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Dark Knight's postmodern hero, Jesus is neither

Jenney and I watched the movie Dark Knight last night on IMAX.Deep movie. I may not agree with all the philosophical underpinning of the movie, but it portrays a very postmodern view of the world. However, there are …
Deja Vu

There’s deja vu between my workplace and Sport Fest in the last couple days. At Sport Fest, I was torn between substitute a certain player or not. The dynamic of the game will get better or worse depends on that call. At…
Truth got Him killed

"In a bind you can say to yourselves, 'No, this is not the ultimate in my life - Jesus is my everything!' and got through some temptations. But in the long run, it has to be your own experience of the beauty and holines…
Loving God and Hell

Today I got a question from a Christian about explaining to her friend of "How could a loving God sending good people to hell just because they didn't believe Him". Here's what I wrote back...You are in luck because the…
BreakingFree 6.4/13 - The human heart is an idol factory

"For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise" (Gal. 3:18) Last night my small group got together for a brief study on our passage this week. From verse 18 here, the principle was cl…
BreakingFree 6.3/13 - we always live for something

Yesterday I gave an example of how we need to dig deeper beneath our sinful behaviors to uncover the idol of our heart (something that we really live for, despite the theoretical "living for God" which we say but we don'…
BreakingFree 5.4/13 - Believing vs. Trying

Yesterday we ended with this question: If we should not rely on our own will power to obey what the Bible teaches, how are we going to deal with the daily sins we have? Let's say you have a recurring problem with anger …
Good to be home...

I am back home tonight after taking my speaker friend to the pastors' conference. DJ gave me a mention on his blog. But most importantly, he published his talk for public consumption: http://blog.l2foundation.org/2008/0…
BreakingFree 2.5/13: I love you because... I love you - Pt.2

I will be very short today and gave you an extended explanation I learned through the Galatians materials:Question: How realizing that the Gospel (good news about the unconditional love God had for us, that "God loves me…
BreakingFree 1.5/13: All our problems are failures to apply the Gospel

We started the week with just the background of the letter to the Galatians. The second day we observed how harsh Paul was in the opening of the letter when it comes to the issue of grace. The third day we wondered about…