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To my Combinationalist friends
To my Combinationalist friends I also believe that two together is better than one If we look after each other’s back We can do better job than doing alone However, two leaking buckets cannot hold water anyway Rationalism, Experientialism, Evidentialism, Pragmatism, all are leaking What we need is one good bucket Not ten leaking ones…
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To my Pragmatist friends
To my Pragmatist friends I value your effort to get results Surely God brings success to the faithful We believe that truth always shines through the mud of the world However, in our real world Do we always experience that righteous get the bigger pie? Don’t sometimes bad guys get what they want? Isn’t truth…
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To my Rationalistic friends
To my Rationalistic friends You have a certain way to know God Because you started with a certain thing Cogito ergo sum Is that what you say? Or the argument that an idea necessarily has the reality! However, it is a circular logic. If you start with your own rule You can be as consistent…
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To my Evidentialist friends
To my Evidentialist friends I love your passion for objective evidences Without facts, we cannot start any interpretation. Our Christian faith is based on the facts Concerning the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. We also have some evidences in the nature All the orders and designs in nature clearly shows that there…
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To my Experientialist friends
To my Experientialist friends You say that all the religion come from the experience of the Holy That is true Without such experience, we do not have religion. Do you know what? However, we need words and reasons to explain that experience. Some call the divine The One, some calls the Unknowable Some talk about…
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To my Fideistic friends
To my Fideistic friends Yes, we cannot explained away our faith Nor we can logically explain the way we live out our faith God is our Father, our Shepherd, and our Lord We have this wonderful relationship with God We enjoy every moment with The One We feel loved and saved It is our life…
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To my deist friends
To my deist friends I am glad that you accept the Creator Our Creator made this perfect world and said, “It is good!” But do you know that the Creator made us humans and not machines? God gave us “free will” and we misused it We add stains to this perfect world We fell from…
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To my agnostic friend
To my agnostic friend If you say you do not know anything about God You are actually saying that you know something about God How do you know that the thing that you do not know about God Is actually not about God? You have some idea about God already And that is why you…
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Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 19:16-30
Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 19:16-30 Here was a rich young man: good looking, upright, and a model citizen. He was a successful person in his community. He was not, however, a man of this world. He was not that type of person who used all kinds of strategies and tactics to win his popularity…
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How to make a desired change?
How to make a desired change? Recently I have encountered an article, “Managing complex Change” by Dr. Mary Lippitt, the founder and president of Enterprise Management, Ltd. She lays out a principle for a meaningful change to happen. I want to first review it and then to apply it to my ministry setting. First, she…
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