The reflecting theologian

For some reason, this is the latest song that got stuck in my head. I really like the lyrics: 耶穌　我要愛慕你　 イエス　あいします　 我要愛慕你　傾倒我的生命 あいします こころそそぎ 你是我唯一所求　讓我心單單渴慕你　 ただあなただけ したいもとめます 　 我心滿溢　我心滿溢　 あふれる　あふれる 　 對你的愛和思念無止盡 あなたをしたうおもい 讓我走向 你的身旁 貼近你　 みそばに　ひきよせて 主啊 我渴慕尋求你 主よ したいもとめます

I recently stumbled upon this blog post: http://diaryofasuperchamp.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/5-reasons-why-many-christian-girls-remain-single/ . In this article, it lists five reasons why many Christian girls remain single. And I summarise the reasons: The girls want Jesus, not a disciple of Jesus. The girls want to be a princess, but refused to let the men be princes. The girls play 'hard to get'. The girls ask too much out of their potential spouses. The girls refused to become the right person whom their right persons are looking for. In this post, I would like to give some of my thoughts about these points, but I will like to warn my female readers here that I am going to be extremely ruthless in my commentary. So if you think you are a feminist or believe in what the feminist world says about you, then I propose that you click the 'x' on your browser tab and you will be better off reading some articles from 'Her World' magazine. Otherwise, I would like to re...

http://mothership.sg/2014/03/12-things-not-to-say-to-a-twenty-something-who-just-broke-up/ I chanced upon this article earlier on. I am no expert in the area of breaking up (and by grace, I pray that I nor the people around me will never experience that agony). But reading this article, it seems to me that the article itself tells of the assumption that we have in this world with regard to relationship. The title alone seems to suggest that it is normal for a 20-something to break up. To each his own viewpoint, but I find it disturbing that we are coming out with a list of what not to say to people when they break up. It first and foremost betrays the emotions that a person has to go through in his break-up and thus begs the questions why even bother to go through such pain in the first place. In fact, is it even necessary to go through such pain and emotional trauma? That, may I suggest, is precisely the reason why Joshua Harris (a much maligned Christian author) wrote "I kis...

In case you guys wonder where all the posts have gone to, I have been busy with work and preparing for my trip back in the land where Facebook is prohibited. This is my second trip back here ministering to the churches over here and half of the previous team came along. Below is a photo of the team eating bbq over there. We took a selfie together: I shall not belabor my readers with a day to day account of the trip but i shall share a few reflection points over here. Firstly, this is the first time I preached in a church service, and in fact, I preached a total of 5 times in 3 different churches in 4 service settings and led an entire prayer meeting and 2 LG settings. In terms of ministry wise, this is a thanksgiving point to God, that He helped me and led me to prepare the message that the people at the churches here need to hear. Honestly, nearing the departure, I was still in the midst of preparing the messages and I was struggling over preaching a particular message on family...

Never expected myself to become the poster boy of AGBC but it happened. Anyway, doing free publicity for them here. Indeed this is a place where we deepen our spirituality as we learn.  

I recently saw this video and found that it entirely encapsulates the peril of working too much. Not only losing hobbies and personal life, we also risk losing our families and friends and our sense of self-identity. But this is so prevalent in Singapore today. People work long hours but ended up with no time for any other thing in life. As one of my previous supervisors once said, "where got work-life balance? Work is life mah..." And that is pretty sad, if you ask me. That's why I choose to draw the line. Take note that I am not insinuating a dichotomy between work and life. Neither am I advocating dualism - that work is bad and any other things outside of work is good. But I am drawing a boundary between my paid work and my other responsibilities and commitments outside of work. This is a choice that people have to make and I made the choice to draw the line. This means for me that I try as far as possible to leave my work in the office once I step out of it and I...

Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting study on the state of dating in America in 2014. This study ( http://www.stateofdatingreport.com/ ) is jointly conducted by Christianmingle.com and Jdate.com. I will leave readers to figure out what these websites do. This is essentially a survey conducted on 2647 respondents from America on their views on dating. Certain interesting findings as below: 1. Age demographics It is intriguing to note that 61% of the respondents are above 35 years old. The proportion was weighted down to 59% in the final report. I am just thinking if this reflects a trend of people in urban setting delaying their marriages or unable to find a life partner. It may very well be the case that among the pool of single people (being defined in the study as people who are currently unmarried, currently dating or planning to date in the near future or in an exclusive relationship with a partner for less than two years), this is the group of people who find it the most di...