You can speak Thai now!

This afternoon we bought the bus ticket for our trip to Phuket tomorrow. We were trying to decide what bus company would give us the best deal (meaning the cheapest fare). We stepped backward and tried to read out the letters written in Thai and thankfully in English in the sign boards written above [...]

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Blog getaway

I am teaching Christian ethics. Teaching takes a lot of my time and almost always blogging here is always the one to give way. Under normal circumstances, I should have enough time to do things while teaching. But my situation is far from normal so to speak. I am the school bus driver, a [...]

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Blog getaway

Teaching takes a lot of my time and almost always blogging here is always the one to give way. Under normal circumstances, I should have enough time to do things while teaching. But my situation is far from normal so to speak. I am the school bus driver, a janitor in my own house, [...]

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Ten Commandments for Bible Teaching

1. Power of the Spirit—thou shalt depend upon the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish spiritual goals (1 Cor. 2:10-15).
The biblical understanding of teaching and learning process, it is the Holy Spirit who teaches, indwells, enlightens, and empowers both the teacher and the student. He is the teacher (Jn. 14:26). He does not only [...]

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What set us apart?

One of the many things I noticed when we came and started working for the poor migrants here in Mae Sai is the presence of many NGOs who are trying to do social works. Social works like orphanage, community development, health education and trainings to help people and improve the quality of life. These activities [...]

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Do not forget who you are

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you [...]

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God who provides

It has been two years since we made the decision as a family to come here in the border of Thailand-Myanmar as missionaries.
We left the cozy and friendly environment of the Baptist Seminary in Baguio and went to Manila for six months with no idea where we would get the money to spend for our [...]

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Streams of Mercy

This blog is still under construction. I haven’t much time to work in it and still have no idea on what direction this blog will take and what kind of posts you will read here. For the meantime, I will be posting some of do stuff I have been doing in my other [...]

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Bosch: Christians true identity is found in mission

Christians find their true identity when they are involved in mission, in communicating to others a new way of life, a new interpretation of reality and of God and in committing themselves to the liberation of others. A missionary community is one that understands itself as being both different from and committed to its environment; [...]

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Mission as faith in action

Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission. Grand Rapid, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans. 1995. 192 pp
Chapter 4
Newbigin claims that we can look at the contemporary issues in mission from the Trinitarian faith. Thus in chapter four of this book, he declares that mission is proclaiming the kingdom of the Father. [...]

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