tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69860052039196170462011-06-07T23:47:01.301-07:00Many thoughts. Many experiences. One journey.Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-61446808584411816572008-09-23T13:48:00.000-07:002008-09-28T08:13:22.775-07:00

Law school hasn’t been easy and I don’t think it will get any easier. Coming from someone who grew up in a comfortable well-off Chinese Christian family in West Vancouver, who has never worked for a day in his life and spends most of his time in the church, coming to face the reality of this world is extremely difficult. Everyday on the news, in our classes, in our newspapers, we are faced with

Prosdechomaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17051687630713786153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-35538704526801395142007-05-07T16:36:00.000-07:002007-05-07T17:26:23.288-07:00

In the gospel of John, we see the evangelist uses of dualailty quite often with light and dark, good and evil, etc etc etc. You get the idea.But have we taken this dualism too far?Is the kingdom of God a left or a right?is the kingdom of God liberal or conservative?is the kingdom of God modern or postmodern?Is the kingdom of God emerging or not emerging?Is the kingdom of God catholic or

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-57235315873833333402007-02-27T11:04:00.000-08:002007-02-27T11:56:39.108-08:00

I just read this from "Generous Orthodoxy" and I was wondering what your thoughts are on it and what your thoughts are on my thoughts"In this light, although I don't hope all Buddhists will become (cultural) Christians, I do hope all who feel called will become Buddhist followers of Jesus; I believe they should be given that opportunity and invitation. I don't hope all Jews or Hindus will become

D.H. Wonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08203161971076348459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-72799209144931385882007-01-09T02:33:00.001-08:002007-01-09T02:38:44.313-08:00

I Was sitting with Andrew and Wing today at the SUB during my break and somehow the word "restoration" came out. I'm sure each of you have your own definitions and feelings towards the importance and where it stands in your journey.

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-83015133414301021612007-01-05T02:11:00.000-08:002007-01-05T13:20:32.815-08:00

I want to pick up with Unconditional election since I didn't elaborate enough from last time.Unconditional election for me also means that there is technically no human obligation for us to fulfill in order to receive salvation from God. Hence the term "saved by grace, not through works". Hence this is extremely important or else we cheapen grace. What is mercy without grace, what is salvation

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-64033911726946614222006-12-27T00:38:00.000-08:002006-12-28T00:54:44.585-08:00

Time to answer the long begotten question that Kevin left me in regard s to what I believe about TULIP back in October. Since now I have the time (and Kev reminded me, is time to continue on this conversation, shall we begin?)I'm not a big fan of doctrine nor Calvinism, but here we are: (The following are not in any order)T = Total DepravityWe need God, we have all have the tendency to sin. I'm a

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-25582564451258015332006-12-18T01:43:00.000-08:002006-12-18T02:40:27.855-08:00

It's been a long while since anyone has posted anything on our conversational blog, since I'm still awake, I decide maybe I should write something for the Christmas holidays...I titled this part of my thought as restoration after Gary's insight to Velvet Elvis, because within me, I believe we could do so much, to elaborate on how we are to try to restore this world to a place God intended it to

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-1363411279491724992006-11-12T00:50:00.001-08:002006-11-12T00:50:30.919-08:00

I have just finished reading the last chapter of Rob Bell's book. And the last chapter carries yet another powerful message and idea. It talks about the idea of restoration and reconciliation from God - and not just for mankind alone, but for all of creation. This was something that I've never thought about before. Reconciliation and restoration for all of creation. Many times, I've heard

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144694409405077727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-92084860179606589242006-11-05T18:13:00.000-08:002006-11-05T18:32:32.253-08:00

Have I so much concentrated on the study of the word, the theology, the way our culture is affected that I have neglected the people around me? Have I become what Jesus taught not us to be, someone who cares so much about the style or reading, the search for the true meanings, the traditions, but neglected what Jesus, my Rabbi has taught, to love and care for the people around me?It certainly

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-2769630458307409752006-10-31T01:48:00.000-08:002006-11-02T13:42:15.701-08:00

To answer some of the questions left by Kevin in my last post, I've decided to answer quickly as November shall become a crazy month for me and I will (if I can withhold from posting) stop posting until November is over. I think we've began an awesome conversation within the last few weeks since the start of T'shuva, although it has been mainly subjected to me posting, but the conversation

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-84907989746167046562006-10-30T00:10:00.001-08:002006-10-30T14:16:19.715-08:00

I recently had a conversation with Wing about the terms "emerging" vs "emergent" which I believed in classification of post-modern church means something different. Then Dan threw in the "Post-Emergent" where we take the best of the crop and start our own kind of thing.After a little research (something I find myself doing a bit too often in the last month) I've found some answers to justify for

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-90722001757383588042006-10-26T03:23:00.000-07:002006-10-26T03:48:12.716-07:00

We go through the Bible day in day out being taught such terms that the scriptures are: authority, inerrant, infallible, revelation, objective, absolute, and literal. These are so important that some churches make it their core belief in that. But were in the Bible does it say they are any of those things?For one, how can the layman of today understand those terms we often say the Bible is

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-69527573918504185002006-10-23T14:19:00.000-07:002006-10-23T14:32:33.142-07:00

nothing like civil war. i was waiting for this to happen. there is always someone somewhere who disagrees especially when it comes to something as sensitive as faith. they'll always think they are right and the others will always think they are right and then they will precede to fight to the death over some truth that they probably both haven't grasped.what am i talking about?i present to you

D.H. Wonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08203161971076348459noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-90267267698977503132006-10-05T01:38:00.000-07:002006-10-05T02:16:07.579-07:00

So I was listening to this talk given by Brian McLaren the other day and what he thought Christianity was like when he grew up. He said life is like a box of jigsaw puzzles and our point of life was to put this puzzle together. Now jigsaw puzzle boxes have the picture of what the completed puzzle should look like. So in this sense, people will try to follow the picture to figure out the puzzle.

Eugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420045739116184174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986005203919617046.post-27084364168895767072006-09-27T02:08:00.000-07:002006-09-27T02:36:31.025-07:00

T'Shuva is the Hebrew word meaning "to repent" or "to return". I personally like the definition of "Return". To return to what you might ask? To return to the truths of what following Jesus means. The reason why I use the word return is because truth isn't new, truth was, is and always will be there, is just a matter of us "rediscovering" it. We are on that journey to rediscover, to dust off, to

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