2012: Blog Highlights
Year in Review, part 3. Because I read a lot last year, I could write a lot. I had a personal target on the number of blog hits, and thanks to the endorsement of some popular friends, I surpassed that target by a few hundreds. I write to clarify my own thought...
God’s Humility
Before Men and Angels, part 1 Thoughts from reading the Conflict of the Ages (COTA) series. Join the COTA in a Year reading group on Facebook. In the opening chapter of the series, Why Was Sin Permitted, the stage for the controversy between good and evil is set. In...
GYC 2012: What I Could Give
I’ve been an attendee. I’ve been a volunteer. Now I reflect on another role: a seminar presenter. But before that, some other highlights from GYC: Star struck… by Dr. Hasel | Adam Ramdin’s Sabbath sermon – simply awesome | David Shin’s last evening devotion –...
2012: My Book List
Year in Review, part 2. I did not quite hit the 50-book target in 2012, but I'm happy with 45. This is the filtered list of books I read, separated into four tiers, the first one being super-duper-highly recommended. First tier Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller...
Book Review: Every Good Endeavor
Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, Dutton Adult, 2012. I daresay that Every Good Endeavor is my favorite book this year. That’s #1 out of 40-something books I’ve read. If you could hear my mind while reading, you would...
How To Have the Most Fun at GYC
Or at least, my take on it. When I first started coming to GYC, I would remember every message, every speaker, and every conviction felt during each session. I would even remember who sang which special music for which evening. I learned so many new things, heard so...
The Transcendent Being
Philosophy objectifies its themes. Imagination creates an image, reason coins a concept. All conceptualization is limitation, restriction, reduction. In the question, What is the cause of being? the ultimate has been restricted to one aspect, to one category. "Cause"...
The Nerd That I Am
So Goodreads is telling me I’m behind in my 2012 reading target – 16% behind, to be precise – and I don’t like it one bit. Plus, it’s December already! Since I’m an engineer, I can’t help obsessing about numbers. My target for the year is to read 50 books. I finished...
The Education of Jesus Christ
When mankind sinned, we are all enrolled in the school of suffering. And marvelously, in the Divine Mind, the education of Jesus Christ was also to be done in the same school.