This is so timely in the light of my last post . Brian Cox breaks the stereotype of what a professor should look like 🙂
Category: Spirituality
Reformation Day: Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms and Kuala Lumpur!
Happy Reformation Day everyone! Tonight at 8pm we’ll be spending some time at the Father’s House (BLC Premises) to consider the relevance of Martin Luther’s life and thought for our own context in Malaysia. 🙂 Here are some question for starters . please allow me to throw in some quotations from Luther (and here) to…
Reformasi 1517? Martin Luther in Contemporary Malaysia
We had a good start for the 15 Week Church History course last Tuesday and will continue this coming week. We are still open for new students if there are those who are interested. Rev. Wolfgang Grieninger is taking the first three sessions while I will continue on to the end. Below is a glimpse…
Lutheran Identity, Knowing God and the Struggle for Justice
My good friend Alwyn always has a way with coming out with titles. While my original title “From Coins to Candles: Christian Social Responsibility Today” tries to use picture language, Alwyn helps to highlight what was the essence of the message last Sunday. 2008 Reformation 3 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. The slides…
Love Divine: Set the Captives Free
What a surprising little discovery last night. I love it when they provide the stripped down acoustic versions of their music 🙂 And there’s more .. The thing that drew me was more of the connection between their worship with social action which I feel is severely lacking in a lot of our contemporary worship…
Eugene Peterson on the sacred-secular divide
Good stuff from VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH EUGENE PETERSON, he’s one guru that I’ve always desired fellow pilgrims, family and friends of BLC would tap into. Much needed wisdom there. So before a good night, have some supper for thought or to carry into your dreams 🙂 . Give us your thoughts about the sacred-secular divide….
Prayer and Devotional Resources
It’s exciting to see new developments in BLC Online almost everyday. The latest one is our attempt to make the site beyond providing mere information and be more resourceful. The act of spending time with God, reflecting on what’s going on around us and then re-focusing back on God is what we mean when we…
Reconciliation: Mission and Ministry in a Changing Social Order
There are times especially in crazy times like this in Malaysia, one reads and reflects on a theme by a timely book. Schreiter’s book on Reconciliation does that for me. I’m still dwelling on a number of the insights raised from it, and in some cases haunted by what I’ve discovered. Here’s a book review…
Meditation
In times when our minds maybe more occupied with strategies of life and also leadership, it’s good to return to our center where inner strength is cultivated. I was asked about personal devotions yesterday, or the more traditional term “quiet time” :-). Whatever we call it for me I like the term Sacred Space, or…
Responsibility
One key themes that I find myself working hard the last 8 years especially since the rebirth of Bangsar Lutheran Church is to help fellow Christians and human beings get them to a place where people will take responsibility for their lives. It’s been tough, because when someone does not take responsibility it reflects a…