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"No One Die for a Model"

I have been blogging lately about the turmoil at our church and the affects it has on our English Ministry. In the "Throw the Rock" parable I got from Elizabeth Eliot, I am confronted with the question if the Parallel Mo…
Hunkering Down

Last Sunday I attended the Grand Opening of a new “church-splant” (my term for a church-split+plant) and raised a lot of eyebrows. Some people think that I am leaving Midway, and so here is the official decision for the…
Submission and Insubordination

“For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.” -1 Sam 15:23, NASBReaders of this blog will recall that I placed “having permission” very high on my list when someone interv…
Endurance requires Vision, not Acknowledgement

Two nights ago at VBS, a person told me that our staff needs to be acknowledged more so that they could continue to serve. I told him that what we need is vision, and not acknowledgment. For only vision could help us e…
28 Days Gaze on Grace

I am calling my church to join me and our Leadership team in their personal Bible Reading and journaling using http://tinyurl.com/28daysGazeOnGrace to learn from God's Word and to heal our hearts. You are invited to jo…
Re: Church shut down this weekend

Greetings,Next week our church will shut down so that all of us will join other Vietnamese Christians at the annual conference of the Vietnamese District of the Christians & Missionary Alliance. Perhaps you are temp…
Interviewed on Leadership

I was interviewed by one of the Midway seminarians on Leadership; here are my responses...1. How did you rise to the leadership position at Midway City Church?It all started on an ordinary Sunday in 1989. That morning th…
In the dark nights of God's people: keep the faith

I am in the middle of the Old Testament class with the fame Tremper Longman III. We are covering the historcal books (from Joshua to Malachi, subtracting the Poetic books in the middle).It made me think a lot about our …
"Progress in slow mo"

I haven’t updated for a month. So here are some stuff that’s going on with my life lately:1. We will become homeless soon. We put our house on the market even before the financial crisis. We got 3 offers over the last …
My Most Important Learning in 2008: (re)defining Discipleship

This will be the most important breakthrough I learned from Muc Su Thach (MST) in this year. For a decade now, we have been wrestled with defining Discipleship. Most church leaders are committed to the Great Commission…