The Back from Taiping with more life! post give a more local flavour of the expression night. This post connects us to the more global reality we are in. And that’s where we are at in history and many of our own personal pilgrimages. We live in between the local and the global. We struggle…
Author: Sivin Kit
man of one wife, father of four kids
Bangsar Lutheran Church In Taiping…
Nice set of pictures from Isaac Cheah.. thanks. It’s refreshing to see BLC and the recent retreat through his eyes 🙂 as well as his voice … (of course, the pictures tend to focus on the singles and those without kids, the families were trying to get the kids to sleep or something like that…
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 Bonhoeffer versus John Shelby Spong My vote is for Bonhoeffer any time 🙂 “Bonhoeffer’s call for “non-religious Christianity” (Nicht-religiöse Christentum) had nothing to do with abandoning rigid dogma and other forms of traditional Christianity in favour of a more spontaneous communion with the Ground of Being. Instead, it stands for the church having the courage…
The Gift of Work
 “GRACIOUS AND LOVING GOD, I give you thanks this day for the gift of my present work. I hold in prayer those who are jobless and those who have yet to discover their work. I hold in prayer the young people throughout the world and in my community who must have a job to help…
Back from Taiping with more life!
We had a wonderful 3 days and 2 nights … and I think one of the more memorable events for me was the “Expression Night” where each small group was given a psalm to work with for their presentation. This group caught my attention because since I’m still pondering much about what it means to…
Thank God! Final South Korean Hostages Freed
This is good news … after more than 40 days of perseverance. Final South Korean Hostages Freed: Taliban Militants Free Remaining South Korean Captives in Afghanistan, Ending Hostage Drama
ROH MALAYSIA
“Roh is a Malay word which means “spirit” and yet phonetically sounds like ruach, the Hebrew word for God’s Creative Spirit hovering over the world, and through the Incarnation is now in us, amongst us and through the Resurrection is all in all.” This ripple is partly why I have been a little…
Merdeka: Voices to be Heard
My Dear Malaysia – What Has Become Of You? Let start with the veteran … “We were feeling good …” 50 YEARS OF ISLAMISATION A good time line of events. When I Become Prime Minister of Malaysia… How about one who has a dream … MALAYSIA – The Next 50 Years More voices … Real ones….
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“Thinking it over…” Interesting titles here … Check out the latest two: #16 Why a Faith Basis for Human Rights Matters download or read online #15 My God – Your God – Our God? Christians, Muslims and God download or read online  The Dark Night of Mother Teresa Facinating since this was written in 2003….
A Pure Heart
 PRAYER BRINGS ABOUT a turning of the heart to God, who is ever ready to give, if we will but take what God has given. And in the very act of turning, there is effected a cleansing of the inner eye. The things of a temporal kind that were desired are excluded, so that…