Bang, bang!

Cher - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Bang bang you shot me down
Bang bang I hit the ground
Bang bang that awful sound
Bang bang my baby shot me down
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
I wore black you wore white
You would always win the fight
Bang bang [...]

Friday, August 31 - An Ongoing Process

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
Brothers, we urge you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus to make more and more progress in the kind of life that you are meant to live: the life that God wants, as you learnt from us, and as you are already living it. You have [...]

Torture porn?

A good number of movie critics labelled the gory movie Hostel 2 as torture porn, which the director Eli Roth insistently denied. I agree with the Roth. Hostel 2 may be obscene, graphic, outrageously, in bad taste, gory, violent, but it’s not torture porn.
For one thing, porn is designed to [...]

Do you believe in the resurrection of the dead?

Recently a friend passed me a book to read. It’s called “A Travel Guide To Heaven” by Anthony Destefano. This is the same friend who first passed to me “Theology of the Body for Beginners”, “Good News About Sex & Marriage” and “NOISE”.
If it is a book that is good [...]

Tuesday, August 28 - Speaking The Truth

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
You know yourselves, my brothers, that our visit to you has not proved ineffectual.
We had, as you know, been given rough treatment and been grossly insulted at Philippi, and it was our God who gave us the courage to proclaim his Good news to you in the [...]

Monday, August 27 - Living the Truth

1 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 8-10
From Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church in Thessalonika which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; wishing you grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We always mention you in our prayers and thank God for you [...]

Barrier method

I saw an interesting ad today.

It’s an ad for what a friend said was the barrier method. It follows the woman’s natural body cycle and helps her to identify the days when she is fertile, may be fertile, and is infertile.
On days when she is infertile, the instrument gives a green light indicating when “no [...]

Twelve Steps for Christians

While writing my daily reflection for today, which focused on the Twelve Step programme pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous, I thought of an idea.
For the uninitiated, a Twelve-Step programme is a set of guiding principles for recovery from addictive, compulsive, or other behavioural problems. While Alcoholics Anonymous and other affiliated [...]

Sunday, August 26 - 12 Steps for Christians

Isaiah 66:18-21
The Lord says this: I am coming to gather the nations of every language. They shall come to witness my glory. I will give them a sign and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Moshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant islands [...]

Saturday, August 25 - What are you proclaiming?

Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11, 4:13-17
Naomi had a kinsman on her husband’s side, well-to-do and of Elimelech’s clan. His name was Boaz.
Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let e go into the fields and glean among the ears of corn in the footsteps on some man who will look on me with favour.” And [...]