Category: Random Thoughts

It was great to catch up with an old friend today (He’s pretty young actually still in his twenties)… I’m amazed and encouraged how far he has come as a young man and matured in his Christian faith … there are times when I feel “disappointed”, “discouraged” or “disillusioned” with the development of Christianity that’s…

I’m looking forward to “swim” in the scriptures afterwards … I hope to fine tune some “guidelines” to encourage an “open & learning” atmosphere for tonight’s emergent malaysia “open” meeting with the topic on “2nd (or more) Generation Christians” It’s so good to have Kia Ming taking Ryan & Holly and also Ben & Chara…

I found a latest couple of email exchanges very helpful to clarify what I mean by “emergent” in my own thinking and our efforts here in our Malaysian context and possibly beyond in connection with others who find this word helpful. Apparently many people are having fun with this quiz “What’s your theological worldview?”. Actually,…

(May Chin is a pretty good camera woman after all with this shot of me carrying Gareth from the sea to the beach during a Tioman Island sunset … with an Island on the left and a boat on the right … cool!) I was so encouraged by a phonecall while I was on the…

I’m feeling a little better after a solid two day camp with about 30 youths at the Rawang Lutheran Church Chinese camp. Arrived last night around 1.30am. I enjoyed the late night drive. But one must be very careful because there are quite a view high-speed heavy vehicles! I don’t know how I managed with…

it’s been a tough week .. coughing, sneezing and now stomach ache … I really hope I’ll be able to pull through this coming week … in one piece – kyrie eleison. we had an enjoyable semi-formal combined LiFe Group today .. simple food – just Satay, fried rice, Pizza, Hokkien Mee, Mangoes. Lai-chee+100plus Drinks,…

Elysia definately didn’t inherit my hair style .. I could never keep my hair up like that! Miss her … hope to have more time tonight .. I love it when she goes into “conversation” mode. I love “conversations” whether it’s infants or adults. It’s strange how when someone decides to open up nothing will…

Sometimes I wish everyday would be just a bright sunny day – and yet – the storms are never too far away. So often, I find myself living in between the extremes of these two opposites … one moment under the sun, at another moment under a cloudy sky. How will the next few months…

I’m happy I managed to finish reading the book of Joshua today from chapters 13-24 using the Message. I had to plough through the bits about land allocation (without a map at hand), fell in and out of sleep throughout … but had a few moments “leap out”, such as – the assylum-cities (chapter 20)…

I just came back from the Lutheran Pastors Retreat at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands. The last time I was at Cameron Highlands was as a speaker for a Campus camp. I’ve always liked Cameron … especially the cool weather. Those of us there had more than one “roller coaster ride” emotionally as we got news…