God who sustains our marriage
Whenever someone I’ve known is Christian and is going to get married, I will often send him or her this quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer: It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. How I read it before is that from now on, it is […]
Acting like an athiest
In the past few weeks, I’ve been evaluating the things which make me anxious. I believe there are ungodly beliefs, and God is training me to trust in Him more. Oswald Chambers once wrote that when disaster strikes or when pressure comes, a Christian will act like an atheist. That is, they act as if […]
David’s Anointing
This post is more of a prelude to David coming into the scene in the Bible. His first famous achievement is defeating Goliath. I plan to go into that later, but I like to set up the stage on who David is. After God rejected Saul as King of Israel, God told Samuel to go […]
Rush
Today I went to Toronto General Hospital to see my transplant doctor. Traveling from Mississauga, I rushed to downtown at 7:30 to make it to the 9:30 am appointment. Rush out the door and stuck in traffic.Rush to find a parking lot and run into the subway.Rush past people to check myself in at the […]
Cliff’s guide on how to become a better paintball player
Last week during church camp, some of the younger fellas (in their early 20s) asked me to join them to play paintball. Growing up, I never played any team sports or considered myself athletic (I still don’t). The first ‘sport’ I got into was paintball. Though many do not considered as a sport, for […]
This blog is moving…..
Hi everyone, I want to thank you for reading and subscribing my blog all these years. I am sure you noticed since I came to Singapore I hadn’t been as active in posting. I apologize for that. I hope you find this blog an encouragement. I never consider myself much of a blogger. This blog […]
Easier life or stronger man?
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your task.” – Phillip Brooks
My Missionary Manual: So I send you
I picked this from my wife’s bookshelve when I first got married. This is perhaps one of the best books I read on preparing as a missionary for a long time. I always learn a lot from Oswald Chambers’ writings. I read his devotions, My Utmost for His Highest, on a daily basis. This book […]
What does it mean to help the poor?
This has been the question on my mind for a while now…. Tomorrow, my wife and I will share about poverty to teenagers at a school. As I am preparing my slides, I re-read When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself. The author used a classic illustration of how sometimes […]
Six Months
A long overdue post. Sorry. Sometimes, the longer I don’t blog, the longer I don’t want to. It is probably because I feel like I missed so much already. But sometimes it is good to come back to an old habit that helps you jot down and reflect upon a portion of your life. Six […]