One of my elders, Dr. Khong preached a real good sermon today, simply titled "Love and Change".

He challenged us to see that while God is eternal, the world is ...   more »

by Jack and JR

what if the sky is red?
from the colours of the sun at dusk
like an artist splattering blood
carelessly across heavenly canvas.

do you feel heaven's anger?

spread by the soft winds of the dimming sky

that sky red, yes, but the earth redder

soaked in the blood of those who died.

 

what if trembling hands

of tortured minds (or what was left),

forgotten they were men

and thirst for fellow men's blood and death?

 

do you feel heaven's pain?

in every bullets sprayed at innocent lives

heaven's tears gushed from the slained

of the government's dirty gunfires.

 

what if the faceless sage

who has face only for the troubled world

for peace amidst that maddening rage

turned his face at the worst evil?

 

do you hear heaven's righteous will

in the silent footsteps on the battered street

the earth is red, the saffron redder still

which cries for the oppressed voiceless meek

 

 

 

(images taken from everywhere on the Internet)

 

On the other hand, our Deputy PM (whom I gladly didn't vote and will never vote for) issued his loving advice:

 

“we would like to remind our citizens in Myanmar not to interfere in the country’s domestic problems,” he said, adding that Malaysians should refrain from participating in any street demonstration for their own good. (here)

 

Looks like many Malaysian didn't quite heed the advice of their ayahanda Dato Seri - check out a troubling but thought provoking reflection by a friend

 

 

Jan was right, we do not know which is worst, "sitting here and not knowing what to do or huddled up together calling for God!" (see here for the news: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/23/ap3940481.html) Every man and woman on this planet, I am sure wonder, will there ever be peace. And the Church many times loudly proclaimed, Yes, there is peace and we'll have it. Yes, we've got the Prince of Peace. Yes, peace be with you. But behind these confident (and loud) proclaimations, behind the sermons of peace and the greetings of peace we hear so often within the comfort of our church halls, are most unfortunately a bunch of passive peacelovers.    more »

We often hear Christians say, we must "spread the gospel", or "share the gospel" (I would personally use the more pompous words "proclaim or declare the gospel"). But as with the usage of other words in any languages, familarity breeds contempt, or rather familarity breeds complacency. Christians may take it for granted that we know and understand this term well. And often, the meaning of words may be diluted in our over-usage.   more »

For so many weeks of being absent and for the weird website you arrived at here; we were required to write a short report on our experience in Africa, so here goes mine:   more »