Posted on 20 June 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
- a Father’s Day message
Christians march to the tune of Christ. Where He sends, we will go. This was a lesson learned and executed by the paralytic whom Christ healed in Matthew 9.6,7: …he then said to the Paralytic—”rise, take up your bed and go home.” And he rose…
Posted on 01 June 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
My attempts late last night and early this morning at describing the meaning of Gaza and the plight of its people have all ended with neither coherence nor completion. Words fail. I could find no mind or talent or technique equal to the task. So much needs to be done…
Posted on 17 May 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
Regardless of the results of the Sibu parliamentary by-elections, the reported “special grants” of RM1.75 million to four Methodist churches on the eve of polling day is very troubling to me as a Christian who attends a Methodist church and I am sure to many other Christians.
It is always…
Posted on 12 May 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
If indeed it is true that there are people in Sarawak who feel that they live and function in a kind of cocoon, impervious to so-called ” national issues”, I respectfully ask that they should please think again.
In recent times, because of climate change, we have had reports of…
Posted on 25 April 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
As I write this at 9.00am on Sunday 25 April 2010, polling has just begun and of course the outcome of the by-election in Hulu Selangor is not yet known. Nevertheless, what is already known is the way in which the campaign had been conducted.
A doctored picture of the…
Posted on 21 April 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
The short answer to that is “To get to the other side.”
However, since chickens aren’t as simple-minded as they may seem to be, it may be necessary to ask a further question: “Why does the chicken feel it needs to go to the other side?” or “What does the…
Posted on 01 April 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
Children are God’s most wonderful and precious gifts to us. The world may be run and monopolised by grown-ups but a world without children will be deprived of the unique ways in which children force us grown-ups to view, learn and understand the fundamentals of life. The child’s perspective is…
Posted on 15 March 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
No matter how uncomfortable a fence may be as an improvised seat, the alternative to sitting on it, that is, to get off from it may for many be not a very comfortable option.
The human anatomy having got used to a certain position or posture may prefer to stay…
Posted on 04 March 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
Of all the places one can think of, the fence must be about the most uncomfortable place on earth to sit (or perch) on. To sit on the fence for a while may be alright but certainly not for long. Fences will poke and scratch us in our most tender…
Posted on 22 January 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
In the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, a spiritually poignant moment occurred when Moses
“.. came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the…