Steven Sim

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think - Jean-Paul Sartre

Post archive for ‘World’

Fun/d(4)

Alas, I didn’t go along for the markets tour this morning…
Instead…
Guna, David Marshel, Veanu and I went to Kg. Baru Market at 9am today to collect donations for the victims of recent disasters in China and Myanmar…
We got this…

4 boys
3 hours
1 market
RM1545.50
and a little bit of blessings to fellow human beings in China and Myanmar. [...]

Dr. Khong's Sermon Today: Love and Change(0)

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 [...]

Let My People Go!(3)

by Jack and JR
what if the sky is red?from the colours of the sun at dusklike an artist splattering bloodcarelessly across heavenly canvas.
do you feel heaven's anger?
spread by the soft winds of the dimming sky
that sky red, yes, but the earth redder
soaked in the blood of those who died.
 
what if trembling hands
of tortured minds (or what was left),
forgotten they [...]

Give Us Voice to Cry(0)

Almighty God,

Give us voice to cry.
Help us to pray.
 

We look to you, in times like this,
For mercy and for grace
How can we even hope in goodness in face with such rampant evils.
And these evils only served as a mirror to ourselves
A reminder that our hearts are as depraved, if not worse.
 
Our hearts, helpless and weak
Cry [...]

Too Long Have I Lived Among Those Who Hate Peace(1)

Jan was right, we do not know which is worst, “sitting here and not knowing what to do or huddled up together calling for God!” (see here for the news: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/23/ap3940481.html)
Every man and woman on this planet, I am sure wonder, will there ever be peace. And  the Church many times loudly proclaimed, Yes, there [...]

The Euangelion(2)

We often hear Christians say, we must “spread the gospel”, or “share the gospel” (I would personally use the more pompous words “proclaim or declare the gospel”). But as with the usage of other words in any languages, familarity breeds contempt, or rather familarity breeds complacency. Christians may take it for granted that we know [...]

War and Peace(0)

Give me that bloody sword
And the broken arrow head,And all the iron ore,Cast'd in hateful state.Bring me the hearts of stone,Fount of lustful desiresThat burn with furious passionsOf angry hellish fire.Bring me every woman and man Who repays hate with hateWho lives a hand for a handWho plants evil in evil's stead.Give me all of theseThe sins of [...]

Africa(0)

For so many weeks of being absent and for the weird website you arrived at here; we were required to write a short report on our experience in Africa, so here goes mine:
There is no history which is not sacred history. As the Church struggles to express the new blueprint of being human as shown [...]

When The Dragon and The Tiger Clashes(0)

When the dragon and tiger clashes;

the dust is stirred, the air becomes foul and many unpleasant things will surface. History, more often than not will come back to haunt us. This is even more so of those unfortunate events that we want to bury away in the sand of time. Following the [...]

The World In Transit: A New Pact(0)

Since the tearing down of the Iron Curtain, Europe’s relationship with China has greatly improved, culminating today in a lucrative business and trade partnership between the two blocs. Fairly recent statistics has shown that EU held the third largest stakes in the trading industry in China and evidently, they are moving up the [...]