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As Amanda has blogged about John Dickson‘s talk at the City Bible Forum this week, on the servant hood of Christ, I think I should also share what I have learnt. The talk was around the incomprehensible act of Jesus in Philippians 2:5-11. While he was in the very nature of God in verse 6, [...]

I really enjoyed talks in City Bible Forum, and over the past 3 weeks, John Dickson has been giving talks from his book “A Spectator’s Guide to Jesus”. I’ve always managed to learn something from those talks, and yesterday from the talk about the divinity of Jesus (i.e. is Jesus God?), John used the parallel [...]

Two famous Aussie died last week, and one controversial Israelite died almost 2,000 years ago. I did not expect to put those three names under one sentence, but somehow Joshua managed to used them as illustrations to conclude his talk this morning on John 6. If I remembered correctly, the logic basically goes like this. [...]

Dan Warne of APC talked about Ubuntu Christian Edition in a sort-of mocking way. I actually took a look at this Ubuntu Christian Edition (UBE) thingy, and it is nothing more than one bash script (convert_me) that installs both GnomeSword + a few modules (an open-source Bible study software) and DansGuardian (a web content filter), [...]

We watched Fun with Dick and Jane (FDJ) on DVD on Tuesday. Haven’t had an opportunity to watch a DVD for a while, and I actually felt quite privileged to be able to just relax and joy the show. FDJ is indeed enjoyable — what do you expect when you have Jim Carrey acting mad! [...]

Via Neil A, Michael Jensen opened an discussion about Christian schools in Australia, where he asked “If Christian schools were really Christian, would anyone (other than Christians) want to send their kids there?” Good to think through before we send our kids to school in a few years. However, personal experience wise (yup, I’ve only [...]

Rick Warren addressing at the Hillsong Conference last night, reported on Sydney Morning Herald: “I don’t think it is a sin to be rich, it’s a sin to die rich,” he (Rick Warren) told the Herald earlier. “I want people to make as much money as they can as long as they give it away [...]

Here’s a Franch saying. “L’amour de dieu est folie”. — “Love of God is foolish”. Ian Powell used it in his Wednesday talk at the City Bible Forum on John 3:16, with strong emphasis on God SO loved that world that he gave his one and only son… While many have taken God’s love for [...]

Someone needs some help with building a church. Actually, not building the actual church, i.e. the people, but building the church building. GL from Shandong rang me up today asking whether I know anyone that knows about constructing church buildings. Apparently due to town planning, his church meeting place in China is scheduled to be [...]

In City Bible Forum today, Peter K was interviewing Ian P, the Rector of St. Barnabas Broadway, which was burnt down last week. Peter K: So, how is the investigation on the cause of the fire? Ian P: God?! Everyone <laughs> Ian then talked about the sermons he worked on, which is on Genesis 50 [...]

Since I got my eBible.com invite, I have been playing with this “Web 2.0″ version of on-line Bible service. It is packed with heavy Javascript, dynamic HTML and “rounded corners”. Very “buzzword compliant”, but at the same time also provide a very useful tool if you like your on-line Bible to be more interactive. This [...]

The story of Rich Young Ruler in the New Testament (Luke 18:18-34) has been taught many times in evangelistic meetings. I have previous blogged about what have I learnt from Warwick de Jersey on this passage, and Luke Wong also used the same passage in MBF evangelistic meeting last night, though I wasn’t present.

eBible.com, the Web 2.0 compliant Bible search engine, has entered into private beta. The screenshots look cool — much cleaner than the Bible Gateway, and packed with Web 2.0 features (whatever that means). Nice review here. Now I just need an invite.

Saw this on SMH this morning. I was shocked — they have finally got it right. Something that is historically true over the past 2,000 years. Here’s the link. :)

Topic for today’s CBF talk is The Death of God, and Warwick de Jersey gave this interesting quote. Sin is man substitutes himself for God. Salvation is God substitutes himself for men. How true! And yet it is so different from what most people today think about sin and salvation, where “sin” is people doing [...]