A really moving question: Do I know what it means to be forgiven?

Tags: Christianity, Note to Self

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
• Pensées by Blasise Pascal.

Tags: Christianity, N, Note to Self

⁷ “Two things I ask of you, LORD;
do not refuse me before I die:
⁸ Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
⁹ Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.

Tags: Christianity, scripture

During the term Winter ’10, our small group struggled through the posed question. (Specifically, we were reading through this book.) I skipped a lot of our meetings and so I never actually put a nice coherent summary of what I learnt throughout the sessions.

Today, I realized two points closely related to the aforementioned question:

• To question W.W.J.D in our situation is not fair for ourself, since we really don’t have the capacity to act as Jesus in every step. A more appropriate and easier-to-answer question (in my opinion at least) is “What would Jesus would like me to do in this situation?” It begs a more practical answer and looking at Christian values as a reference point would carry us to a great extent.
• I think our job should also lie in a field where we can serve others and do God’s work.

I would leave this post at these two points. More thoughts, coherency, and connection between these seemingly disparate ideas should follow.

Tags: Christianity

So in the course of time Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I asked the LORD for him.”

What a beautiful verse. “Because I asked the LORD for him”.

Tags: Christianity, Samuel, scripture

Last week, Prof. John Dabiri talked in small group. One thing he said that really catches my attention (somewhat paraphrased, since I don’t remember it exactly): new scientific theory did not exist 50 years ago and will not exist 50 years from now. But the bible has been here for at least 2000 years.

Tags: Christianity