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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 [...]