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Fifteen pro-life truths

William Chong — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:12:41 +0000

From a booklet by John Piper (emphasis mine):

Existing fetal homicide laws make a man guilty of manslaughter if he kills the baby in a mother’s womb (except in the case of abortion). Fetal surgery is performed on babies in the womb to save them while another child the same age is being legally destroyed. Babies can sometimes survive on their own at [...]

Why should we expect to emerge unscathed?

William Chong — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:00:12 +0000

I read this quote the other day:

“Marriage, see, was God’s idea. It’s one of the most potent metaphors in all of Scripture for the way God loves us and the way we’re to let ourselves be loved by him. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. To the contrary, it’s fraught with peril. Any good marriage [...]

y’Ear in Review 2010 and 2011

William and Cheryl Chong — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:53:17 +0000

Summing up 2 years of life on one page isn’t an easy task. But a rain-swept, humid summer’s day in Auckland offers us the chance to share what the last two years of life have been like for us.

Much has happened since the last time William wrote to you. And much more since the earlier years, [...]

US Holiday/WG11 Conference – DC take 2, travelling back, final reflections

William Chong — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:00:14 +0000

DC take 2

We spent another day visiting Washington DC, the capital of the US. We got to see the US Capitol Building, didn’t end up doing the visitor’s tour because of their inconvenient security requirements (no water bottles, even if they’re empty!)

A real highlight was visiting the Library of Congress (first seen in the film [...]

A word about laminins (repost)

William Chong — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:55:32 +0000

(On Sunday we watched the video “How Great is Our God” at church; I was unexpectedly given the opportunity to share some some previous thoughts on why we should be more discerning about the claims made in that video concerning laminin, a particular molecule. I wrote it 2 years ago on another blog – so [...]

US Holiday/WG11 Conference – Covenant life, tears, crepes and goodbyes, Giant groceries

William Chong — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:11:49 +0000

Our learning and growing didn’t stop after the conference. We attended one of Covenant Life’s morning services, had lunch with our UK friends, and checked out music instrument and guitar stores.

Covenant life

We learnt just as much on Sunday as any of our days at WorshipGod 11. Firstly, we got to obsere first-hand how their regular [...]

US Holiday/WG11 Conference – mission-focused meetings, instrument shopping, Sunday meeting

William Chong — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:18:36 +0000

Mission-focused meetings

The final day of WorshipGod 11 had one last session, capping off a wonderful end to a wonderful few days. Craig Cabaniss taught us from 1 Peter 2:9, and cautioned against seeing our worship gatherings as a complete break from “the real mission” out there, and showing from Scripture that there is to some [...]

US Holiday/WG11 Conference – edify, songwrite, organise, gather live

William Chong — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:17:23 +0000

Day 3 of WorshipGod 11. One general session, two more seminars, and an evening of singing for a live album recording. We worship a generous King, showering kindness on us!

Edify

For the morning session, the worship was led by Sojourn Music. Their songs have a unique indie-folk sound to their songs, and lead using a neoliturgical [...]

US Holiday/WG11 Conference – rehearse, seminars, NZ connection, Enfield, Thabite

William Chong — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:29:37 +0000

Day 2 of WorshipGod 11.

A full day of 2 general sessions and 2 seminars, as well as dinner with a family with strong NZ connections. Wow, thank you Lord for such an amazing day!

Rehearse

There was some more comedy from Mark Altrogge in the morning (it seems like a WorshipGod thing for Mark to encourage and [...]

US Holiday/WG11 Conference – sing, meet, glory

William Chong — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:13:40 +0000

Wednesday – Day 1 of WorshipGod 11.

Some miscellaneous observations to begin with first:

My USA driving skills have improved a bit, praise God! The weirdest thing here would definitely be the stop sign intersections. Instead of roundabouts, everyone has a stop sign in front of them, and whoever gets there first gets to drive first. Had [...]