If you are holding something to yourself, not necessarily something that’s bad, but could be something that feels good, an honor, a treasure, a right, not only legitimate but even a blessed right, will you willingly lay it down and give it up if the Lord asks you to do just that? You will if, and only if, you see how the Lord emptied Himself, took a lowly form, took such humility, was obedient onto… Read More »Humility in the ruins of sin
Reading of an article by a young writer, “Anything But Christian: Why Millennials Leave the Church” left me in pain. One can easily call such Millennials faithless and impious. But I’m actually very touched by the article. As the writer cries out, “we want Jesus!” (not the church amenities and niceties). But today’s churches offer very little real “Jesus”. Youth is the best window to seek and find truth. Even a young person’s anger is… Read More »The Window of Youth
Toolots Inc., a cross-border e-commerce company headquartered in the greater LA area, is building an M2U (Manufacturer-2-Users) business model, which is a vertical platform that connects manufacturers directly to end-users to sell and service industrial equipment.https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7491861079837076113 M2U was created primarily to solve the problem of heavy intermediation faced by manufacturers, but we believe it will also be the right model to help achieve mass customization in manufacturing, a core act of the Industry 4.0 theme.… Read More »Mass Customization
Leviticus chapter 7: After the division of the sacrifice between the altar and the priest, the trespass offering is shared by all priests even though it belongs to the priest who conducts the sacrifice. What a marvelous picture in Leviticus. Today we live according to the Spirit of grace, not under the law. All saints are priests and can act on behalf of a sinner to make a trespass offering. Though we have nothing to… Read More »There is a time to fast, and there is a time to feast
A father’s letter to a child There’s a very basic legal concept called “burden of proof,” which you may know about. I’m going to use this as an analogy to explain a very basic principle of life to you. It is important. So please read carefully. I don’t write to you every day. In a legal dispute, a party who bears the “burden of proof” solely bears that burden to prove what he stands for.… Read More »“Burden of Proof” in Life
The West, including Europe and the U.S., is approaching the tyranny of ‘Absolute Relativism’. Liberalism has become self-contradictory and will lead to bondage. Under ‘Absolute Relativism’, there is no moral bottom. A society cannot survive if it believes ‘there is no absolute right and wrong’, let alone ‘there is absolutely no right and wrong’. Liberalism In 1859, John Mill published a book called On Liberty. This book became a representative work of Western liberalism. On… Read More »On Liberty
It’s the end of the year again. If the world even knows to be thankful, Christians certainly should be more thankful. He who is able to give thanks in good things is wise; he who is able to give thanks also in his difficult encounters has great wisdom. But for those who know the Lord, love Him, and see in Him the great end (perfection, fulfillment), gratitude in all things is more than a good… Read More »The Great Ending
Many times I have seen a forwarded message of “the shortest commencement speech of Peking University”. The speech was held in the highest esteem by many Chinese, but I read it with the opposite feeling. I know many may be offended by my thoughts. But I wrote down what I really felt in my heart anyway. For some reason, these thoughts came out in English, probably because I felt in my gut that it was… Read More »Idolatrous Atheism
Thanks to a brother’s sharing of the earlier history and experiences of the local assembly, I had a glimpse of the “first love” (Rev 2:4) that the assembly had in the beginning about 20 years ago. Tragically, the assembly gradually left the first love. A great treasure has been lost — a treasure in the Lord’s eyes, and a treasure to those who love the Lord. The assembly came under attack by the enemy through flesh.… Read More »The Holy Spirit will not work with our hypocrisy and self-righteousness
One of the most paradoxical and troubling experiences I have had in my Christian life is the existence of spiritual pride. The enemy’s scheme Pride as a human behavior is common, and is a very basic aspect of sinful human nature. But spiritual pride is much harder to understand and even harder to deal with. It’s easy to categorically say that any spiritual revelation that leads to pride is not true spiritual revelation. The real-life… Read More »The Spiritual Pride