Archive | November, 2010

Proverbs 4:18

Posted on 29 November 2010 by Peter Young

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. (Proverbs 4 : 18, NIV) Let us ensure that we are walking on this well-lit path.…

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Sentenced to death for blasphemy

Posted on 29 November 2010 by Peter Young

LAHORE: A Pakistani cabinet minister on Monday ratched up the pressure on President Asif Ali Zardari to pardon a Christian mother of five sentenced to death for blasphemy. Aasia Bibi was sentenced to hang in Pakistan’s central province of Punjab this month after being found guilty of insulting the Prophet…

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Kangaroos in full view

Posted on 24 November 2010 by Goh Keat Peng

Once thought to only exist in Australia, we now know better. In fact, even in Australia, these unique animals are more easily spoken about than viewed. In the sixties when on my first visit to that country, I was on the farm outside Perth and my hosts felt it their…

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Islamic matters in Pakatan states

Posted on 22 November 2010 by Tricia Yeoh

Political competition between the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat coalitions is predicated on numerous fronts, the more sensitive of which involves that of religious matters. There is certainly a long history which has set a fertile ground for political parties to continually outperform the other in attempting to be more…

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Whose priority? Which gospel?

Posted on 22 November 2010 by Vinoth Ramachandra

I am told that, at the recent Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, a popular American preacher and author vigorously asserted that evangelism, understood as the verbal proclamation of the Gospel, was the Church’s foremost “priority”. Since this is a typical, knee-jerk reaction that talk about social justice or “integral mission”…

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Habakkuk 3: 19

Posted on 22 November 2010 by Peter Young

19The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. (Habakkuk 3:19, NIV) Do we want to venture with the Sovereign Lord on the heights or are we content to remain as we are on the…

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The release of Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted on 22 November 2010 by Peter Young

The release of Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s democracy icon, on Saturday, 13th November 2010, was warmly welcomed by world leaders and human rights’ organisations. She has been under house arrest by Myanmar’s ruling generals for 15 of the past 21 years with no access to media, including the internet and outside…

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The guest who sets your house on fire

Posted on 15 November 2010 by Goh Keat Peng

He was welcomed into the house in the hope that like most others who crossed the threshold of your home he would be part of the family. You treated him not as a guest but a family member. He had family rights. You gave him big roles to play within…

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Article 153 (yes, THAT one)

Posted on 15 November 2010 by Lee Hwok Aun

53 years on, we are still mired in Article 153 This year, the 53rd since Malayan Independence, has heard numerous references to the 153rd Article of our constitution. People have weighed in from various angles, but stalemate persists because we keep repeating to the same positions. A few bear mentioning.…

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John 17:22 -23

Posted on 15 November 2010 by Peter Young

22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even…

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Death at a care centre

Posted on 15 November 2010 by Peter Young

On Sunday, 24 October 2010, Brian Goh Kah Heng, a 19-year old autistic and physically-disabled youth, died in Rumah Bahagia, an unlicensed shelter for the mentally-disabled (persons with learning disabilities) in Taman Kanagapuram, Jalan Kelang Lama, KL. He had been at the shelter for only five months. The post-mortem report…

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What Zaid did instead

Posted on 13 November 2010 by TK Tan

In an interview with The Malaysian Insider the day he announced his decision to withdraw from the PKR deputy president race, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said that he did not want to speak any longer on the issue and expressed hope that his decision would be accepted and that he be…

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