但主愛更深廣
但主愛更深廣
曲/詞:余子麟
Copyright 2011 Alan C. Yu. UBP ARR
誰能叫我與主愛隔絕,
患難困苦逼迫麼?
然而信靠復活的主,
這一切事我已經得勝。
曾聽信仇敵控告,
忘記了後嗣名份,
但我軟弱時主總看顧,
致令我更深信:
主的愛更深更廣,
主的愛更深更廣,
主的愛橫越高低生死,
超過現在將來;
主的愛更深更廣,
主的愛更深更廣,
沒有誰人能奪去破壞,
主的愛永遠擁抱我。
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但主愛更深廣
曲/詞:余子麟
Copyright 2011 Alan C. Yu. UBP ARR
誰能叫我與主愛隔絕,
患難困苦逼迫麼?
然而信靠復活的主,
這一切事我已經得勝。
曾聽信仇敵控告,
忘記了後嗣名份,
但我軟弱時主總看顧,
致令我更深信:
主的愛更深更廣,
主的愛更深更廣,
主的愛橫越高低生死,
超過現在將來;
主的愛更深更廣,
主的愛更深更廣,
沒有誰人能奪去破壞,
主的愛永遠擁抱我。
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「神為我打了一個深井,井裡充盈著從不稍減的清泉 ……」
在FES四十週年特刋之中,斗叔曾經以「井」與「泉」形容自己的事奉生涯。數年前,有機會為他的新作寫下薦語,「井」的圖像再次浮現,意外地拼湊出一幅對聯,記下了二十年來我所認識的斗叔:井中泉、流溢生命智慧
井外天、啟迪無盡生機
井中泉、流溢生命智慧
斗叔的生命故事,就像深井裡的清泉,處處流溢着對生命的領受與洞見。
六十年代離港赴加升學,透過「温城中國基督徒團契」信主,斗叔在大學時代已經是「泉源」刋物的中堅份子。透過校園及文字事工,斗叔與那一代的戰友(Winnipegers),不僅開拓了本地華人學生福音運動,更為加國華人教會的成長奠下美好的根基。
八九年斗叔一家移民赴加,並加入「使者協會」展開新一里路的事奉。縱然經歷妻子笑萍(斗嬸)患病及離世,斗叔卻在人生幾許風雨之中,以穩實生命領導「使者」隊工繼續前行。
從「研經訓練」、「門徒訓練營」,到後來的「傳禱小組」或「使者訓練學校」,斗叔所注重的,都不單單是活動的大小或人數之多寡;而是同工內在的生命,是否如江河活水一般,影響著所服待學生的生命。
九四年中,斗叔將領導棒子交予王龍朗弟兄,前赴温哥華拓展加西學生工作。在短短數年之間,斗叔的生命燃點了一群心中有火的年青人,當中多人相繼成為使者的同工或長期義工,並促成2000年「使者學生中心」新一頁的開展!
在個人層面,斗叔亦成了自己學生工作上的生命師傅。2003年中,前領導同工王龍朗弟兄因車禍離世,筆者在戰兢中接過棒子。當年幸得斗叔從旁指點,在轉變之中,將心中座標由終結移向另一個開始,踏上新的生命篇章。
今日回首,實在感謝天父在這二十年來,將斗叔放在楓葉國的土地,透過他如泉湧溢的生命,從多倫多到温哥華,滋潤了無數年青生命的心田!
井外天、啟迪無盡生機
斗叔口中常常提及門徒事工要達致「深廣互扣」,他的生命亦然。除了深厚的生命內涵,斗叔廣濶的視野,加上不斷學習的精神,常常為所接觸的年輕生命,打造出片片新天。
在「使者」事奉初期,基於以往在香港及東亞區學生工作的經驗,斗叔帶領「使者」與InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF Canada) 及 國際學生福音團契(IFES)接軌。還記得1991年夏天,有機會與斗叔聯袂前赴美國惠頓大學,参加IFES World Assembly,首次親嚐普世學生福音運動的震撼,更幫助「使者」思索作為學生運動一員的獨特身份與使命。
透過参與1992年「加拿大華人宣教大會」(華宣)的籌備,斗叔有機會認識一群來自温哥華的學生團契領袖。除了將加國東西兩岸的學生串連起來之外,更促成九十年代兩次全國學生領袖的福音會議,為本土的學生福音運動寫下閃亮的一頁。
在多倫多定居的那段日子,斗叔經常串連一群敢於思巧探索的同道中人,在家中定期相聚對論。除了延續昔日香港《吶喊》雜誌背後的「沙龍」精神外,更有機會與渥太華另一群基督徒專業人士連線,促成一系列的「雙城對話」(Inter-City Dialogue)。
近年天父引導斗叔,在太平洋兩岸穿梭,推動以信仰為本的職場事工。除了參與發起「公義樹」及「學學堂」事工,更與多位年輕畢業生在創業荊途上緊密同行,一起尋索井外那一片藍天 (個別見証可見於斗叔遺作《學會講、學會學》一書底頁)。
結語
在2009年除夕下午,與温哥華同工余子麟弟兄在網上越洋分享,並在禱告中念記斗叔,想不到在不足四十八小時之內,竟然傳來斗叔安睡主懷的消息。沉痛之餘,兩地同工合力於三天之內於兩所「使者學生中心」設置追思閣,以供主內同道緬懷吊唁。以下為眾「使者」同工為斗叔所撰寫的輓聯。斗叔,新天新地再相見!磨劍一生 光如北斗引路
留芳千古 功賴使命承傳
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每次見面都會為你帶來經濟狀況改善的機會
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融雪之前
牧神搭上春色的火車,而
日光
在我們之間
各站停靠
一千座噴泉
交響夢
異次元的玫瑰
嬉戲之後
早點回家
Labels: Healing, Recommend, Reflection
Today I had two encounters about speaking the truth in love. In both conversations the parties were wrestling with the burden of carrying biblical wisdom that others were not yet ready to hear. What is the good of wisdom if it is not immediately transferable?
