Biblicism: A danger to Protestant theology

The centrality of the Scriptures as guide for life marked an important advance over the view that all matters of faith and life are to be ruled, sometimes rather arbitrarily, by popes and councils. At the same time it opened the way for a “paper pope” replacing the pope in Rome—hardly an advance over the [...]

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Sluggish blogging

My blogging has been sluggish lately. In fact, my posts were mostly quotes and part of the newsletter that I sent to my family and friends back home. It seems I could not think of anything else to write these days. I apologize to my readers.
The truth is I feel tired. Thinking about many things [...]

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Grace home treats the parents

Grace Home Kindergarten Center (GHKC) staff and volunteers treated the parents. GHKC is a daycare center which takes care of more or less 30 children of migrant workers from Myanmar and lately from few Thai-Muslim nationals. The day care center has become well-known recently because volunteer from America have been helping us. [...]

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Witnessing the Loi Krathong

Loi Krathong is being celebrated here in Thailand. The 12th full moon for this falls on the 24th day of November. We were not aware that many people were gathered at the waterways. The waterways are actually open canals that are being used for irrigation. That is I thought those waterways are for. But [...]

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Witnessing the Loi Krathong

Loi Krathong is being celebrated here in Thailand. The 12th full moon for this falls on the 24th day of November. We were not aware that many people were gathered at the waterways. The waterways are actually open canals that are being used for irrigation. That is I thought those waterways are for. But tonight [...]

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Bosch on Epistemological priority of the Scripture

Contrary to natural sciences, theology relates not only the present and the future, but also to the past, to tradition, to God’s primary witness to humans. Theology must undoubtedly always relevant and contextual, but this may never be pursued at the expense of God’s revelation in and through the history of Israel and, supremely, the [...]

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About the header picture

The header picture is the overview of the town at the border. We live more or less three kilometers from the site. I took the picture while I was sitting-in in a church planting seminar on the rooftop of a hotel. If you will look closely, you can see the flags of the two countries. [...]

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Sign blooper

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Church unity and mission

Darkness comes early this time of year so I turned on the headlight of the van. I feel tired after bringing almost thirty children to their homes. As I was making a right turn, the Pastor of the Kachin church waved to us. I waved back and did a wai (prayer like posture Thai greeting) [...]

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Church unity is mission

Darkness comes early this time of year. I turned on the headlight of the van. I feel tired after bringing almost thirty children to their homes. As I was making a right turn, the Pastor of the Kachin church waved to us. I waved back and did a wai (prayer like posture Thai greeting) while [...]

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