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Blogging Hiatus

Posted in Ponderings on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am in some kind of blogging hiatus. Narlin will be going home in two weeks to attend the Philippine Women Missionary Union (PWMU) ins Davao. Most of our regular  supporters are women, so we owe it to them to give them a glimpse of what we are doing here in Mae Sai. I am [...]

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Moltmann on purgatory

Posted in Jurgen Moltmann, purgatory on March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The real basis for the doctrine of purgatory is neither scripture nor tradition, but the ‘church’s practice of prayer and penance’. Since the beginning–so argument runs–there have been in the church prayers for the dead, good works, almsgiving, personal penitential practices, and the acquisition of indulgences, vicariously applicable to the dead, which free them from [...]

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A glimpse… whatever

Posted in Stories on March 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Narlin will go home to the Philippines for three weeks. She will attend the Philippine Women Missionary Union (PWMU) Triennial Meeting. I was hoping all of us could go but the airfare for five persons costs too much. This means I will stay alone with the children for three weeks. I cannot imagine life with [...]

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Rambo in Burma

Posted in Movies, Rambo on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The most talked about Hollywood movie here right now is Rambo 4. Our Burmese friends love it so much. And they were amazed to know that Stallone speaks Burmese. Our co-worker wants us to watch the movie so badly that he rented a CD copy for us. When I slid the CD into the player [...]

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The Bible: not a textbook in theology

Posted in Knud Jørgensen, mission on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Jason pointed out a fascinating essay by Knud Jørgensen, the director of the Areopagos Foundation in Norway/Denmark and assistant professor at the Norwegian School of Theology. He is also a member of the Lausanne Theology Working Group. You can read the entire post here. For the meantime here is the interesting excerpts:

The New Testament narratives [...]

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The pain of unity

Posted in General on March 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It continues to pain my heart to see disunity among Christians. When Narlin and I went for a short mission trip three years ago, I attended a Baptist church in Nonthaburi. We met a couple who were worshipping and working in that church. They were also from the same place where we were living back [...]

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