Luke 9.22-25 “If you try to keep your life to yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find true life.” (Lk. 9.24). What strange advice! The common advice is quite different, “Study hard so that you can get a good education (if necessary extra tuition)… After…
Lent 1.1: Being good not just pretending to be good
*all the Lent _.1 posts will be from a group of us who contributed to Nails & Thorns: Lent meditations 2006 (pdf)* 01 March Matthew 6.1-6, 16-18 Voices outside say “Christians are hypocrites. Voices within whisper “I can’t be myself in church, honestly I’m pretending to be nice.”. I know not all Christians are putting…
Ash Wednesday @ The Father’s House
BLC has our first Ash Wednesday Communion Service tonight. It’s pretty historical for us as we’ve gradually come full circle (at least for people like me) in incorporating (innovatively) ancient Christian practices. Before the event at 8pm … I went through a heavy downpour with Elysia in the car from Ampang to Petaling Jaya to…
Lent 1.0: Chest Beating
Luke 18:9-14 Pride – this is such a strange creature. If I have it I can’t see it. If I don’t I won’t really know as well. Usually I’ll find out when I don’t really want to find out . One thing is for sure, that is we are in constant battle with the temptation…
Notes after Three I.Howard Marshall Lectures!
I arrived late for the lecture series by Prof. I. Howard Marshall on the “Aspects of Atonement” at Seminari Theoloji Malaysia (Malaysian Theological Seminary – which please should redesign their website for Firefox users like me!). I managed to google one of the papers he presented today which I think is based on The theology…
Random Links 85
Like the Wideness of the Sea? This is a must read for not just the issue of divorce but also homosexuality. Essential culture for theologian Perhaps Sherman, you could come out with one for us here in Malaysia? Asia? Remarks at a reception to mark the inaugural meeting of the Christian-Muslim Forum (via Aporia Falls)…
Random Thoughts at 3:26PM
I survived last week! Thanks to the Pantocrator (Greek “Παντοκρατορ”) literally means “Lord (or master) of Everything (the universe)”! It was a great chance to introduce this amazing Eastern Orthodox Icon linking it to the text I used for the message yesterday, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6. ” If the Good News we preach is veiled from…
Random Thoughts before I go
It’s wonderful to see Rev. Dr. Richard A. Jensen again and this time with his wife Rev. Dr. Bonnie Jensen. His classes on preaching a number of years ago before my ordination I think, and the three books he gave me (which he was the author) really helped me along the way. Most of all…
Random Thoughts Returns …
I really found this temporary work space I have (in the picture above) to be pretty inspirational the last two days … perhaps it’s the new surroundings, perhaps it’s the air-con (which works better than the one in the thinking room), perhaps it’s just being in our worship hall which we call the Living room…
Searching the Scriptures
*this is one of my favorite pictures of Elysia lately and I think her new Godpa agrees too!* I love this quote by Martin Luther and it has helped me a lot in terms of reading the Scriptures and encountering Christ in the process, Luther’s famous words are … “The Bible is the cradle wherein…