Category Archives: Theologization

The So called Campus Ministries

Every so often, churches, particularly Chinese churches, love to brag about how they labor for the hardest ministries of all: The campus ministries. I would like to respond to them by asking: This tough ministry of students, are they college … Continue reading

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What about those who have not heard of the Gospel?

A common question, but the answers I've heard are mostly not to the point, useless. Such as at the last Friday's CCCNY Bible study. The pastor's reply was: We are not qualified to judge, it is God's decision, leave it … Continue reading

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Phil Robertson of the Duck Dynasty

When I first heard the news about how A&E put Duck Dynasty's reality show on hiatus due to his anti-gay remark on GQ magazine, I thought it is just like many other news that discriminate Christians for calling homosexuality a … Continue reading

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Ethnic Diversity in New York City

This calls for an interesting strategy for mission work in this city. This far, Redeemer's City to City is the only one that's close to such work. With Chinese immigrants (350k) so close to the majority Dominicans (380k), Mission target … Continue reading

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Jefferson Bethke

A while back, there was a youtube video that went viral. It is Jeff Bethke's "I hate religion, but love Jesus". Kevin DeYoung attempted a seminary examination on Bethke's poem. Subsequently, he thought Bethke listened to him. Did Bethke do … Continue reading

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Sunday Service

Yesterday's Advent celebration at Redeemer was excellent. Professional choir singing Christmas choruses with great clarity and dynamics. With only 21 singers, they could blast like a 200 chorister choir. After lesson readings, some by children, Dr. Tim Keller gave the … Continue reading

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Why He left Malaysia

Not long ago, there was a viral article from Malaysia by someone trying to justify why he had to leave Malaysia for good. It is about the corruption and injustice treatment against certain foreign spouse of a Malaysian. The responses, … Continue reading

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Church College

With the problem of education in the West, Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi suggested the concept of a church college or church school, where education is provided in the church instead of just the schools. Dr. Stephen Chan had long longed for … Continue reading

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Eric Metaxas' top 5 books for Nonbelievers

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/december/eric-metaxas-my-top-5-books-for-nonbelievers.html

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This Sunday and Its Week

Like last week, Nadia and I went to the East side Service of Redeemer at 10:30am. Voices of Redeemer was performing. I couldn't hear much of the Voices during public singing because either the congregation was singing or that the … Continue reading

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