THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER One of the happiest persons I’ve met is my maternal grandmother.  I lived with my grandmother—even though not continuously—so I knew she was a genuinely happy person.  She woke up early, she helped in the kitchen, she would do anything to help.  When she�...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Justin was a brilliant philosopher before he became a Christian. After he became a Christian, he did not abandon philosophy. Instead he kept his profession and life’s calling because he said, after he became a Christian, he became a “better philosopher.” Justin, who liv...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Author and pastor, Chuck Swindoll likes to remind people that “life is ten percent what happens to us and ninety percent how respond to it.” To give a concrete example he points to Joni Eareckson Tada, that ten percent of her life is paralysis and ninety percent of her li...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER As I write this our brother Tensas is lying in a hospital bed. The doctors are doing more testing to ascertain the nature of his health issues. I, too, just returned from my meeting with my urologic oncologist who told me that the MRI’s result shows there is lesion on my pr...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Last Thursday, Jeanne Obadja, a friend in ministry, went home to be with the Lord. I knew her when we both served together as faculty members of a seminary in Jakarta 25 years ago. Since then we never had the chance to serve together but from time to time we bumped into [&hel...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER On Wednesday, August 7, in the wee morning hour Our Lord Jesus came and took our brother Joseph Oei to his eternal home. After more than two weeks in a comatose stage, our brother Joseph is finally free to be with his loving savior and shepherd whom he had worshipped and serv...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER I have met several genius people and I have also met with their spouses.  I notice there’s one thing they all share in common: They are all married to highly intelligent women.  I cannot say that this is the norm but at least that’s what I see among those I know...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Deacons’ election is important, but it is not to be a big deal. And, that’s what I have seen over and over in our church. Every three years we select a new deacons’ board and I see you participate in the process seriously and prayerfully. You do not take it lightly beca...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER In one of his sermons, Billy Graham said, “I am prepared to die—in fact, I am looking forward to it—and when you are prepared to die, you are also prepared to live.” What a profound statement! Oh yes, we can only live to the fullest and to the deepest if we live [&hel...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER During my younger years I once worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant; I only lasted a day. Well, it’s not even a whole day, just a few hours in the evening. Since it’s a busy restaurant, I literally had to stand—picking up and putting dishes in a steam washer— withou...