Be Proud of Church
I was browsing YouTube recently and noticed a clip of a sermon. What caught my attention was the rather conspicuous overload of titles: “XXX Reverend Doctor”. Since when a single Reverend became insufficient in a church setting?
For HK Caring Ministry
Lots of ministries, those which have long been getting less resources than preaching and teaching, for reasons still unknown and unjustified. These are summed up as Caring Ministry, which to me are really “pastoral” …
Hong Kong Christian Prophets
Trump, a US President faraway from HK as a target for a HK Christian theology professor in a Government funded University is way too rich whilst the HK political leaders who mucked up HK since 2019, and especially those who …
To Itinerary Preachers
This is a heart-felt message from an old timer. Years ago, a well respected retired Bible Professor told me he had one major regret: that his ministry was at the expense of him attending church without his wife for many years …
Lay Catholic Seeks Judicial Review of Bishop’s Ordination of a Deacon
This is a piece of recent news with a strange twist. That’s how HK churches usually pick their leaders, and in this case deacons, in the Catholic Church. This piece will explore how far secularism has eaten into the core of churches …
HK preachers: Preach this
HK preachers have overlooked preaching Psalm 1:3 to show how our leaders have been blessed. It’s therefore about time pastors and preachers stop shying away from telling Christians in HK the positives of our leaders. Time to tell the good story of HK …
Staying in Hong Kong
The ministry of Word and prayer is top priority to the pastors. If a pastor has withdrawn from pulpit ministry, what else to do to fulfil a pastoral vocation whilst still in Hong Kong? By the amazing grace of God, the laity will now take centre stage. They just do …
Caesar’s unto Caesar
Many will cite anecdotes and legal precedents that say church and religious activities and artefacts are no longer sponsored or tolerated on state campuses. Seemingly it points to the conquest of the church …
On Worship: on-line vs in-person
This will be at best controversial. Some might say confrontational. But it’s just contrarian. Even contributing. Internet has been around for ages. It was the target of derision, that it was the tool of the devil …
Concerning Sermon (5): The Message
If a sermon is billed as “from God,” it’s stressing on the speakers inspiration. If it is aimed to be “oriented towards audience,” its emphasis is on customer satisfaction. If it is derived from the text itself, it’s the message that’s …
Clean Anger
Christians who stay in HK but have been taught by local pastors firstly not to become “rioters”, then not to express or to harbour anger. Kings and authorities derive their authority from God … Therefore their anger must be clean …
Ordination
What a spectacle nowadays ordination has become! A horde of senior reverends all gather around the kneeling ordained pastor … probably have flower pinned to the lapel … hardly any indication of suffering and persecution …
Clean Reverends
For over two years these “35+” people were jailed. It took Lau Sai Leung to consistently pointed out its injustice and absurdity. No HK pastors said anything. They got used to being muted since 2019 …
Concerning Sermons (4): Preacher, it’s never about you!
God has entrusted you a message. It is for us. Why then do you get in the way? Why then see it as fans getting and applause collecting event? If it is about us the recipients, then speak our language …
Concerning Sermons (3): Converse Not Teach
Preacher, please don’t teach anymore. I long to converse. Can you do that in your sermon? I knew my failures. I knew my hurts. I knew my guilt and shame. You don’t seem to know. Do you know what I need …
Unclean Prayers
Dear Father in Heaven, God of history: On this evocative Sunday I pray to you. I confess I am a sinner, full of transgressions, some I knew and repented of, some I am still struggling with, and some I don’t even know …
Inflation
For the first time in this series’ history, a D.Min. is considered the same and therefore titled as a Doctor, just as a Ph.D. is entitled as a Doctor. Why the fuss? It is, because it is symptomatic, of a disease …
Concerning Sermons: Hearing with Heart (2): Mentolatry
Senior Pastors from mega churches of the Alliance and Evangelical Free denominations all committed a cardinal mistake. Cardinal, because it sets the wrong path for many sermons to follow …
Concerning Sermons (1) : Hearing with Heart
It’s a struggle, perennial one. Heart vs mind. Such a false dichotomy. Such an imposition of phantom categories. Still rearing it’s head though in fact, it was torn apart ages ago, by Paul and …
Clean Prayers
It is almost as obnoxious as the shrieks of pigs being slaughtered in hidden rooms in the Temple. Such prayers give God goose bumps! Prayers for Ukraine suddenly became in vogue. “Pray for Ukraine!” …