Lyndon Unger: A No Holds Barred Review of Noah : The Movie 2014
Today Noah, the movie, is premiered in Paraguayan cinemas. Very appropriately, Mennonite Brethren pastor Lyndon Unger posted a detailed review article (warning:...
Category: faith
Something to think about.
THE EMPEROR CÆSAR FLAVIUS JUSTINIANUS PIOUS, FORTUNATE, RENOWNED, CONQUERER AND TRIUMPHER, EVER AUGUSTUS, TO TRIBONIANUS HIS QUÆSTOR: GREETINGS. Governing wit...
The Day I Was Laid Off
Off I went, an unemployed man, on Workers’ Day Eve. And I was thankful for it. April 30th, 2011 seemed to be just another day at the office, compounded wi...
Merry Christmas!
This year is coming to an end. It has been hectic as usual, unusually challenging, but very enriching. Recollections and thoughts are set for another post. Now,...
Merry Christmas
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 ESV) I w...
OfB.biz: When Jerks Abuse an Organization
You might remember that I called your attention to Tim’s insightful piece, “The Hidden Danger of Peacemakers“. In response to that, I wrote tw...
2010: Perspectives for the New Year
As a flip-side piece to my 2009 evaluation post, I would like to set some things that I should take into account regarding the year 2010: In the personal side, ...
OfB: The Hidden Danger of Peacemakers
Tim recently wrote a great piece at Open for Business. He tells about the hidden danger posed by people trying to transform church discipline into just another ...
2009: The Year in Retrospect
Oh my. 2009 was such a year! It was a year full of news good and not so good, and it came and went in style, but all was so hectic! 😉 But I digress. The year 20...
Merry Christmas!
for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people...
Law School
Some of you may have seen scattered references to law school in my previous posts and therefore wondered about it. The gist of the story is that I am, in fact, ...
Happy Easter!
We are about to finish an exhausting Holy Week. For those of you who live up North, Holy Week in Paraguay is almost entirely a holiday week, thus providing a mu...
The Last Day of My Current Job
As I told you before, Rev. S. (my boss) told me that my current job would run through December 31. Well, today my boss told me that he already needed the office...
Today’s Collects from the Daily Office
Given the sorry state of world affairs, these collects make great prayers: Most gracious God and Father, in whose will is our peace: turn our hearts and the hea...
Life goes on
After Dad’s passing, everything went to normal. All my daily chores, school, work, errands, reading, study, and so on, were exactly the same as usual̷...
Is Christian Perfectionism a Danger for the Church?
The other day Rev. S. confided me that one of our pastors was causing some stir within our church’s pastoral team. It is a problem that is bound to happen...
On Porn: A side note
First, a disgression. I know it’s been a long time since I posted something substantial here. This is because of my busy life, and in part… because ...
Thirty Eight Years
Thanks to the Lord’s grace and mercy, I turned 38 years old last Thursday. I didn’t want any celebrations; however, I had a nice noon dinner with th...
Law and Testimony
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, NASB) Once I read in an online foru...
Back to preaching
After a long hiatus, I was invited to preach at my church’s youth group at their weekly Saturday evening meeting. I preached on the “falls of the ju...
Today’s Collect
From today’s Daily Office: Lord God, King of the Universe, you show the bright glory of your reign in acts of mercy and enduring love: raise the spirits o...
A Distant Violin
I closed the gate of my office building, and started to walk to my mom’s place, where I would spend my lunch hour. The day was glorious: cloudless sky of ...
Looking ahead
This has been a very stressful month. I was lost in a maze of things to do, reports to draft and translate, church administrative sessions and several meetings....
From Today’s Daily Office
This prayer struck me as especially timely: Touch and heal all those whose lives are scarred by sin or disfigured by pain, that, raised from death to life in Ch...
Catching up some air
Word on last Sunday’s administrative session wasn’t good. There were several incidents among disgruntled brethren and the view was not particularly ...
Great, timely posts
I still don’t know the outcome of my church’s administrative session that was planned for today. I went to the 8:00am service and promptly left afte...
My Church, Again…
Things down here are hectic, which sadly it means business as usual. The unexpected passing of Rev. M., our late senior pastor, still has some fallout for us. T...
Man, This Is Just Too Much
Most of you know what I think of current worship practices in church. My disagreements on that area are mostly philosophical, aesthetic and methodological. Howe...
A Challenging Week, Upgrades…
This has been a challenging week. Things are not going as well as I would have wished in the financial front; but we are holding on. But the most difficult prob...