The Psalms: The Voice of Humanity

We always think that the Bible as God’s voice addressing us. However, in Praying the Psalms, Walter Brueggemann believes that The Psalms with few exceptions are not the voice of God speaking to us but rather it is the voice of humanity addressing God… many of them complaints toward God.
The Psalms with a few exceptions, [...]

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Songkran Reflections

You don’t need to live long in Thailand to know that they are living different year than the Western counterpart. It’s now 2553 here. The Thai new year celebration is also called Songkran. It is celebrated on 13-15 of April. Thai people closely follow the traditional activities during the three days. Although in some [...]

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Indescribable

I have been singing and playing my guitar lately. I also had the opportunity to lead praise and worship in our church which I haven’t done since we came here in Thailand. One morning as I was preparing to go to work, I heard this song playing and I could not stop humming it. I [...]

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Theology and Culture: Thinking about God

We came here for cross-cultural ministry. Our priority is the proclamation of the Kingdom and I consider that theological education is an essential part of that ministry, the empowering of the locals to think for themselves theologically. We came here to teach about God but I realized, as perhaps other missionary found out later that [...]

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What do I love when I love God?

I’m trying my best to write my dissertation as my time is expiring. The truth is that I don’t even know how much time is left for me to finish the paper. I did not have time to write in the past two years because we are busy working in the mission field. Furthermore, my [...]

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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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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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Theology and worship

We woke up one morning with the noise playing and talking children accompanied by their parents. These families were visiting our neighbors who are worshippers of Allah. We are fully aware that we are living in a Muslim community but I didn’t realize until then that there are in the city itself. Our Muslim neighbors [...]

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Muslim and Buddhist Holidays

Today, Muslim and Buddhist holiday are celebrated at the same day. Our Muslim friend and her husband invited us for lunch. We were so honored to be considered as their special family friends. They were actually celebrating the end of the Ramadan. This is the day when their fastings end. However, they told [...]

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Is Theology Relevant in the Philippines?

My interest in theology started when I was college. It all started when my father unexpectedly became a Pastor of a Baptist Church we were attending that time. The congregation believed that he was fit to be the pastor and the senior pastor and an American missionary supported the idea. I mentioned this [...]

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