Around today, I realized that the temperature has dropped to 32F and below, so I put on the foam faucet covers for both outdoor faucets this morning.1
Looking back I realized that I have two e-scooters that were malfunctioning and a non-e-scooter which I never really used much. I plan to either fix this or modify them into one very portable and possibly light weight e-scooter that I can hide on the train, since they do not permit motorized contraptions.
I shall also look into propagating some aloe plants that have overgrown in the bedroom.
Recollecting back on sermons by Stephen Tong, I must note this which I have observed for quite some times: Listening to Tong is not only because of its originality, but the focus is truly for God's kingdom and trying to teach the congregants about it with love. Contrasting with the others, those in America, Tim Keller is the first and the only one I could come up with for originality. His 16 hour preparation time definitely paid off. But surely it's not just the amount of time one puts into preparing a sermon, but the care and the walk with God that would affect how a sermon is prepared. Most other American preachers I've seen have this basic standard, other than quoting verses and chanting "trust God", "obey Him", "love Him" repeatedly, that is to preach a sermon with the same theme over and over again...what gives? Well, it's as if if a pastor could rephrase a sermon theme with different words, that's good already. And if he could use words that are colorful, that's better, and if the audience could figure out the simple truth through a complexity of wordings and terminologies of the layman standard, that's great! There is no new things, these preachers make the living word of God dead and boring. No life in the message, because they live not according to the living word. They do not go for the truth, but for the dramatic and the legalistic emphasis, as if to scare audience into submission. They fail at trusting God, they fail at giving their lives truly, they fail because they have learned to pretend not to fail very comfortably.