Uncertainty

Location uncertain

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…

Hymns & songs A to Z

PTG

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…

Friends Uncertainty

Uncertain resillience

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…

Fluid

When is a good time?

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,…

The church is

Where are you?

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…

Planets

Name: HD1

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…

The church is

How am I?

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…

Fluid

East to west. Big happy.

Every individual broke out with a big smile. Some were gigglish, some sheepish, some in the moment but their eyes in a flash of time reflection and the relief and joy in their smile is the real presence. From ear to ear, they can’t hold back their smile. Or in…

Music discipleship

Faith by grace and work

We can’t earned grace Grace is gift from God. We cannot work for it. Work can’t increase faith Our faith can increase (e.g. becomes “stronger”) and often events can cause it. But this is misleading. What increases faith is our knowing God, more and more; that we continuously reflect on…