If Jesus lives in today ’ s world, do you think he would open a face book account and send out friend requests everywhere? Remember once he had fed 5000 people with five loaves of bread and two fishes (Jn 6:13). If he can do that today, I ’ m sure you would wake up tomorrow with

过去一周见证了许多的心情跌宕，有喜有悲，也有旁观者的冷眼。许多人崇尚爱憎分明（太五 43 ），就是有恩报恩，有仇报仇，绝不含糊。当然这比起那些忘恩负义之徒，要强许多。但耶稣来，教导要爱我们的仇敌（太五 44 ），对许多人来说，有些匪夷所思。因为明显这有悖常情，非但不合逻辑，而且让亲痛仇快。若身

这个主日传统上称为棕榈主日，是主受难周的开始。当这一天，主耶稣骑驴进耶路撒冷，受到君王般的夹道欢迎（可十一 8-9 ）。然而谁曾想到，在短短一个礼拜的时间里，形势急转直下，措手不及，不但让耶稣的门徒和朋友愕然，就连要害耶稣的人，也身不由己（太廿六 3-5 ），甚至耶路撒冷的最高行政官，罗马巡抚彼拉多，

“ Live free or die ” , you don ’ t have to be a slave yourself to appreciate man ’ s yearning for freedom. There is no short supply of brave souls in history that chose to bow out of this world with this toast. Thanks to the never dying pursuit of freedom, a once ubi

这几天气温骤降，但仍然挡不住盎然春意，路旁的报春花黄得格外耀眼。很多人家已经开始整理庭院，剪枝育苗。“一年之计在于春”这句俗语，其实不单适用于园艺和农耕。 患难与试炼就如严寒隆冬，在冬天我们唯一能做的，就是默默持守信心的种子，不要把它当作沙石丢弃，而是在风雪中等待春天，和神所应许的丰年

It is a chilling experience witnessing how tsunami wiped out bustling towns: it happens all too quick, even without a loud protest. Yet protests do come later, mainly as afterthoughts by those who watch from afar. If there is no God, then there is no protest, for whom do you protest a

过去一周，整个世界都在关注日本，接二连三的灾难使人错愕。现代媒体和网路，用清晰的画面把灭顶之灾的真实带进千家万户，不用亲身经历，现在也知道地会摇动，水会汹涌，甚至空气微尘中都会暗藏杀机了，简直就像是部关于世界末日的好莱坞大片。真希望这只是一部电影，幕落之后，喝着饮料走出影院，阳光灿烂，天下太平依

What makes sense to one person may make no sense at all to another. This is especially true for spiritual matter, and squarely explains why same sermon may bring one to tears and drop another asleep. The moment when Gospel suddenly makes sense to you, congratulations! This marks your

现代社会 ，商业广告无处不在。就算你不看电视，不听广播，不订报纸杂志，也拦不住那些不请自来的广告，无论是竖在你家门口的木头邮箱，还是你电脑里的电子邮箱。这无孔不入的商业文化，甚至也吸引了一些教会和福音机构，策划广告，招揽人来听神的道。 如果神的道需要广告的话，也不需要刻意经营，因为在

Once my friend came back rather depressed from a job interview because during the interview she was asked to take a test. Although she graduated with straight A’s, she didn’t do well on that impromptu one and therefore got disapproved for the position. Fortunately the depression didn’t last