The Introvert Person of the Holy Spirit
Even though Peter was the leader of the disciples of Jesus and the first pope of the Catholic Church, and wrote two letters of the NT, he still did not receive the same respect as Paul did. This may be because he was an uneducated fisherman, had hot temper, cutting an ear of a man who tried to arrest Jesus, and denied Jesus three times. Maybe, it was because Jesus once rebuked the devil out of Peter. Nevertheless, Peter had intimate relationship with Jesus, spending three years with him, eating with him, seeing the actual miracles with his own eyes, and being taught and loved by his Master.
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Image of God and Disability, Part II: the Privilege of God's Image
The first series of “Image of God and Disability” captured the universality of the divine likeness on all human beings regardless of the features that differentiate us. At the same time, the image functions as the common ground for us to stand together as equal beings. The Scriptures revealed that there was no mysterious significance on the words image and likeness by themselves; I mean the image of JD does not have any implication, not that I have no value.
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The Image of God and Disability, Part I: the Universality of God's Image
If you have been attending church for some time, you probably heard about the phrase, image and likeness of God. Well, it sounds theological and profound even. The writer of Genesis proclaims that God made Eve and Adam in his likeness, but does not that mean that God only made them in his image? How about us? Are we made in God’s likeness? But, what does that mean?
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Square Your Priority!
The world is filled with too many ideas and too much information, too many and too much to crowd and confuse our Christian values. Sometimes, what the Bible teaches us about Christian principles are so intricately related to the ideas of the world that it requires our careful attention and examination to untangle them.
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Commemorating My Friend, Brad, a Man of Compassion
The world praises the value of compassion, but not enough. Christian communities do believe in the value and encourage practicing compassion in our lives, but not often as God taught us through the Scriptures and not as He demonstrated it in action. Believers hear about those great achievements of pastors building mega-churches, of missionaries traveling around the world, of Christian writers publishing best-selling books, and of business leaders obtaining financial success, but the significance of compassion and the examples of individuals who practice compassion everyday became too shabby to be decorated on the first page of Christian magazines and even cliché to be preached and celebrated on Sunday church pulpits.
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The Origin of Suffering from Genesis Part III
As we have been exploring the origin of suffering from Genesis, On this post, I will further demonstrate how suffering was inflicted upon the world and how we need someone greater than ourselves to liberate us from what seems to be an endless cycle of curse and misery.
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