Choices We Make

There is a phrase that I am fond of saying. I think I say it more intensely and in frequency right around this time of the year when so many people have to make decisions. The phrase? “Your decisions determine your destiny.” I am firm believer of this. As I look at my life, I […]

Another Snow Day

As a kid I remember loving the snow days when school was canceled. But now as a parent, I have some different thoughts on it. Early this morning the kids’ schools called and left messages on the answering machine that school will be closed. After I came back from morning prayer, I was a bit […]

Boston Logan Airport

I am waiting for my flight here at Logan Airport to go back to Ann Arbor. As I am looking at people walking by (a weird habit of mine), my mind was going back to the fateful September 11th morning in 2001. It was right here at this airport where the terrorist entered and hijacked […]

On the Other Side

I have been going to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s library this whole week. It has been interesting to see some of the younger seminary students. It brought back a lot of memories of my seminary years at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. I couldn’t help but to think about the excitement, enthusiasm and the energy that I […]

The Arts Breaking Through

        With New York Philharmonic going to Pyongyang, North Korea recently, it made me think once again about the importance of the Arts and Media in the whole Transformasphere Movement. I am a believer that music and the arts are universal languages. Whenever I travel, I am constantly struck with how music […]

The Tragedy at NIU

Last Friday morning I read about the tragedy that happened on the campus of Northern Illinois University. I had some time to reflect on the incident and there were some lessons and reminders for me: 1) God is drawing attention to the college campuses. I don’t know why but within the last couple of years, […]

How Long is One Minute?

Tonight over the dinner table, Karissa asked us a question. “Is one minute a very long time?” she asked with an inquisitive heart. I could have given her a technical answer by having the whole family count 60 seconds and then tell her that we just went through one minute. But I decided to respond […]

Relationships and Missions

It is amazing to see the difference between the worldviews of the Islamic world and the Western world. In fact, this is one of the reasons why some people in the Islamic world hate the West so much. All the “junk” in the media (T.V. shows, pornography, Hollywood, etc) epitomizes the wanton and licentious lifestyle […]

Super Bowl XLII

The big day is finally here. There are some interesting articles floating around on the world wide web about who is going to win the Super Bowl. But the ESPN article on Tom Brady is quite interesting. Sometimes when a person is on top, it is easy for people to forget that they did not […]

The 4Ever

There has been something brewing in my mind and heart recently. I was thinking about what it meant to be completely surrendered to God. I think in some of our honest moments, we will have to say that we are not fully and completely surrendered to God, as we would like to think or believe. […]

Someone to Die For

        I have stated many time before that the reason why so many movies, which cause us to cry and move us emotionally, inspire us is because they somehow reflect some aspect of the Gospel message. It is not only in the movies but in real life, when we are able to […]

Cutting EDGE

This week, after the retreat, I had some time to think and reflect. I was thinking, “What do we need to do now in light of the blessings that we have received from the Lord?” Especially, with only 3 months left in this semester. What we do in these next 3 months will lay a […]

Gender Differences in a Car Ride

Yesterday I spent the whole day with the women in our family (Christina and KiKi). Christina and I picked up KiKi from school and to see the joy on KiKi’s face was worth it all. After getting her buckled in, I asked her how school was and she would not stop talking! This got me […]

MLK 2008

        Whenever Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday celebration comes around, I am always reminded about 3 things – the dream, the determination and the destiny. The infamous speech that was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 encapsulated a dream for the future. What would happen if God’s people […]

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