Archive | August, 2010

Mixing with muslims

Posted on 30 August 2010 by TK Tan

I have read around and basically the facts of the Teo Nie Ching Issue are these: She was asked by the mosque committee for some allocation to upgrade the mosque. She was then invited to the mosque to hand over the allocations. And then she was invited to say…

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Revelation 7:10

Posted on 30 August 2010 by Peter Young

“Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” (Revelation 7:10, NIV) This is the last of our seven memory verses and it assists us in the worship of our God and the Lamb.

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Words of wisdom for Malaysian university and college students

Posted on 30 August 2010 by Peter Young

The following is an extract from the officiating address by Y.B.M. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah at the 4th Annual Malaysian Student Leaders Summit (MSLS) in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 31st July 2010. Hence while you are at this conference, let me argue, that as an absolute minimum, we should call…

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What we mourn over is the benchmark of our maturity

Posted on 30 August 2010 by Rama Ramanathan

In his book Authentic Faith, the Christian teacher Gary Thomas says: “Mourning is a curious thing. A spiritually deadened person mourns over things that should bring celebration – and often celebrates things that should be mourned. In many ways, what we mourn over is a benchmark of our maturity…

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Fast and pray for Malaysia

Posted on 23 August 2010 by TK Tan

I conduct a weekly bible study with some students from my church and recently a couple of them told me that they have been participating in the NECF initiated 40-day Fast & Prayer. It was wonderful to hear of our youth involved in this, both the exercise of fasting and…

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Revelation 4:11

Posted on 23 August 2010 by Peter Young

11″You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” (Revelation 4:11, NIV) What wonderful words to memorise in order to worship our Creator God.

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Jesus of the Scars

Posted on 23 August 2010 by Peter Young

Once again, we have to be reminded of the ever increasing number of Christians who are being persecuted throughout the world. I give just three examples: 1. China Alimjan Yimit, a Uyghur Christian, has lost his appeal at the Xinjiang Court. He has been held in detention in the Xinjiang…

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Sharing the Lord’s Supper with Brethren from Myanmar

Posted on 23 August 2010 by Rama Ramanathan

I stopped the car at the end of a broken, unpaved, rutted road with tall grass growing in the middle. They unloaded the car. We had brought rice, eggs, baked beans, cooking oil, biscuits, milk powder for mothers and for infants. Also some clothes. All the stuff we brought was…

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MCCBCHST calls for a chorus of disapproval

Posted on 21 August 2010 by Administrator

In light of the latest, in an increasing line of provocative racist remarks, this time by a principal of a school in Johor, MCCBCHST calls upon the authorities to take prompt and appropriate action to demonstrate that such dastardly acts and words perpetrated by government servants regardless of their rank…

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Can justice be all things for all purposes?

Posted on 19 August 2010 by Andrew Khoo

On 27 July 2010 the Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tun Dato’ Seri Zaki Tun Azmi, received a standing ovation from participants of the 21st Conference of the Presidents of Law Associations in Asia (POLA) at the end of his talk entitled “The Malaysian Judiciary, Performance, Achievement & Future Planning”. In…

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In cauldron of human extremes: A book review

Posted on 17 August 2010 by Philip Koh

The opening sentence of “The Third Reich: A new History” is both a premise and promise of this highly praised work: “This book is about what happened when sections of the German elite and masses of ordinary people chose to abdicate their individual critical faculties in favour of a politics…

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Revisiting Rumah Ehsan

Posted on 16 August 2010 by Sook Lin Yap

The writer first wrote of Rumah Ehsan KKB almost two years ago. Recently she revisited the place. Here is her story. KKB 13th July 2010 I returned to KKB last week, together with the brave reporter, MK. No one has been allowed to visit the ‘home’ since the story was…

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