It’s after 3:00AM … I thought I’d unload some “stuff” off my chest. I’ve been thinking a lot about Gracious Christianity (i.e. an ideal focuses on Jesus’s directive to love God with all our hearts, souls, and minds, and to love our neighbors–all of them–in the same way we love ourselves) lately. I hope to…
Month: February 2007
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How To: Humanize A Worship Space To the question: “Have you ever intentionally transformed a physical space for worship?” .. the answer is yes … 🙂 Personal Tribute to Bruce Manning Metzger John Piper’s Point number 5 was especially helpful since I heard advice to pemulate Metger’s practice by one of his former students: “5….
Friends 2007: QRoH Notes [13]
[STM Chapel Video] wow we have only 13 more days until the Friends in Conversation event and after that the STM lectures. I visited the seminary last Thursday. It’s been quite a while since I actually sat in for a whole chapel service which was good for me to be in the congregation rather than…
Being Artistic – Happy Chinese New Year!
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent Van Gogh, Letters of Van Gogh (HT: Inward/Outward) It’s supposed to be natural but then after all these years knocking on walls, falling over the edge, being punched in the face … I think the word intentional fits better. Now let’s get really…
Friends 2007: Introducing Brian – the writer III [16]
A friend told me I’m starting to sound like Brian McLaren’s press secretary with this series of posts. 🙂 Well, the initial impetus was more of introducing him as a friend to those coming (or considering coming) for the Friends in conversation 2007 event. Gradually, it became like some lite book reviews which is more…
Ash Next Wednesday Service
We at Bangsar Lurtheran Church be having an Ash Wednesday Service on the 4th day of Chinese New year. Which is fascinating for me since during this festive season, there will be some joining me to consider more human mortal matters in the light of God’s grace. it’s at 8pm, on 21 February 2007, Wednesday…
Friends 2007: Introducing Brian – the writer II [17]
One thing I liked about the NKOC series is the cover art and design of the books. Especially this one I like the feel of “movement” and heading somewhere by the characters running at the side. Now back to the second book in the NKOC series. While it was not as an engaging page turner…
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Oliver Crisp on Robert Jenson What caught my attention is how one critiques those they may not agree … “Certainly this is one way of critiquing a writer; but it’s not a very interesting way, since such a critique has not yet made the necessary imaginative effort of entering into the writer’s own thought, in…
The Scripture Principle
Sometimes I get these little pleasant surprises when I walk into a Christian bookstore. And seeing the book above at Glad Sounds was one of them. In Malaysian ringgit before the special discount it cost RM76.95. I recall during theology classes during my seminary days, we took some time reading significant paragraphs from Clark Pinnock’s…
Friends 2007: QRoH Notes [19]
It’s Monday and it’s my “sabbath” … and yet, it’s good keep the countdown updates … “To a Pentecostal, it is hard to believe that there is anointing when God’s people performed a liturgy. But what I observed on Sunday was really a move of God and the anointing was certainly unexpected. There were those…