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Reflections on The Contemplative Pastor


Eugene H. Peterson, 1989, The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the art of spiritual direction, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
 
This book should be read concurrently with his memoirs, The Pastor (2011). Peterson’s thesis that pastoral work is spiritual direction is like a breath of fresh air in the numerous books on spiritual direction which focus on techniques and processes. Here, Petersen defines pastoral work as spiritual direction which is also known as soul care.

| 10 May 2012 | read more

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Is Dr Google My Competitor?


Increasingly, I find that many of my patients' parents have googled their children's problems before bringing them to see me in my clinic. Gradually, I have been eased from being the first and primary source of healthcare information by Dr Google. Should I be concerned?

| 03 May 2012| read more

more Medical   

So You Want to be a Doctor?

This is a letter written by my dear friend, Assoc. Prof. Wong from Monash University Malaysia in response to an inquiry by Daryl.


 
Dear Daryl,
Your aunt has asked that I share with you my thoughts on medicine and medical education today.

|19 Apr 2012| read more

more Medical  

 

 

Despondency in Gethsemane

Matthew 26: 36-46

 
 

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Jesus’ temptation in Gethsemane is the crisis point in salvation history and encourages us to watch and pray.

 

| 24 March 2012 | read more

 

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Rest in God's Heart

 

 

I slept, but my heart was awake. (Song of Solomon 5:2 RSV)

| 12 march 2012 | read more

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Will you be my Valentine?

 
Random Musing on Valentine’s Day 2012
 
Valentine's Day, was a Christian feast day, usually observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. There are numerous early Christian martyrs who were named Valentine which includes Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni. Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 269. Valentine of Terni was bishop of Interamna about AD 197 and may have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian. The feast day was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI.

| 14 February 2012 | read more

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Book Review on The Life and Ministry of John Sung

Lim Ka-Tong, 2012, The Life and Ministry of John Sung, Singapore: Armour Publishing


 
This is a timely and much needed book in English on the biography of evangelist John Sung who played such an important part in the revivals in China and South East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. Unfortunately, John Sung is not well known or even remembered among the contemporary churches in Asia except for a few. Among these are those who actually met Sung and whose lives were changed as a result of that meeting. Even now six decades later, these people can remember Sung clearly and with joy their remembrance of their encounter with God as a result of this meeting.

|posted 31 December 2011| read more

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Wind beneath my Wings

The sanctifying life in the Spirit

Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-23

 

 

 

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The sanctifying work of the Spirit finds its expression in rejoicing, prayer and thanksgiving. We must not quench the Spirit.

 

|posted 12 Dec 2011| read more

 

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Some Recent Postings

 

Honest to God

Booknote on Richard Rohr's Falling Upward

Thirsty for God

 

A Sick Woman and a Dead Girl

 

What I did on my Personal Retreat

 

The Marriage Vows

 

Ethical Issues raised in Captain America and the Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdoms on Earth

Christian Discernment at the Movies

Jesus Christ Very God Very Man

Thor: The Prodigal Son

Biblical Parenting

The Practice and Joy of Devotions: Lectio Divina

 

Our God Gives!

 

One Day at a Time

Batman, Inc and Spiritual Multiplication

What Will Karl Barth Do? (WWKBD)

Too Many Excuses, Too Little Following

Book Review of Volf Miroslav's Allah: A Christian Response

Christian Education and Spiritual Formation: Are We Talking about the Same Thing?

Restoring the Likeness of Christ

The Grit in True Grit

Tiger Mum Parenting

Praying the Jesus Way

 

The Rainbow of Prayer  

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Advent words 2010

Bukit Panjang Methodist Church Camp 2010

Book Review on The Element by Sir Ken Robertson

The Human Response in Spiritual Formation

The Real Thing

What Really Matters

eBook on Spiritual Formation of a People of God

Internet Addiction

 

The Best Way to Learn

 

A People Apart

Spiritual Formation Seminar with PJEFC

Praying with Our Imagination

The Elephant in the Room

The Strongest Rope

UKM Medical Fellowship Alumni Retreat 2010

Eighty Corollaries You Should Know About Christian Spiritual Formation

Book Review on McColman’s The Big Book of Christian Mysticism

Jeremiah - The Call to Be

The Lamentations of Jeremiah and the God of Jeremiah

Standing on Crossroads

 

Should Malaysian Christians Emigrate?

 

The Influence of Globalisation on the Christian Spiritual Formation in Churches in Malaysia and Singapore

 

A Grandmother, a Mother and a Son

 

Abortion: Slaughter of the Innocents

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A CRITIQUE OF THE SCHOOLING-INSTRUCTIONAL PARADIGM AS THE FORMATIVE TOOL IN SPIRITUAL FORMATION IN CHRISTIAN FAITH COMMUNITIES IN MALAYSIA

 

A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF EDUCATION IN CHURCHES IN MALAYSIA

The Jesus Prayer

Book Notes on The Kingdom Life

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Practice Resurrection: God’s Calling; Our Living

 

The Role of Worship in Christian Spiritual Formation

 

Reframing Christian Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Formation and Discipleship

A Transfiguration of Love

Paul Long's Keep in Step

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Sitting on the Seats of Mockers

Don't Forget How to Dance

What I Learned in 2009

The Blessings of Spiritual Friends

Surfing the Tsunami Wave of Change

Spiritual Formation for Shalom

The Child with Fits

Gifts of Healings

Cough in Children

On My Pastor's Retirement

Courage Under Fire

Essential Ingredients for Spiritual Growth

Living in the Fullness of Christ

Spiritual Discernment and Decision Making

Deepening Christian Spirituality

Reflections on A Call to Spiritual Formation

Prayer of the Father of the Bride

'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery'

Knowing God, Knowing Self

Movie Reviews

How to be the Greatest Mum in the World

Star Trek the Reboot

Notes on Confucianism

 

A Philosophy of Action

Teaching of Values in Higher Education

Notes on Taoism and Chinese Folk Religions

 

Depression and the Christian Life

Boy's Brigade Enrolment Service 2009


 

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