Archive for April, 2007

Here is a link to a great new website developed by the North American Mission Board:
www.missionalresearch.info
It is full of information from demographic reports to people group research across North America. This site could prove to be very useful for existing churches that want to start churches, which should be all churches!
The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga […]

1) Every Monday and Wednesday for the next few weeks I will be holding English conversation classes with a few friends who are professors in the Hotel and Tourism Management department. Their English is really good already, but they just need to practice speaking. God has really blessed our conversation time and much of it […]

Jerry Falwell and Liberty University

This story is just one of many reasons why I distance myself from Jerry Falwell and Liberty University.
http://www.founders.org/blog/2007/04/jerry-falwells-friday-13th-declaration.html

Here is the wikipedia article:
The Thai New Year (Thai: สงกรานต์ Songkran) is celebrated every year on 13 April to 15 April. It is also celebrated in Laos (called Songkan in Lao), Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma where it is called Thingyan), and by ethnic Dai in Yunnan, China. Sri Lanka also celebrates a similar festival called Sinhalese […]

The City of God Part I

I am now 300 pages into “The City of God” by Saint Augustine and I have to admit, it is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. He does a brilliant job describing the relation of the Church with the world. The Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world.

I will […]

Christianity/McDonald’s

Since arriving in Thailand almost everyone I meet automatically associates Christianity with America and maybe Korea. I thought about that while reading articles on CNN.com and Foxnews.com about Easter Sunday being celebrated all around the world. Here are a few photos from Easter Sunday and Good Friday from different parts of the world that don’t […]