I have now been a Christian for 14 years, since the year I left high school and completed my Higher School Certificate (HSC). Since then I’ve been schooled in the Bible and devoted myself to understanding it, but until about 6-9 months ago I never really understood the power of prayer. How long it has [...]
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Quiet Time Toolkit
Posted in Devotions, Encouragement, Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Meditation on God, Prayer, Reflections, Revelations, Spurgeon on 21 April, 2012 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
Torah: Guide and Stipulation
Posted in Meditation on God, Old Testament on 28 March, 2012 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
When I first became a Christian back in 1998, as I finished my last year at school, I threw myself into the Old Testament (the First Covenant) almost as much as I threw myself into the New (Second Covenant). I figured that because the Bible was roughly 2/3 OT and 1/3 NT that getting into [...]
Spurgeon: March 14 (Evening)
Posted in Meditation on God, Reflections on 15 March, 2012 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
This devotional reading from Charles Spurgeon’s book ‘Morning and Evening’ struck me last night like a kick to the face… It implores readers to never be coy about “never sinning again”. I really needed to hear this. Here it is for the edification of others, that you too may not fall into the same pit. [...]
Who ARE God’s leaders? A Tale of Three Kings.
Posted in Encouragement, Inspiriation, Ministry, Revelations, Suffering, Temptation on 3 February, 2012 (Friday) | Leave a Comment »
Last week I ordered from The Book Depository a book named “A Tale of Three Kings: A study in brokenness” by American pastor Gene Edwards. My wife had a Korean-translated copy of it and I took the next step of getting an Engish copy of it for myself. In essence, it is a short 98-page story [...]
God’s shining face
Posted in Reflections on 24 December, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
A couple of days ago, my family and I stayed at a house in 평택 (about an hour out of Seoul), where we met a lovely elderly man. He encouraged us to both pray 민수기 (Numbers) 6:24-26 over our children on a daily basis: 24 Yahweh bless and keep you; 25 Yahweh make his face shine on [...]
Thanks to my Evangelical Heritage
Posted in Anger, Grief, Healing and Restoration, Quotes, Reflections, Revelations, Where I'm 'At' on 9 September, 2011 (Friday) | Leave a Comment »
When I first became a Christian way back in April of 1998, it was through Sydney evangelical preaching and teaching. The people in my life whom God used to bring me to Jesus were/are all of the Sydney Anglican flock. Those who looked after me in church were Sydney Anglican evangelicals. I have been challenged [...]
Where my preaching is positioned: Affective
Posted in Homelitics, Inspiriation, My Ministry (God's ministry through me), Preaching (Homiletics), Reflections on 17 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Affective Over Cognitive? Undoubtedly my views on Affective preaching will be controversial and many will disagree with me because they are very much into Cognitive preaching, but my reasons for prefering Affective are not without merit. Cognitive preaching is effectively an attempt to reach heads over hearts, while Affective preaching is preaching from the heart [...]
Where my preaching is positioned: Inductive
Posted in Homelitics, Inspiriation, My Ministry (God's ministry through me), Preaching (Homiletics), Reflections on 15 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
For my Homiletics class at Wesley, I have been reading my compulsory text, “Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures”, by Kenton C. Anderson. Having gone through chapter 3, which explores the dynamics of Deductive Preaching vs. Inductive Preaching, I have tonight been reading chapter 4, which delves into the two [...]
Lens of interpretation – Matthew 15:24
Posted in Hermeneutics, Jewish/Israeli/Hebrew, Meditation on God, Preaching (Homiletics), Sexuality, Theology Study, USSA on 13 August, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
As I’m going through the topic of theology in the Bible, it’s becoming clear to me that there are many positions which people take in approaching the Bible. For me, I was convicted a long time ago that the best, and really the only ultimate way, to interpret Scripture, especially the New Testament, is to [...]
Lectio Divina- Bible reading method
Posted in Meditation on God, Reflections on 3 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | 2 Comments »
Today, as I read my set text on expository preaching, I learned of a way to meditate on Scripture named Lectio Divina; readers of this blog may know from the Latin name that it is a Catholic means of reading and meditating on Scripture to get to its meaning for those reading it. According to one site, The [...]
