Systematic Theology Blogs

I discovered theology blogs unintentionally while browsing the discussion group on Jurgen Moltmann. Blogging itself is a new idea for me and it is still. After reading some good theology blogs and the discussions that ensue after hot and fresh theological ideas had been posted, I reckon that I am learning a lot, sometimes more [...]

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Immanent Religions From Christian Perspective

This post is a continuation of Macquarrie’s distinction of religions seen from Christian perspective. This time it is historically coherent to start from the farthest end of the series. In other words, we will start from the outermost and work our way nearest to the center.
The farthest end of this series is fetishism. [...]

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Good attendance

We had a record breaking attendance in our morning worship service since we arrived last January. This can be considered good in a predominantly Buddhist country. The back of the church building were usually vacant was filled with people yesterday. The worship service was indeed a blessing to a mixture of believers who attended. [...]

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Transcendence Religions from Christian Pespective

I have been reading John Macquarrie’s book Principle of Christian Theology and I believe he has some very good insights about religion in chapter 7 of this book. I found this book while browsing at the library of my friend, a Pastor in a church here in northernmost part of Thailand. He allowed me [...]

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Our Hands Are Full

God has been doing great things in our lives. Although sometimes I have this funny feeling that I can do things without God’s help but deep inside I know I just couldn’t. I have this growing perception that ultimately He is on top of things. Perhaps it is true that we can accomplish few things [...]

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Compassion

Narlin is attending a Compassion seminar in a city 5 hours away. We are praying together with Angela that this seminar will be very useful for our children’s ministry here.
I am left alone here in the house looking after the children and “supervising” their homeschooling. This time however, I found out that I can actually [...]

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Missions Video Presentation

You may want to see this video presentation of our missions activities.

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Grace Learning Center

Within three months, the number of children we are taking care of increased from twelve to twenty five. We are glad to share that Filipino Short Term Missionaries from Pangasinan had done most of the work in developing the children’s center.Dadai Dela Paz and Chriz Gaid worked fulltime in making the center conducive for learning [...]

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The Cross and The Spirit Houses

I saw these spirit houses in a shop for sale. I did not know if the shop owner is a Christian. Perhaps the original owner of the house converted to a shop was Christian because of the cross design on the wall. The picture represents the different religious pattern of the different people groups here [...]

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Family Updates Blog

I created a new blog for our family updates. The blog is about our journey in the mission field that needs help and prayers from our partners. I thought it is sensible to have different blogs for my theological reflections and our family updates. For the meantime the first few posts may be similar [...]

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