Category: Random Thoughts

Ash Wednesday services has become one of my favorite services next to Good Friday (and perhaps Easter). Then again, after embracing the Christian year as integral to my life … all the major Christian festivals as well as little minor ones has become a life shaping force for me. Reading an email when i came…

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…

I couldn’t resist the temptation to put the above photo up (please don’t be offended). But when I saw it in a Christian bookstore it raised my eyebrows. Finally, I think I’m having a little bit more discipline in reading the always insightful Lesslie Newbigin as a springboard for my own thinking. The Gospel and…

It was good to “de-tox” from the internet and blogging at Selesa Hillhomes the last 3 days. I think May Chin perhaps was pretty happy that I couldn’t get access. Then it opens up the time for us to truly enjoy pretty good weather and time together with family, friends, food, fun, fellowship, freedom and…

I’m exhausted. It’s been a long day. I’m thankful for being given the opportunity to serve as the chaplain for the Lutheran in Malaysia & Singapore (LCMS) Special General Meeting (SGM) today. It was an important meeting and I was in charge of the opening holy communion worship service and the closing service. The day…

I’m pretty tired overall … the last week has been full of adventure, many Hi’s and Low’s and unexpected events. Some energizing , others worrying, all in all I survived. I’m amazed how there are people that can easily blurt out unsubstantiated opinions and declare them as facts. Lord have mercy. Why is it that…

The work, interaction, discussions, invitations, responses etc going into what is 90% going to be titled “A Quiet Revolution of Hope: Conversations on Gospel, Church, Discipleship, and World with Brian McLaren & Malaysian Conversation Partners” in March 3 -4, 2007 Saturday and Sunday has been exciting and rewarding, full of little twists and turns, interesting…

Woke up … some good coffee … started the day with the Moravian Daily Texts. Finally posted up “the Emerging Church” article .. but realized some of the fonts wasn’t compatible and the piece was peppered with “question” marks 🙂 Tried to take care of the 2 kids while May Chin went out of the…

It was sobering to spend this evening at a memorial service. While I’m more familiar with the husband after a memorable bus ride home from Singapore, listening to the eulogies for the wife was moving and made me see how she had impacted those who were around her. Memorial services and all that happens there…

I love the picture above. Elysia amazes me … This has been quite an “eventful” Christmas … not so much in being busy but in the variety of events. Friday we were at the Rumah Hope children’s home, Saturday I was at the last BLC council meeting for the year (good wrap up), afternoon Christmas…