In my last pastoral letter, we explored briefly “The Power within Us” (Eph 3:20). What is the nature of this power? According to Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, this power is not the outward power of controlling nature or raising the dead, but the inward power of love, and of sacrificial love in …
Marian Diamond is considered one of the founders of modern neuroscience. She and her research team studied the brains of mice as early as the 1960s. They kept a group of mice in the same cage and gave them some toys. Then they isolated another group of mice separately. Later, they found that the cerebral …
At the outset of the COVID pandemic, we thought it was a safe practice to self-isolate for 14 days after we had returned from our overseas trip to China. That quarantine period gave us some extra family time and together we watched a couple of movies we did not expect to: Contagion (2011) and Train …
I once knew a Christian sister who was in a rush to drive to a destination. Her car broke down. She knew nothing about how to fix her car. However, she remembered the miraculous experience of praying for others, so she laid her hands on the car and prayed for it. God did not answer …
While I was on leave in Hong Kong earlier in the year, I had a reunion with many of my high school friends whom I have known for many years. While reminiscing on the past, I felt excited but also a little melancholic because at my life stage, it’s much harder to find new heart-to-heart …
The statistics are staggering. The average person spends nearly 11 hours a day looking at a screen, and checks their phone 150 times a day. In this era of technological wave, how do parents nurture their children? The Bible tells us to teach and nurture our children to walk in the ways of the Lord …
All Christians seek guidance from God so that they can walk on the right path in the journey of life, honor God and edify others; to be guided by God, we must listen to His voice. However, only very few people will hear the voice of God. What can most believers do before they can …
As we enter a new year, we often like to make some changes, or to set new goals for ourselves. Some common New Year resolutions include: more exercise, more saving or less spending, quitting smoking or drinking, more time with family, developing a new hobby, etc. Have you set any new year resolutions for yourself? I had set …
During the pandemic, a lot of people are obliged to stay home for work and schooling. The whole family often stayed together. Their enforced togetherness might have created quite a lot of frictions and arguments. Although the pandemic has now eased, a good and peaceful relationship with one another is nevertheless a difficult topic which needs improvement. During this post-pandemic period, how are we going to deal with this matter? There were sayings …
We all grieve. Yet we often underestimate its impact upon us and those around us. A recent US study, done before this pandemic, found that 57% of Americans are grieving the loss of someone over the last three years. That means, of the two people you meet, one could be grieving. And according to a research by the Australian National University in 2019, the trauma …
