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If you have not done so, please consider giving to those in Taiwan who lives are greatly affected by the recent typhoon Morakot.

WorldVision Canada has started to accept donations specific for this typhoon relief earlier this week. Please visit their Chinese page in order to donate online and/or for more details.

[link: worldvision canada]

抓緊神話語——曾思瀚博士聖經專題講座

[link: 加拿大證主]

在家晚飯，看見一則基督教書室的「開學大優惠」：

我：「嘩，而家真係生意難撈，基督教書室同開學有乜關係…？」

Cc：「唔係呀，佢地都有筆呀、簿呀，嗰D嘢賣…」

我：「但係唔係嗰D貨減價喎！」再睇真一點：「係屬靈書呀、聖經呀…唔通趁各位同學要開學，送本聖經俾你先？」

姨媽：「噢，我知，我知…」

「係神學生要開學嘛…」

眾人：!#$&*@(#$!…

若你有意接受神學訓練，但不知自己能否應付？
或是你有心深入了解跟基督信仰有關的研究，但在云云書海中，不知如何入手？

你可參考以下出自加神的書單。這是他們MDiv 的學科課本及延伸閱讀。絕大部份都是華文書（一些是中譯 ）  。

1. 一年中文書目
2. 二年中文書目
3. 三年中文書目

不要被這些長長的書單嚇怕。相反，視這些為神學院老師幫你精挑細選的好書。我常說，基督教出版質素的參差也是信徒靈命裹足不前的原因之一。今天你在書室亂買、亂讀，後果可能和你不買、不讀一樣嚴重。

重視這些書單，它會成為你生命中的好嚮導。

[link: Tyndale Library Blog]

John Wesley’s Small Group Questions to be used in contexts of two to three people:

1. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
2. Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
3. Do I confidentially pass onto another what was told me in confidence?
4. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
5. Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
6. Did the Bible live in me today?
7. Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
8. Am I enjoying prayer?
9. When did I last speak to someone about my faith?
10. Do I pray about the money I spend?
11. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
12. Do I disobey God in anything?
13. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
14. Am I defeated in any part of my life?
15. Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy or distrustful?
16. How do I spend my spare time?
17. Am I proud?
18. Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisee who despised the publican?
19. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I going to do about it?
20. Do I grumble and complain constantly?
21. Is Christ real to me?

[link: reclaimed via Unworthy Sinner]

Jocelyn, Cc and I were at Enoch Summer Camp during the Civic Holiday long weekend. It’s been a while since the last time I posted some family pictures. Hope you enjoy them!

主日講道：怎樣才算作神的工？（約6:24-35）

[audio:sermons/enoch family camp 2009/John_6_24-35.mp3]

MGC – 20090801 – Niagara on the lake – Enoch Summer Camp

Guys, you know who you are.

We are so easily aroused sexually when explicit videos and images are just a click of a mouse away.

We don’t talk about it at church or fellowship, because don’t want to talk about it.

We don’t wanna talk about it, because we don’t see what we can do about it.

Yet we have seen how the world is twisted around us due to such uncontrollable desire.

We need to do something about it.

We need to act now.

I challenge you to keep your online presence accountable among fellow brothers whom you trust.

Go to x3watch.com and download their free apps. It will then keep a log of all the sites you visited and then email a report to your accountability partners (2) in a frequency you preferred (1,2 or every 4 weeks).

Nothing fancy. Just a report of all questionable sites and links to friend(s) you hold accountable for.

Yes, for IT genius like yourself, the apps can be easily stopped or disabled.

But you know whom you are deceiving —

Nobody,

just yourself.

Let me know if you want me to be your accountability partner. I will be asking 2 of you to do the same for me.

A community that really concern about the real you,

the one nobody is watching.

Do you want to be a part of this?

當我們等NT Wright的COQG系列中，關於保羅那冊出爐，等到頸長之際，華神的邱昭文老師原來正著手為《校園》把Jesus and the Victory of God翻譯為中文。分享中她也提到出版社正面對的壓力，和作為譯者的感受和看法。

我也曾和種耔的Samuel討論過《校園》決定譯COQG會不會是吃力不討好之舉？我不大清楚亞洲神學生的英語情況。不過我總覺得，會對此書有興趣之神學生，其英文程度，會不會還需要依賴中文譯本？在北美，就這系列的學術程度，一本華語信徒是不會看的。看的，很有可能，已在英語神學院，也就可以看原著罷，是嗎？

不過，我還是如邱老師一樣，「當我發現校園早已買下版權，真是又驚喜、又佩服」。

能有這樣願境的出版社，撐！

[link: 邱老師網誌]