps” in amazingly short spans of time) Watching her earlier tonight and especially this older video reminded me how I also enjoying talking with her.
It’s harder these days to be away from home. Watching some of these older videos (last year to be precise) brings back some fun memories. This one reminds me of Gareth’s initiation to “school” when he was still three years old. He already had the idea of “no school”.
‘The Bluffer’s guide to heresy’
I love what they did for ‘The Bluffer’s Guide to Christian Doctrine’.
BETTER BIBLE TEACHING!
“I hear many people looking for churches with ‘good teaching’, but I am yet to hear anyone seeking a church that is committed to ‘doing the Bible stuff’.” wow!
Clayton, Philip: “The Emergence of Spirit,” Volume 20, No. 4 (Fall 2000): 3-20 (pdf)
a little bit of “science” wouldn’t hurt
Jim Wallis: If It’s Not Good News, It’s Not Evangelical
I hope Jim Wallis comes to visit Malaysia soon for some interaction
Interview with Gregory Macdonald – The Evangelical Universalist, part 1
Looks like this is going to stretch me … I’ve just finished coffee. Must do some lectio divina before plunging into “active” thinking and doing!
Conversations with Conrad Gempf
I’ll be eavesdropping on the interviews. “…one of the problems: many contemporary Christian leaders are still fighting the battles of the 1960s — a disconnected buried-in-their-bibles Christianity — instead of confronting today’s Christianity — connected, but with underdeveloped roots.”
The Tension between the “Pastoral Context” and the “Missional Context”
I can relate to this.
I recall my friend from China talking with his son during the Summer School in Germany a couple of years back. I hope this round I won’t have to depend on long distance phone calls. With the help of 2 webcams and the latest technology … in this case Skype
I’m looking forward to keep in touch better (as long as broadband and the location permits *smile*). If you’d like to meet up through Skype either via text, voice or video .. my Skype name is sivinkit.
[The picture above was taken in April 8, 2005] exactly one month after Elysia was born … celebrating her “full moon”]
How time flies … it’s been quite a while since we managed to have a family holiday trip away. The last time we wanted to go to Taiping … it didn’t work out because Gareth was not well and perhaps we were also over exhausted.
We made it this time.
Great to manage to finally set up the wireless for the desktop after a long wait.
Found the photo above – in 2005. How young we were as a young family with the arrival of Elysia the second one! Gareth still has that cheeky smile. Elysia didn’t sleep through the journey back today. She was busy “debriefing” with Mummy who was driving the second half of the highway while the boys snoozed at the back
[the whole blog post paused for the whole night when I tried to put Elysia to sleep ... Mummy came to the rescue later ... then it was putting Gareth to sleep which was easier .. and Mummy went for her favorite TV series ...]
it’s a good morning … hoping to sort out desktop Windows updates 
Time is short … there’s stuff to finalize before I head of to Germany next week .. which is exciting and yet I will miss my family a lot. There BLC work which needs to be sorted out , planned and delegated. There’s denominational work which will need to be completed as much as possible. Reports to be written, phonecalls to be made, some important visits, and a few appointments all lined up.
And yet I’m still in “holiday mood” for this “Hari Raya” season.
Great to see the kids happily eating breakfast right now.