sin, damning sin
Mark Driscoll's been preaching on Christian Doctrine for the past eight weeks. I'm currently at number 5, the Fall: God Judges. Excellent sermon and challenging content.
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Archive for May, 2008
forty-five, forty-seven (i think)
The title's about how old my parents are. Your guess on who's older.
I just had a two hour conversation with my Dad and Mom about SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), an XML object parsing protocol normally associated with web services; the application of Christian ethics in business, including my father's knowledge of sweatshops in China; growing up as a man; and (this one was from my mom) being a reliable husband.
I wrote off my parents as being part of the pragmatic culture, where everything is based on a sense of reputation, in essence, the Chinese idea of 'face'.1 How wrong I was. I'm thankful for my parents.2 For my mom, who always seems to be on my dad's side, even when I arrogantly think that he is wrong. I am thankful for her patience for a son who is often too serious, absent-minded, and unaffectionate for his own good. For my dad, who is the only forty-something I know that is moderately muscular (and also a good provider and protector). I am thankful to learn and laugh with him.
To whom it may concern: my parents read my blog.
Footnotes:
“i feel so empty.”
We're doing some rearranging with the toilets in our house. We have a new toilet to install in the main floor washroom and moving the existing one to the basement.
I had left the house with my dad in the process of removing the existing toilet, but to my surprise it was still there.
Nature called.
Tank was empty.
Whoops.
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put down the remote and grow up
Pursuing Manhood is a hard-hitting article. I don't know if I can play Nintendo with my brother with a clean conscience any more! Or sleep in!
God made you to work. Reject laziness. See laziness not merely as a foible but as damnable sin, a dangerous cancer that can eat away your soul. Laziness and avoidance of work is a typical sin for men, so wage a particularly diligent and merciless war against it in your own soul.
Seriously now. If I cannot be faithful in the small things (read: school work), how can I be expected to be faithful with larger things (read: committee)? My calling has already been given to me. Fulfil it.
culture culture culture (1)
Most of this post will be inspired and taken from Stott's Christian Mission in the Modern World. I highly recommend reading this book. Although it was written in 1975, the contents are still as relevant and provoking as I imagine they were back then.
Last Saturday, I went to this 'event' that was billed as a night of praise and missions. There were a couple of presentations during the night; the first one was about one man's trip to Bolivia. Jokes and things aside, it was heart-breaking to see the statistics flash across the screen, millions suffering around the world. Yet, I couldn't shake the feeling that this was another presentation linked to the resurgence in recapturing the social implications of the Gospel.
After that, a random guy came up on stage, awkwardly swaying from side to side. He speaks. "Dude, your speech is great and I'm all for helping the poor and needy, but you hardly mentioned Jesus in the whole thing. Even if you care for their physical needs, if you don't meet their spiritual need, they're going to spend eternity in hell. Next time, add more Jesus and it'll be good."
Wow.
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