Tag: faith
Well, it’s Day 4 of our new journey in Taiwan. We arrived safely last Wednesday and we were warmly welcomed by a fellow co-worker. To date, there are daily communications in the form of personal visits, phone calls, and messages from one or more of our new co-workers here in Taipei. All of them are truly happy to have us as part of the team here, and all of them empathise with our daily struggle as we transition into life here. However, the culture shock is setting in quicker than I expected. It just hit me in the face. Honestly,…
I love Joseph. He’s now two years old. My greatest concern is how I will equip Him in life and faith. 10 years ago, this was a distant thought; instead I was challenged by the secularist university around me and how I would live out my faith among my friends and peers. The encouragement and assurance I needed to hear then and the encouragement and assurance I need today are quite different. I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is…
I am weary. I am distracted. My spirit is willing, but my mind and body are weak. I am spiritually lethargic. The fellowship of my spiritual brothers and sisters alone carry the passions of my soul, yet alone I find myself dragging my spiritual feet in the dirt of dreariness. The opening of one of David’s psalms (Psalm 6) reads: O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled. But…
In response to A holiday message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist “Why do you believe in God?” Unlike the popular comedian, Ricky Gervais, I don’t get asked that a lot. Nor do I have the public forum in which to share my views on my beliefs. Yet, his article only reinforces and articulates the very perspective which people will never understand, including Christians, about why they believe in God. What Mr. Gervais has to say, has all been said before, by atheists from my friends to those in the public eye. It’s nothing new, he just articulates it…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 26:1-29:11 Focus: 1 Samuel 28:4-7, 15-19 You ever wonder if it’s ever possible that God no longer listens to someone… that God would turn His back on someone… that God would, heaven forbid, reject someone?! It’s hard to say, it raises questions of our own treatment of God, our relationship with God, and a whole lot of others. It certainly isn’t something that I really want to even consider in regards to my own life, that God would stop listening and speaking…
