Three-Point Sermon

Three-Point Sermon

by | Jan 9, 2014 | 2014, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty

Recently, a scene from the movie The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) came to mind: Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is...
Ambushed by Grace

Ambushed by Grace

by | Jun 12, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Church, Community, God, God's Grace

The past two weeks have been pretty challenging ones. Dad was discovered to have a life-threateningly low heart rate of 36 when we took him in for his regular appointment with his geriatrician. She insisted on warding him immediately. That night, his heart rate...
Angel with a “Bindi”

Angel with a “Bindi”

by | May 29, 2013 | 2013, Articles, God, God's Grace

The lorry behind me kept flashing its lights. It had been behind me for a while but it had not stopped flashing its headlamps. I was alone, driving to Senai, Malaysia to speak at a retreat for youth workers. It was a lonely stretch of highway and the lorry on my tail...
Angry Lesson

Angry Lesson

by | Feb 11, 2013 | 2013, Articles, God, God's Love, Jesus, Jesus' Life

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are...