What mature Christian do…
From Tim Keller‘s Counterfeit gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters Speaking about the characteristics of a mature Christian: Our hearts are like that. We think we’ve learned about grace, set our idols aside, and reached a place where we’re serving God not for what we’re going […]
Abraham, Issac and Jesus
Why had Isaac not been sacrificed? The sins of Abraham and his family were still there. How could a holy and just God overlook them? Well, a substitute was offered, a ram. But was it the ram’s blood that took away the debt of the firstborn? No. Many years later, in those mountains, another firstborn […]
Discernment: The Long Way
Challies.com gave a great illustration why we need to learn to discern for ourselves. He compare it with doing long division. Sometimes it is the long way that is the right way. No Google. No blogs. No opinions. Just between me, the Word and the Holy Spirit. Long way is never easy. As I always […]
Dignity
“Why are you giving this to me in this place? Can’t you see there are people I know around here?” – R replied as we are standing in an underground food court. My friend was holding a sleeping bag that was for R. He was offended. A good lesson on dignity. No one enjoys being […]
Christmas Lunch…
“Where’s everyone?” My pastor asked as I was setting chairs and the tables in the social hall. I replied, “I do not know. They should be coming.” Yesterday was an unusual Saturday. My normal routine was to go to the Y, swim, then bike for a few hours. Instead, I found myself in my church’s […]
Not just doing good things…
Why should Christians share? Why should we give? Why should I give? Just want to post up a few pointers before I head to bed. There are two points: i) For myself A while ago I was doing a paper on Christian Ethics. I was studying on the Rich man and Lazarus. It is the […]
Thoughts
A few days ago I was listening to a podcast. The speaker mentioned that North America is the only continent with decline in Christianity. My heart sank…. A few months ago, I wrote a blog post in response of a youtube video, Tears of the Saints. Whenever I see that video, it still brings a […]
Say no and do vs say and not do
I was reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan and something caught my eye. The Parable of the Two Sons 28″What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ 29″ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he […]
Mission as identity -> Mission as Community?
“It (Church) is not what you do on Sunday. It is who you are. To be a Christian is to be part of God’s people to express that life, your life through belonging to a Christian community. The heart of the mission of God is the creation of the people of God.” – Tim Chester […]
Repost: Saving the world…one purchase at a time
Jesus said: by this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.Or was that, if you wear the right gear? Source: http://mattstone.blogs.com/christian/2009/10/saving-the-world-one-purchase-at-a-time.html