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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 [...]
Why I must pray even when I don’t feel like it
I’m feeling very convicted by what I read in Don Carson’s book, “A Call to Spiritual Reformation“. Some time ago I developed a very strange way to evaluate my prayer life that actually led me to pray less. Originally this helped to alleviate my feelings of guilt about not being as prayerful as the giants [...]
Applying the Gospel to my self-leadership
In my bible reading I have come to the passage in Ezekiel 34. The first 10 verses (Ezek 34:1-10) is a scathing condemnation of Israel’s kings. They are the shepherds of the people. And while this is about Israel’s history, I feel safe to make the generalisation: no one is righteous and good. For Israel, [...]
Lessons of a first-time husband
Married to Candy for seven months now, I can’t say it’s been as difficult and drastic an adjustment as what I’d imagined, going by the well-meaning warnings from married friends. I know, we’re probably still in our honeymoon period, and the inevitable clashes from two sinful individuals having to face their imperfections twenty-four-seven weekly may [...]
As iron sharpens iron
… so one man sharpens another. This proverb came up in my reading this morning. Dr Don Carson commented on this verse (Proverbs 27:17) noting that ours is a culture where “rabid individualism holds sway”, and it is always an uphill battle to fight against the temptation to seek no man’s correction, or even his [...]
