Lay Catholic Seeks Judicial Review of Bishop’s Ordination of a Deacon
This is a piece of recent news with a strange twist. That’s how HK churches usually pick their leaders, and in this case deacons, in the Catholic Church. This piece will explore how far secularism has eaten into the core of churches ….
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 …
On Worship: on-line vs in-person
This will be at best controversial. Some might say confrontational. But it’s just contrarian. Even contributing. Internet has been around for ages. It was the target of derision, that it was the tool of the devil …
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 …
Concerning Sermons (4): Preacher, it’s never about you!
God has entrusted you a message. It is for us. Why then do you get in the way? Why then see it as fans getting and applause collecting event? If it is about us the recipients, then speak our language …
Concerning Sermons (3): Converse Not Teach
Preacher, please don’t teach anymore. I long to converse. Can you do that in your sermon? I knew my failures. I knew my hurts. I knew my guilt and shame. You don’t seem to know. Do you know what I need …
Concerning Sermons: Hearing with Heart (2): Mentolatry
Senior Pastors from mega churches of the Alliance and Evangelical Free denominations all committed a cardinal mistake. Cardinal, because it sets the wrong path for many sermons to follow …
The Name of Jesus
I have all the respect in the world for Christians who have a passionate reaction towards the utterance of “Jesus”. Some sincerely believe that name is sacrosanct, shouldn’t be named in vain. I respect that. Others equally …
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 ...