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Cultural Divide-Interesting Adventures

March 27, 2025 Li Sean 最新資訊

Author: Ancy Lee Born in Vietnam, my six siblings, including myself, lived in a Chinese town called “Cholon.” Cantonese was the business dialect that even the native Vietnamese learned to speak. Many of the Vietnamese natives sent their children to Chinese schools. Vietnamese and Chinese have many cultural similarities, but oddities remain between them that deny intermingling. It was not unusual for the Vietnamese to be jealous of the Chinese. They hurled name-calling such as “you bully” to their Chinese neighbours, meaning that the Chinese occupied their jobs, land, and economy. In the 1970s, the Chinese controlled 60% or more of the Vietnamese economy. A Chinese person’s impression

Home-stay and campus fellowship in Japan

March 4, 2025 Li Sean Talk about Life, Truth Monthly, Walk in Japan

Storm Buster Series Pius Chi-Shing Lee In 1988, I left Oslo for Tokyo on an early morning departure flight on a cold winter day. It was not a direct flight but had a relatively short overlay in Hong Kong. My destination was a small agricultural town in Aichi Prefecture (愛知縣), Central Japan. The last leg of the journey was by train from Tokyo to Aichi. Our plane approached Haneda Airport, Tokyo, around 8:00 pm local time. The vivid impression of a foreigner newly arrived in the megacity of Tokyo was indelible and resonates to this day. As a young man raised in Hong Kong and educated in

Narrow Escape of a Sure Death in Wars-Interesting Adventures

February 4, 2025 Li Sean Talk about Life, Testimony, Truth Monthly

Author: Ancy Lee Translator: Pius Lee I was born in Vietnam with five siblings. I am a second generation immigrant. Therefore we were a busy household of eight. We lived in ChoLớn, South Vietnam. It is a city of Chinese immigrants. During the 60’s and early 70’s Vietnam had experienced many big and small fierce civil battles between the North and the South. The North was under a communistic regime and the South a capitalistic regime. The geographical divide between the two fractions was the Hue Province. Hue is situated 955 km from Ho Chi Minh City (previously Saigon), the capital of the southern fraction. Many residents fled

The Eternal Meaning Behind Thanksgiving

December 31, 2024 Li Sean Talk about Life, Truth Monthly

Author: Timothy Tin Translator: Mandy Kwan When people think of Thanksgiving, we often think of the bountiful feast with turkey and other dishes. How often do people remember the treacherous journey of the Puritans, who came upon the shores of North America on the Mayflowerand their harrowing experience as they settled upon Provincetown, Massachusetts? In fact, the significance of these first settlers point to something far more eternal and transcendent than just this annual American tradition. The Puritans were a small group of sojourners, in search of religious freedom, risked their lives and left their homeland to arrive on the American shores. They had not expected that this journey

Christian Views on Modern Environmental Issues and the Roles of Stewardship

December 3, 2024 Li Sean Generation Z, Truth Monthly

By Gladys Mok Being sustainable and environmentally friendly are phrases commonly used nowadays. Markets, businesses and buildings promote themselves by being green. The environment has found its way into the political system, and politicians often include environmental issues in their speeches and political agendas. Climate change is one of the main driving factors contributing to this increasing awareness towards protecting the environment, and it has brought together countries around the globe to find a solution to manage this alerting situation at hand. However, climate change is not the only environmental issue of concern. Energy use, land degradation, water quality degradation, species extinction, waste generation, and global toxification are

[Storm Buster] Autumn Foliage Forecast

November 5, 2024 Li Sean Talk about Life, Truth Monthly

Pius Lee Autumn is pleasant. It has many public holidays for the most populous countries in the northern hemisphere. In the U.S. we have Labor Day, Columbus Day and the Veterans Day. In China there are Mid-Autumn Festival and Double-Yang Festival. Likewise, just to name a few, there is Oktoberfest in Germany, Diwali Festival in India, Chuseok in Korea, and Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico. In short, autumn is the time to relax and play. The weather in the northern hemisphere is usually cooperating. In autumn, large scale pressure systems are associated with subsidence flows. Subsidence flows result with cloudless skies and a lot of sunshine. However,

Sharing The Gospel – In 3 Minutes Or Less

October 2, 2024 Li Sean Evangelism Tips, Truth Monthly

PAUL CARTER I recently asked a room full of Christian leaders to share the Gospel as they would to a 10 year old child 3 minutes before they fell asleep. Then I asked them to share the Gospel as they would to a complete stranger on the subway who was getting off at the next stop. The results were a little disappointing to everyone involved. Most of us prefer to warm up to such things. Most of us would rather share the Gospel gradually, in snips and bits, over an extended period, within a safe and stable relational context. In general, I think that is a reasonable way

Business as Mission – Work is a calling of God

July 30, 2024 Li Sean Talk about Life, Truth Monthly

Mr. Lawrence ( Larry ) Law I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 10: 9b – 11 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound

Beating the Challenges, Seizing the Opportunities, and Doing Avodah Work!

June 26, 2024 Li Sean Talk about Life, Truth Monthly

By Pastor Peter Lau “Transform the workplace? Kidding? I couldn’t even SURVIVE!” It is the usual response I get when conversing with workplace Christians about bringing their faith to work. It’s NO kidding! Since the pandemic, we have all struggled with survival mode in our work. The Challenges of Work Recent research findings confirmed how difficult it is to survive work nowadays: Remote work has blurred the boundaries between work and private life, causing employees to prolong work hours to answer calls or emails, contributing to digital burnout.1 2 Technological advancements such as AI and automation, which result in shorter skill lifespans and the emergence of new occupations,

How to Feed Gen Z’s Hunger for Jesus

May 28, 2024 Li Sean Generation Z, Truth Monthly

Reprinting copy @ TGC, 2023 By KYLE RICHTER & PATRICK MILLER God’s Spirit is moving in the hearts and minds of Gen Z. College ministries and churches across the country have seen the impossible become reality: weekly gatherings and small groups bursting at the seams. In less than a year, our college ministry’s weekly attendance doubled in size. It seems to us the Holy Spirit is priming young adults to be more spiritually hungry than previous generations. Our awareness of these generational hungers led us to recalibrate how we evangelize and disciple Gen Z. While those efforts cannot entirely account for the spiritual renewal we’re seeing—that’s God’s work,