My brother posted this short but precious little update on his Facebook wall a couple of days after Tessa was born. I like it so much, I thought I should share it here so it gets preserved instead of being lost in the temporal rapids of wallposts and shared links in Facebook-land.
Something that my father-in-law said this morning really struck me. We were talking about my work helping to set up an online networking website to link all the marketplace Christian fellowship groups that have been around for decades, but never really collaborated for synergy. He was pointing out the occasional excuse people give for not [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday in Vic’s room i picked up “Tuesday with Morris” and started reading. An old and dying professor shares with his young grad student his journey of facing death and taught him how to live life differently— by knowing how he wants to die. A few weeks back we watched a Japanese movie titled “Departures”. [...]
… 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 [...]
On the third year of starting our dating relationship, to the very day (22.11.2007), I asked the woman God had brought into my life three years ago whether she would marry me. Happily she agreed! Sometime in 2003 I distinctly remember starting a new stage of prayer, where I began asking God if he was [...]
Vic and I could have met in Year 1999, through a post- mission trip prayer meeting that gathered all the Love Japan Project participants. He was a participant of Team Nagano, while I was a participant of Team Tokyo. That day Vic was standing in front playing the piano for the band, and I remember [...]
Devotional: My Utmost for His Highest
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