Luke recorded for us a very interesting story, about two travelers, one anonymous one named Cleopas, on the road to Emmaus.
Richard Bauckham wrote that Cleopas (highly likely the same chap in John 19:25 and according to Eusibus, a relative of Jesus) was probably the main reference of this tradition and therefore his name being highlighted [...]
Josh asked a weird question, a question we probably take for granted most of the time: Where is Jesus Christ?
And he tied in the question to the eucharist (lit. “good gift”). Where is Jesus Christ? He is in the bread and wine.
Presence is more than physical. It is probably nearer to sex the way Josh had [...]
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Thanks Bob for the wonderful song
I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:
The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
The love that never falters, the love [...]
If there is a common denominator of human experience, it must be the experience of pain and suffering.
I used to think alot about the “why” question when it comes to the issue of suffering. I think this is really a western philosophy-sort of thinking. Eastern traditions such as buddhism, taoism and confuciusism were concern with the more existential [...]
I wrote the below last year 2007 for FES's World Students' Day…
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“Sleeves Rolled Up”
Again and again, during my times in PKV (Persaudaraan Kristian Varsiti - UM's CF) we were challenged with these strong words: The Church is becoming irrelevant. It was as though the statement was hammered hard into my head, making me ask myself, [...]
It's easier to explain to non Christians than to Christians why I am in an Opposition party - but well, DAP is now the GOVERNMENT of Penang, how's that Church?
For one, there is always the cold, “apolitical-ness” approach which the Church in Malaysia adopted.
This is probably for most bred by the culture of fear [...]
I love to say, we are not called to “do church” but to live life.
Yesterday, I bought a great book by Jurgen Moltmann, “Experiences in Theology”. He say it better than I did:
What the church is about is something more than the church. The church is about life in proximity to the kingdom of God, [...]
I will not fork out money to buy The Star, I told myself after the dissapppointing episodes of dishonest journalism top-down ever since BERSIH 10/11.
But last Sunday, I did - RM1.50 to the coffer of The People's-as-if Paper, because the small caption on the front page was too interesting to be passed: Christians and [...]
One of my elders, Dr. Khong preached a real good sermon today, simply titled “Love and Change”.
He challenged us to see that while God is eternal, the world is not, human beings are not and definitely church traditions, however cherished, are not. These are all subjected inevitably to changes.
He was questioning, without mentioning the [...]
Necessary truth depends not on the actual occurence of particular events, but on whether a proposition is true by definition; on whether, for example, it is part of the very concept of triangularity that the sum of the angles of a triangle should amount to 180 degree [regardless of our experience and perspective]. By contrast, [...]
