I noticed there are people like me who like to read and those who REALLY read (with more of a researcher and reviewer bug!). My friend Alwyn is one of those people. I thought I’d post up his thoughts on Brian McLaren’s latest book taken from his post Sharing the Secret .. Enjoy. “The radical…
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Ash Wednesday: Away with All Masks
We’ll be having simple service tonight themed “Away with All Masks” at 8pm, at the Father’s House (BLC premises). Please be our guest if you’d like to start the season with other Christians together in corporate worship. I confess a sad news marks my start for the season. That’s the “cross” I bear. And this…
Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday)
It’s the third day for the Chinese New year celebrations this year, but it’s also Shrove Tuesday. Thanks to Ian. we tried some pancake flipping! Enjoy our performance by clicking on the pictures … you can vote who is the winner for our very own “Pancake Idol”! (which doesn’t include the master who does a…
Nails and Thorns 2007
The initial email conversations are noteworthy: “… I haven’t been very holy/righteous lately, to say the least… still can contribute? By the way, I notice I’ve been assigned Heb 12:1-14, one of my favourite Bible passages, and also the letter to Titus, which I’ve barely touched. This is going to be interesting! …I feel totally…
Friends 2007: Discipleship [11]
11 more days to go … for more information go to Friends in Conversation 2007 One of the topics for the event is “Discipleship” (which will be an evening meeting open to all interested even if they did not register for the event). Here’s how we are framing the evening conversations: DISCIPLESHIP – tired of…
Eye on Malaysia
It’s been quite a while since we had a family outing, so it was refreshing to pay the eye on Malaysia a visit. May Chin visited the London Eye when she was in UK, so it was informative to hear of the comparison. I noticed that Taman Titiwangsa (a park where I used to come…
Prayer and Parking Space
“Prayer for me is much more a sense of trying to get into fellowship with God. I’m trying to figure out what I should be doing rather than telling Almighty God what he should be doing. Look at the Lord’s Prayer. It says, “Thy will be done.” It wasn’t, “Our Father who art in Heaven,…
Random Thoughts on the 2nd Day of CNY
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…
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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…