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Hacker News Poll — what is your religion? I actually found the religion-related threads on HN usually quite good comparing to sites like Whirlpool, where people would ridicule first before any discussion. Still, atheism/agnosticism are still the majority in the tech world/startup scene.

今天凌晨趕工做出來今年 FOCUS Church Camp 的廣告片，然後早上就在教會的時候用了。 大家趕快找 Jason 報名吧！

So yesterday afternoon I tweeted: Did a day of ‘cold turkey’ on the main walkway of UNSW. Really exhausted now but had some good conversations. Got a reply from Big Al a few minutes later: @scottyang cold turkey.. ? So… What exactly does cold turkey mean, especially in my context? I cannot remember where the [...]

Luke 13:1-5 from English Standard Bible: 1 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 [...]

From SMH: Messages of faith, focus and failure, At St Andrew’s Cathedral the Anglican Archbishop, Peter Jensen, told the assembled crowd they were a bunch of failures: “But that’s the message of Christmas – the arrival of Jesus to save us from those failures.” In a very personal sermon, Dr Jensen spoke of his near [...]

At the City Bible Forum today, Ray Galea gave a talk from the kingly Psalm, Psalm 2, where the enemies of God plotted opposition against God’s annointed king. Ray quoted a song from U2, When Love Comes to Town. I was there when they crucified my LordI held the scabbard when the soldier drew his [...]

I was watching Bourne Identity on DVD with Vivian this evening, and in the bonus feature section they interviewed someone who’s actually a veteran at CIA. In the interview he said that the marble walls of the lobby of the CIA Headquarters are actually inscribed with a passage from the Bible! It says And ye [...]

A nice illustration that Ian Powell used today at the City Bible Forum. It is taken from the slogan of Matt Damon’s latest block buster, The Bourne Ultimatum — “Remember Everything, Forgive Nothing“. Ian made a comparison with God. Unlike Jason Bourne, through the propitiation of Jesus Christ on the cross, God Remembers Nothing but [...]

Saturday morning. Almost lunch time. Doing some vacuum cleaning. Two people knocked on the door — a Caucasian guy and an Asian lady. They had Watch Tower on their hands. Oh my. As I was busy changing Elsie‘s nappy, Vivian went and opened the door, told them that we are Protestant Christians, we are sure [...]

ESV Daily Verse is now on Twitter — what a great use of hype of the year which I still have not figured out what is good for! If you add “esvdaily” as someone you want to “follow”, you’ll get daily verses on your Twitter update at around the same time everyday! Except Twitter can [...]

The content of this post actually came up around 2 weeks ago at the dining table with Vivian… First we have the Dan Brown‘s Da Vinci Code, where Jesus married to Mary Magdalene the “Holy Grail”, had kids before he was crucified on the cross, and Jesus’ descendants moved to France to form their own [...]

感謝環球聖經公會的Jack弟兄從新加坡寄給了我一份他們出版的『眾裡尋它－如何選擇聖經中譯本』 。 I requested that booklet in late December, and it finally appeared in our mailbox last week, although I later found the online version on their website as well. The title of the booklet suggests that it is about how to choose the right Chinese Bible translation, although the content is more about how [...]

ESV Blog responded their experience of getting dugg in the weekend. Quite an insightful post on Christian blogs, as well as blogs written by Christians. Even if you don’t consider your blog a ministry, it serves as one. And, as we found out, you never know when one of your posts will become popular or [...]

Went to City Bible Forum yesterday, and Malcolm Williams from FEVA gave a talk with an excellent title: “Why Materialism Is One of The Best Things about Christmas”. I love the title because it gets in your face and is controversial — Christians have been preaching for ages that Christmas is not about shopping, exchanging [...]

I was listening to net@nite episode 2 with Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte on my way to work last week. They were discussing a new service, MyFinalParty.com, a website that helps you to plan “not only your funeral but also everything else”. Then a website called MyDeadSpace.com, a tribute site for all those who have [...]