One of the films that greatly impacted me is called Pay it Forward. The story is about a boy with an idea to transform the world. The idea is that…
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I learned a new word in my research for today’s sermon: curlicue. A curlicue is a fanciful twirl, such as a flourish made with a pen. It is a pattern…
Last month, FIFA ruled that Chelsea had induced teenager Gael Kakuta to breach his contract with Lens and join the Blues in 2007. For that, they were sanctioned from signing…
An American writer once told this story, “There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at…
One of the most peculiar aspects of this last story of Judges is that there are no names given in the story. Well technically there is one in 20:28, Phinehas…
“Three rabbis are having a discussion on a particular difficult moral conundrum. Rabbi #1 is taking a contrary position to Rabbis #2 and #3. Rabbi #1 is pretty sure he’s…
Today’s topic is “Actions speak louder than words” 事实胜于雄辩. I asked my wife if such a topic is even necessary. Shouldn’t everybody already know this simple truth? Surprisingly, she said…
She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee, her dress has got a tear. She waltzes on her way to Mass, and whistles on the stair. And underneath her wimple,…
In my sermon 2 weeks ago, I spoke of the minor judges Ibzan, Elon and Abdon. Like a commercial intermission between the main programs of Jephthah and Samson, they highlighted…
The sermon series on Judges this year is proving to be very challenging for the speakers. There are moral ambiguities to grapple with and theological conundrums to solve. But the…
In the past week, something quite extraordinary happened. US President Barack Obama conceded a battle yet in doing so, he won a war. This is the time of the year…
I have broken up the story on the next judge into smaller parts over the next few weeks because there are many unique issues to deal with. And true enough,…
Last week’s sermon topic was a reflection of the phrase “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”. 权力使人腐化；绝对的权力使人绝对的腐化。I would like to introduce another phrase as the reflection topic for today: “Those…
This is the third sermon on Gideon. So far we have been focusing on the relationship between God and Man. In the first, I spoke about the struggling and conflicting…
In Judges, we have an honest portrayal of human nature, and God’s response to his people. It may be messy, but it is much more valuable this way because it…
From this week onwards, we enter into a different segment of the book of Judges whereby we will be introduced to the judges themselves. I believe a large part of…
This year, I made a new year resolution. I want to be more honest and authentic than ever before. I want to be more honest with others, but more importantly,…
I have a music CD of a Celtic band called EKO. In the description of one of the tunes called Relativity, a play on the word ‘relatives’, there is this…
This year, we will be looking at the Christmas story from the perspective of Luke. This is something that we will be doing every three years. I think there is…
Does anyone remember the lyrics to last year’s National Day song? Or the year before? I think there are very few. But if I were to say the words, “There…