Caesar’s unto Caesar
Many will cite anecdotes and legal precedents that say church and religious activities and artefacts are no longer sponsored or tolerated on state campuses. Seemingly it points to the conquest of the church …
Clean Anger
Christians who stay in HK but have been taught by local pastors firstly not to become “rioters”, then not to express or to harbour anger. Kings and authorities derive their authority from God … Therefore their anger must be clean …
Ordination
What a spectacle nowadays ordination has become! A horde of senior reverends all gather around the kneeling ordained pastor … probably have flower pinned to the lapel … hardly any indication of suffering and persecution …
Clean Reverends
For over two years these “35+” people were jailed. It took Lau Sai Leung to consistently pointed out its injustice and absurdity. No HK pastors said anything. They got used to being muted since 2019 …
Unclean Prayers
Dear Father in Heaven, God of history: On this evocative Sunday I pray to you. I confess I am a sinner, full of transgressions, some I knew and repented of, some I am still struggling with, and some I don’t even know …
Inflation
For the first time in this series’ history, a D.Min. is considered the same and therefore titled as a Doctor, just as a Ph.D. is entitled as a Doctor. Why the fuss? It is, because it is symptomatic, of a disease …
Concerning Sermons (1) : Hearing with Heart
It’s a struggle, perennial one. Heart vs mind. Such a false dichotomy. Such an imposition of phantom categories. Still rearing it’s head though in fact, it was torn apart ages ago, by Paul and …
Clean Prayers
It is almost as obnoxious as the shrieks of pigs being slaughtered in hidden rooms in the Temple. Such prayers give God goose bumps! Prayers for Ukraine suddenly became in vogue. “Pray for Ukraine!” …
Clean Christians
Why then the eerie silence in Hong Kong from priests, Protestant in particular, on matters of blatant injustice and overreach of police powers? What is to stopping a HK Christian lawyer from, in their private capacity …
Clean Para-church
You knew about Clean Church. You should know about Clean Para-Church. How many academics in theology in HK dare to stand up? … Other organisations are even purer, as they tend to limit themselves to teaching Bible …
Called to be a minister?
“You said you are called by God to offer yourself as a minister. You want me to believe that!” I mean no disrespect. I judge not their calling by their ensuing personal life or career success …
Reverence (2)
Irreverence increases with attending Sunday services. It is natural. When it wasn’t possible to worship at church, we turned to the internet ...
Reverence (1)
Irreverence increases with attending Sunday services. The Pastor who presided over the service thanked the LORD for dying on the cross. Don Carson would have a heart attack ...
Clean Church
You wouldn’t have noticed. No, you wouldn’t. By that I was referring to the increasingly plain and painful fact, that sitting thru Sunday services, on line or in person ...