Empowering The Laity Through Preaching some good advice from a blogging UMC Bishop! “I therefore think it a good idea for us preachers to view ourselves as the manager of a potentially winning baseball team rather than the team’s star player. In every sermon, we ought to include some story or illustration that narrates some…
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Belated wishes …
This is a belated greetings to my Hindu friends for the Deepavali celebrations on November 1, Tuesday. –> Happy Deepavali! And another belated greetings to my Muslim friends for the Hari Raya adilfitri celebrations which started yesterday November 3. – Selamat Hari Raya! I also pray for safety on the roads especially for Malaysians who…
Happy belated REFORMATION DAY
Originally I wanted to put this post up on the 31 October 2005, Monday. Somehow I was “disconnected”. So this is a kind of delayed post. For starters, I really liked this gift I got and placed it at my rear view mirror in my little green car. Kind of a reminder for myself of…
Streamyx Slow …
Streamyx has been slow in service (e.g. transferring my old line to my new phoneline … imagine I’ve been to their service centers twice! and called twice) and further it’s slow in even uploading pages 🙁 now I’m in BLC. I thought I could have had more output this holiday season but I’m disappointed. off…
Emergent latest …
An Interview with Scot McKnight Hey thanks Scot … I saw a familiar name in the interview 🙂 How Emergent Are You? McLaren’s Seven Layers of the Emergent Conversation Layers makes it sound like some onion … I like onions! I’m getting hungry … James Macdonald and Emergent Caricatures tend to distract us from the…
Ah-Girl & I
Chin Hor had some really nice things to say here in adoration that warmed my heart … and some great pictures too. I’ve been enjoying her excitement when it comes to eating porridge lately … she growls for each spoon 🙂
Random Thoughts while waiting …
Hopes are up that I can do some “decent” overdue blogging during this holiday season – i.e. one week! (yes .. I know I’ve been saying this for quite a while) Goal number 1 today is to fix a cupboard ASAP for my queen … 🙂 my wife! I REALLY want to get back to…
Random Thoughts after a while
I’ve still haven’t blogged all the stuff I want to … I realized yesterday that I haven’t been blogging as frequently as before. I think this marks the “transition” into the new role I’m in and the 101 things I’m trying to tidy up when it comes to juggling my role as the pastor of…
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TOWARD A PARADIGM SHIFT IN MISSION AMONGST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN ASIA The main reason I’m reading this paper is because I met the author at the recent conference I attended and he kept refering me as “Kevin” and as everyone was trying to figure out my name”Sivin” I got a couple of minutes of…
What Advanced Degree Should You Get?
You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy) You’re a great thinker and a true philosopher. You’d make a talented professor or writer. What Advanced Degree Should You Get? but when I tweaked just one of the answers … then it became the following: You Should Get a MFA…