After more thinking since my email reply to Hwa Yung, I skimmed through some this book by Prof. Lamin Sanneh whom I heard last year and was more impressed by his interaction with the questions than his presentation. You can get a taste of what I mean here.
Category: Books
Courage & Calling
It’s quite an akward week to start our “spiritual friendship” group. For me, it was in and out of hospitals with Mom last week and May Chin this week. Both are doing alright now. For our big bro who initiated the process down with Denggi and his son admitted. But, thankfully it was a better…
Stories of Emergence
At the end the SUFES bookstore beat the rest in bringing in the EmergentYS stuff. I read Todd Hunter’s chapter first simply because he was very kind and encouraging to me during my “tough” time trying to figure out who I was and what I’m called to do, and of course the kind of direction…
How to Read the Bible book by book
I must admit, I had difficulty ploughing through How to Read the Bible for All its Worth (though I think it’s also a good book). But this one is wonderful. Especially as we are reading chunks of 20-25 chapters of the Bible this year sharing in our LiFE Groups. I felt the Guided tour by…
Spiritual Mentoring
I just realized that I stopped at chapter three of this book, which is a good book on Spiritual Mentoring from a Christian (or 2 authors combined actually!) point of view (I was surprised after I “googled” and found out how New Age and so called self-proclaimed “pagans” are using the term as their own)…
Healing Spiritual Abuse
When I read these words, I bought the book and worked through it page by page … a good amount of healing came out from it. (For Malaysians it’s available in SUFES I think … unless I bought the last copy for my church library) “Many of us have gone through bad church experiences that…
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…
Free Culture
~ via Boing boing
Da Vinci Code?
I haven’t read the book, I’m not interested, but I think I saw it somewhere in a Malaysian bookstore … apparently it’s a bestseller. And yet I stumbled on this sermon “The Bible Code: My thoughts on the da Vinci Code and more” so those interested might want to take a look. I’ll read it…
God—The World’s Future
Picked up this “Systematic Theology for a New Era” authored by Ted Peters just before Christmas and started reading it last night & this morning (He’s more well known as an expert on the theological implications of the new gene science and the author of many books, including “Playing God?: Genetic Determinisn and Human Freedom“)….