The sermon on Sunday moved me to think about shattered glass. I left with a burdened heart, carrying the word back. We notice glass in our daily lives in many forms that range from shower screens in our baths to our gadgets and the beauty of Kuala Lumpur’s skyline. Glass can be very fragile yet […]
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The parable of the wheat and the tares (weeds) is one of the lections (readings) for this Sunday. Like all good parables, it doesn’t make immediate sense. Even after reading the explanation given by Jesus. It’s a parable, a simple story with deep, mystical meaning, often pushing the hearer into a corner, confronting him or
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“A year of colour and sex” is how the author puts it. He gushes. Over what? Over the abundant flowering of trees. In the jungles. He begins: It has been a year of colour and sex for the lowland rainforests of Malaysia and Indonesia. This [2019] is a “mast year,” when dozens of tree species
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“Please like and subscribe.” This is the ubiquitous catch-phrase found in every YouTube video. Then there is the tongue in cheek response by stand-up comic Jocelyn Chia when she said “Honestly, if Interpol did something about this request and things escalated, can you imagine how famous it is going to make me?”[1] Why is it
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We want to be smart. We want our kids to be smart. We mortgage our properties, exhaust our savings, in order to send our kids to universities. We love degrees. We read reports, books, stories. We love learning. The gospel selection in this Sunday’s lectionary reading, Matthew 11:16-19; 25-30, feels like a smack in our
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What happens when 19 people from 19 cities around the world journey together for nine days in a Lutheran World Federation (LWF) lay leaders seminar?[1] Mishaps Some miss flights and lose their luggage. The delegate from Kenya arrived a day late, minus her suitcase. She only got it back after she arrived home! But she
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A friend (who kept chickens as pets) told me a profound observation: “If a chicken starts to look towards the skies, it’s a sign that the chicken is going to die.” He was speaking about a condition called wry necks or stargazing chicken which is a disease.[1] I was also reading John 17 at that
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“I couldn’t get Coldplay tickets” I moaned to a friend. “Why do you want to go? Aren’t you afraid of Covid?” she retorted. “You don’t even want to participate in church events, yet you want to go to a concert?” she remarked, exposing my hypocrisy. This Coldplay concert also turned into a political issue, with
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What are “Luther sites”?What do people do/learn on Luther study trips to Germany?This is what 28 Malaysians did and learned during the 2023 trip.
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In my previous post, I told 5 stories from Eisleben. I wrote it as a commentary on five photos I took on the day we went to Eisleben. But there’s more to say about that day, Monday, day eight. In Eisleben we visited the residences in which Martin Luther was born, and in which he
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