Category: Random Links

How to learn from your mistakes I’ve made so many of the them but I’d like to think I learn from them 🙂 Most of the time I do, at times I lapse. Kingdom of God article from Scot McKnight (pdf) Thanks Scot for writing the posts and Bob for compiling it and making it…

Post-Calvinism: Trinity Student Days I don’t think I was ever a Calvinist .. so no post-calvinism for me. But, re-looking at Luther has been helpful for me, and Early German Pietism and Bonhoeffer. anyway, I liked the autobiographical approach in this post and look forward to finish the series. *note: it’s good to start here…

Direct Warrant Realism (via Steve Bush) “foundherentism” now that’s a new word. Missional DNA (mDNA) I’ll be checking this out perhaps on Monday … to listen to stories and insights from Australia (not too far away) The Personal M.Div wow! 114. Book list … The Needle’s Eye: Reflections from the Church Fathers on Wealth and…

Miroslav Volf Spans Conflicting Worlds This following statement caught my attention, “He is a Pentecostal among evangelicals, a mainline Christian among evangelicals, and an evangelical in the mainline. Growing up, he was a Christian among communists.” A Reflection on the Spirituality of David Bosch Seeing the relevance from a Korean-Canadian view in Philipines. Wow! Salvation…

Churches Together Northwood (via Jon Harris) Love the “puzzle” picture … good reminder. The Kingdom of God 1 Just in time to refine my message thoughts on the Kingdom of God tomorrow. Looking forward to follow this new series by Scot. Ten Myths About Church Leavers (via Prodigal Kiwi(s) Blog) I’m looking forward to read…

Something strange happened again … is there a bug in Firefox .. how come I lost my book marks again? can anyone help? Therefore, I’m only in a mood just for these links 🙁 Reason to be cheerful (via Maggi Dawn) Malaysian Tom Wright fans would be cheerful after reading this! I found Maggi’s response…

Top 50 Most Influential Churches (via Stephen Shields) Interesting list (I noticed Brian D. McLaren is not mentioned here *grin*) … and I think a lot of names would be familiar to Malaysian Christian leaders. I wonder … who would be the top most influential churches in Malaysia or even growing in influence? How about…

Porn Sunday now this is more than just an attention grabber! Are You sinning against your employer? It used to be “Are you sinning against your master/creator?” both questions are needed. Fundamentalism Revisited (via Swimming in the deep end) The word “Fundamentalism” came up in a conversation with my wife this week!

Living the Gospel The Chinese has a saying, “Talking about soldiers (or strategies) on paper.” (this is a very amateur translation by me) and this post reminds me that in Reality, i.e. the everyday outworking of the Gospel in our lives, there’s more to just being “taught” and “believing”. Christian fiction in a virtual world

Soft Difference: Theological Reflections on the Relation Between Church and Culture in 1 Peter I’m going to read this article again after a HT by Steve Bush The difference between postliberals and progressive evangelicals Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Steve Bush posts up some awesome stuff for our digestion … I’m following this series…