Category: Meditation

This is such a challenge these days … but there’s a gentle nudge towrda this direction. I believe it’s the Spirit at work. “One of the hardest spiritual tasks is to live without prejudices. Sometimes we aren’t even aware how deeply rooted our prejudices are. We may think that we relate to people who are…

“If I could leave the preaching office and my other duties, or had to do so, there is no other office I would rather have than that of schoolmaster or teacher … for I know that next to that of preaching, this is the best, greatest, and most useful office there is … It surely…

Thanks to aPoReTiC who’s had the chance of meeting Wendell Berry in person (cool! He’s also met Brian McLaren and had supper with him 😛 ) I agree with him after reading this that Berry is indeed a prophetic voice (in the widest sense of the word) for the USA and beyond. where are the…

“Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear. the ones the dead have spoken” ~ Rabbit in John Updike, Rabbit in Rich quoted by Walter Brueggemann, Spirituality of the Psalms

Ok … when I hear the phrase “Motivational” talk … goosebumps emerge 🙂 But genuine motivation really makes a difference in how we operate at any sort of activity. DJ Chuang’s tapping into motivation has some cool links. This Christian Religious Internalization Scale (CRIS) looks interesting. These Factors That Encourage Intrinsic Motivation works for both…

“Sometimes we have to “step over” our anger, our jealousy, or our feelings of rejection and move on. The temptation is to get stuck in our negative emotions, poking around in them as if we belong there. Then we become the “offended one,” “the forgotten one,” or the “discarded one.” Yes, we can get attached…

For last week’s message, Ron sider’s article The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, here’s some excerpts … but the stats in the article is staggering! But even before we Malaysian Christians point a finger to others, may we look at ourselves honestly because very likely we are in the same boat or like one of…

Thanks Maggi for this (according to her, at Noon today there will be 3 minutes silence across the UK to remember the victims of the tsunami.) … “As far as limits are concerned, I think it best simply to remain silent and to leave the unresolvable unresolved. The belief in resurrection is not the ‘solution’…

~ The Baptism of Jesus (I love He Qi’s art works) How does one share about “the Trinity” to a bunch of secondary school students for two Fridays in February without being stuffy and inaccessible? Thanks Winn for this quote to start the ball rolling: ___________________________________________________________________ The word Trinity is a time-honoured shorthand for speaking…

Thanks signposts for this article Testing times test our belief by Archbishop Rowan Williams from an excellent post theodicy in the news