Category Archives: Theologization

Did Calvin celebrated Christmas?

This came up as a question in the Sunday school. Interestingly, after searching online, I came across this: Martin Luther: Pro-Christmas Zwingli: Anti-Christmas Clavin: Neither for nor against According to the article, it's all about the difference between normative vs. … Continue reading

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Will We Remember Our Sins in Heaven?

This idea that we will forget our sins in heaven came up during the Sunday school today and I wasn't sure if this was something the American fundamentalist church held in common so I kept quiet so that I could … Continue reading

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Why English Bibles say Jesus hung on a tree? Someone at church brought up this question and I looked it up. It has to do with the English word "tree". The Etymology of tree means wood, or wooden structure, in … Continue reading

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Biblical Terminology: Interesting Terms and Phrases

I'll try to keep an alphabetical order of these, based on phonetics. Some of these terms are well known by either the English speakers or Chinese speakers but new to me. Abomination of Desolation (那行毁坏可憎的) (it seems that American Christians … Continue reading

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Bible Study: The Gospel of John

I tried to log notes back in the CCCNY Bible study days. But I'll start fresh now. With Grace PCA and Pak Tong's notes. I came across a very good Chinese summary of Tong's video series. Unfortunately, it only went … Continue reading

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Thoughts

So far I am pretty satisfied with finding Grace Community Church in Bridgewater. The pastor is young, younger, but thus far, shows more zeal for the community, for the church for any older pastors I've encountered in America. And more … Continue reading

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One thing about Stephen Tong is that he is able to JUSTLY discern and attack on the answers to his questions. Something many, including his own son, is not capable of. Now I have to delve into Revelation, James (with … Continue reading

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On Last week's Thursday Bible Study, on discussion of difficult passage, the pastor brought up Matthew 7's "Judge not". His point was, in what I believe to be an error, that here Jesus is distinguishing God's JUDGMENT and our "discernment". … Continue reading

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E-Sword: Best Version

So far it is around 10.2.1. Don't even try to upgrade it as Chinese characters will fail in parallel view and the author Rick Meyers, though as generous as he is talented, didn't seem that interested to deal with the … Continue reading

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Another new quote I have, after much reflection of churches I've been, particularly the Chinese ones:The love of showing we are caring, love God's words/works, is not the same as loving to care, and love God's words/works. Came across one … Continue reading

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