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  Healthy and unhealthy fear of God

  Oct 12, 2017

  Fear is a gift. It is also one of the deepest, life-preserving instincts within you. Without fear, you won’t live very long. But fear is a complex, multifaced phenomenon. Some fears help you stay alive, while others deform and imprison you.

  
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  A prayer for stillness

  Oct 06, 2017

  Be still and know that I am God. Scripture assures us that if we are still we will come to know God, but arriving at stillness is easier said than done.

  
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  Exclusion, discrimination in the name of religion distances us from God

  Oct 06, 2017

  To understand this Sunday’s parable, we need to consider the situation back in the time of Our Lord. Very often, farms and vineyards were owned by foreigners or by wealthy Israelites who lived a great distance away, usually in foreign countries.

  
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  Our struggle with riches

  Sep 27, 2017

  A number of years ago I attended a funeral. The man to whom we were saying goodbye had enjoyed a full and rich life. He’d reached the age of 90 and was respected for having been both successful and honest.

  
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  Shared destiny: Removing exploitation and renewing the nation

  Sep 27, 2017

  Now that the general election is around the corner, we can expect the various political parties to jostle for attention and canvas voters in the weeks and months ahead.

  
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  God’s command to kill the Canaanites

  Sep 21, 2017

  In his autobiography, Eric Clapton, the famed rock and blues artist, shares very candidly about his long struggle with an addiction to alcohol.

  
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  Cry of the poor, cry of the earth – and a further nod to Vatican II

  Sep 21, 2017

  First, extreme weather wreaked havoc and destruction across the world from the strong hurricanes in the Caribbean and southern United States to the typhoon that lashed Vietnam, which even spilled over into the northern part of Peninsula Malaysia.

  
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  Achievement versus fruitfulness

  Sep 15, 2017

  There’s a real difference between our achievements and our fruitfulness, between our successes and the actual good that we bring into the world.

  
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  Working to dispel the pessimism surrounding the nation

  Sep 15, 2017

  This weekend, we celebrate 54 years since the formation of Malaysia. We should be celebrating all the things that we have been blessed with — abundant natural resources and a diversity of cultures and spiritual traditions, our strategic location between economic powers, China and India, and the natural goodwill among Malaysians at the grassroots level.

  
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  Stuck in traffic

  Sep 11, 2017

  There’s a famous billboard that hangs along a congested highway that reads: You aren’t stuck in traffic. You are traffic! Good wit, good insight! How