Being realistic sometimes sound like we have over-complicated reality, over-thought it, or we are taking a course of action (or thought) discounting most, or all, of reality. For example, in getting ready for my driving test, I also discover that it is going to be raining. Not too heavy enough…
Grace and work. Grace or work. It can’t be grace or work, grace without work is like to experience grace by avoiding work. Work without grace is solely self-belief which sounds like self-destructing. In All, All of it, it is the fullness in size, volume, determination, everything that is mental,…
Always take some money with you, a senior in the family said. In the event you are robbed, at least you have some cash to give, and high chance you will not be harmed. There are meanings in words being said. “Watch out for the cars” is for our…
In music discipleship (click to see series), we want to grow in faith – to know God more and more. For musicians and others involved in worship regularly, much of our sacrifice in worship is “doing”. Nothing fundamentally wrong about the “doing”. From the story of Mary and Martha (Luke…
This is a frequent bus service serving an airport. As you pass the stop you will either see one bus waiting there, or if none there, one will arrive very soon. Today, no bus. The road is in construction. The stop itself is blocked off. Where do you go to…
How many worship songs or hymns do we know that begin with “P”? Here is one: Preach the Gospel, sound it forth,Tell of free and full salvation;Spread the tidings o’er the earth,Go to every tribe and nation. This hymn has short phrases, very direct, “punchy”, action-oriented. Similar to some of…
Resillience – it’s one of those good characteristic to have. Look in the mirror, it’s my shifty eyes, downward composure, and uncertainty with where to put my arms that give away someone lacking in confidence let alone resillience. As I chatted with my friend over some time, he looked the…
Time – we cannot control it. When is a good time is an even more abstract question – Without fullness of time, we can only judge a time is “good” against history, or possible future Out of three three: Way, Truth, and Life; the first two are arguably beyond time,…
In music discipleship (click to see series), we want to grow in faith – to know God more and more. To compare, let’s take a mirror to “discipleship”. A great way to capture meaning of discipleship is to know God and make God known to others, described in “First look…
How often do we ask ourselves “Where are you?” Many, many times. A very regular question. On the phone, on web messaging, social media apps. The “where are you?” also asks about the imaginery “where”, for example, on which page and on which paragraph / line in the book you…
Nothing too distinctive about something with the name of HD1. Nothing much, till the fact dawns that it might not exist, or rather, we might not exist while it exists or existed. HD1 is, at the time of writing, a newly discovered galaxy situated 13.5 billion light-years away. Its presence…
How often do we ask ourselves “How am I?” or “How are we?” For individuals, we probably ask this, in private, to ourselves, very regularly throughout the day. It’s an important question as we need to take care of ourselves. Not doing that, we might lost touch of our own…
