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Christmas and the Classic Church - Pt.2

It’s the day after Christmas. We have a retreat coming so this should be a quick one.Our family went to the Vietnamese service at Midway City on Dec. 24 (due to space constraint, our English Ministry doesn’t have any sp…
Christmas and the Classic Church - Pt.1

It is Christmas morning. I am up early today in order to blog something which has been brewing in my mind for the last few days. No, it is not about the MST’s breakthrough analysis about Disciplemaking (that will have …
Personality: Disorder

This quick post has two items.First a great conversation I had with Jenney on Facebook:Jenney Ho wrote at 10:41amHi husband, I love you. I love you a lot especially during this cold season. BTW, what will I get for Chris…
Losing Confidence

Sometimes the smallest stuff can ruin the big perception. According to our records, in the course of 2 weeks the Distance Education servers crashed 3 times. The first was because our client actually did it. The inst…
VoIP Deployment and the Gospel

This morning we announced the plan to convert the phone system at work to VoIP.I still remmember an Ungermann-Bass's excellent presentation more than a decade ago on the Holy Grail of networking back then: one jack which…
On Leaderless Organization

At work today I met with a team from AT&T to start moving all our phones over to a new VoIP phones (a phone system which run on the computer network instead of the old telephone voice network). The condition of our …
"God never saved any man for being a preacher"

I just finished reading Calvin Miller's book "O shepherd, where art thou?" He wrote a novel arguing for the role of pastoral care in the modern megachurch thinking. He quoted a 17th century warning below... “Many a tai…
Is power really that matter?

I got a day off today just before Thanksgiving. At 5:30am one of the techs call me up from bed because a transformer blew out at Fullerton College and rendered the whole campus without any power. I dispatched our engin…
Leaders lead in repentance

All actions we do will lead to consequences. Stupid actions will lead to bad consequences. And since none of us is perfect enough, we will eventually face up to the bad consequences of our actions sooner or later. The…
Foundation for engaging the postmodern society with the gospel

This is a very serious post. You will need 90 minutes to fully digest this. But it will be needed to build a proper foundation for evangelism and outreach.There are many recent interesting views on evangelism and outreac…