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Embarking on our first family trip overseas
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Mission Trip to Laoag City
Next month Candy, Tessa and I will be going to Laoag City in the Philippines for a mission trip. We’d like to share what we’ll be doing and ask you to remember us in your prayers. Partnering the churches in Northern Philippines When our team leader Sharon was at the Lausanne conference in Cape Town [...]
Preaching the Gospel to Ourselves
A personal lesson on the gospel and our heart As my teammate Liling and I work on program development for our upcoming mission trip, we struggled with this question: how much of the gospel are we experiencing personally? As one pastor writes: ”The more deeply we understand and experience law and gospel, the more capable we [...]
Reflections on the Gospel and the Polls
A week ago when the election date was announced and rallies started, I came across a friend’s Facebook post. I liked what he wrote so much that I’ve asked his permission to re-post it here, since I can’t publicly link to his Facebook note. — Reflections on the Gospel and the Polls by Tan Huai [...]
What happened the night Tessa was born
On the ninth of July, our firstborn child, a girl, was born to us. When we took the taxi to Gleneagles to check-in at 9pm, we were preparing for a typical normal labour process. Little did we expect that with tremendous drama (like we were on the set for ER) our doctor rushed into the [...]
Where we spent our second wedding anniversary
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Two yrs ago today we formed a new family. Thankful to celebrate that covenant with an additional member this year!
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She’s smiling so much more now (updated with more pics)
Today Tessa woke up with a lot of loud passing of wind. But she didn’t cry. When I proceeded to massage her tummy, she gave that very still, pinched-mouth look. Candy says that’s her ‘bangsai’ face (special face for when she has bowel movements, for the uninitiated). But the highlight was when I started singing [...]
Session 4 of IDMC: The Rhetoric of Symbols and Structures
My notes from the sessions at IDMC continue. This is session 4: The Rhetoric of Symbols and Structures Seeing with New Eyes The prime symbol in the OT: The ark of the covenant – a symbol of the Presence of God with his people. In Joshua 3:16, why did God cause the water to rise [...]