We read Jesus’ brief parable: “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” (Mt 13:52) But Jesus is not referring to a divine yard sale where everything one has received is immediately placed on display. He is, rather, offering us a picture of a multi-faceted jewel in which one facet at a time is offered for the sake of others. Some truths we have carried a long time. Other insights we received yesterday. The longer we dwell with “Lady Wisdom” the more we realize that not ever good thing can be set on the table at the same time.One can carry the core of a real truth, but learning when to speak that truth may be almost as important as the truth itself. True words out of season can overwhelm and even inoculate against that same word spoken in season. "When" is as much a feature of wisdom as "what."
We are made to carry a whole treasure, not a single facet. But a single facet, like “speak the truth in love” is often enough for the moment. The whole jewel is no less beautiful because it is hidden. Nor, ultimately, is it any less “useful.” Loving others enough to wait for the right season to speak has a way of keeping the whole treasure well polished and ready to be revealed in the right setting.
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我平時都不會在熱飲中加糖.
上個月14號後, 即情人節開始, 做了這件事:
每喝一杯街外買的熱飲, 包括任何熱咖啡和熱奶茶, 便儲起一包糖.
一個月後, 即三月十三日,
我儲起了這麼多糖.
按照現時的飲食習慣,
原來我每一個月就食少了這麼多糖.
每個月, 就少了這麼多的 "甜".
生活同時也彷彿苦了,
人, 難道真的需要很多 "甜" 嗎?
Labels: Recommend, Reflection, Thorns
每次,當望著手中擘開的餅,我總會提醒自己:我是永遠連於我主耶穌那裡,成為祂的手、腳、眼、耳、口…
擘餅的時候,我常常提醒自己:頭,或會因著表示謙卑而垂下,但我的眼睛,卻永遠需要向上望。因為我只有一位需要效忠的主,沒有其他 —— 我候命於祂、遵命於祂。
拿著手中擘開的餅,我省察。人其中一樣最大的悲哀,莫過於不再看見自己的錯,或是自己會錯。不再向神認罪的信徒,和聲稱不會再犯罪的人一樣是在自欺欺人。手中拿著的餅和杯,常提醒我,每天都需要神的賜予。
耶穌的身體已經為我們被擘開,以至四分五裂的我們可以被連合起來。一個身體。拿著這個被擘開的餅,我省察著自己與別人的關係。
而每當我望見手上拿著的餅和杯時,我總是堅持自己以微微的笑臉,以喜樂(不是罪疚)的心,和歷世歷代跟隨祂腳蹤的眾聖徒,同聲說:「主耶穌啊,我願袮來!」
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社會新聞娛樂化、政治新聞甜品化,結果整個香港就「光明頂化」。立法會議員鄭家富先生在議會談及巴士公司撤銷轉乘優惠時的「發言內容」,竟然可以跟電台節目隨便在巴士站找一個阿婆做的街頭訪問所說的一樣。議員的發言,發泄情緒的功能大於陳理。《城市論壇》在台下發言的的士司機代表,隨便都可以交出一句陶傑式的「副局長就咩都唔做拎20萬,我地個個月都踩幾更都唔夠交油錢車租,你話呢個咩世界?」雷曼的投資者對著鏡頭說:「呢D根本就係金融界既三聚氰胺。政府、金管局、銀行係咪要毒死我地呢D香港市民先安樂?」看香港的記者大哥大姐們追逐跟特首會面後的旅遊局長時,記者如食人魚,一哄而上,我以為國內的高官去了福臨門吃飯。這就是梁家榮先生口中所說,在他的新聞理論下出現的新聞生態嗎?
追求快感已經成為消費媒體內容時大部份人的唯一要求。有很多道理是需要用文字理解,有很多虛話是經不起邏輯驗證的。但是,事已至此,學者又好,公共知識分子也罷,寫到手斷,都不會有人會去改變這個瘋狂的世界。
年頭的春照事件,年尾的王先生倪先生周小姐張小姐,你又有沒有談過讀過討論過分享過消費過?獵巫,是沒止境的。今日倪軀王軀張軀歸故土,他朝君體他體也相同。我們下一個爛雞蛋的目標是什麼?我想,下一個陳世美∕bastard∕花心男∕負心漢未出現之前,所有娛樂雜誌的大佬們,都一定會高聲齊唱衛蘭姐姐的新唱片的第5首,《你知道我在等你們分手嗎?》。
有沒有人幫個忙,提名林夕先生到諾貝爾文學獎?
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Do you sometimes hear people confess that he/she draws up a plan by himself/herself and then present it to God, only to regret it later because he/she should have instead went to God first to seek His will and plans for us? Unfortunately, whenever we plan, there's often an aspect of planning in which we try to predict the future -- something humans can never do. [...] "How often do the things we plan in life work out just the way we planned them? [...] Have you ever gotten one day to go according to plan? [...] We need to stop worrying about planning and spend more time preparing." We prepare by praying (Prov 19:21), by waiting, by being willing to be directed by God (Prov 16:9).
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On the night that I saw the play, a Q & A followed the performance. Two thirds of the audience stayed for it. I spotted small groups from about four different churches from around Chicago-land. Yet it seemed they had brought friends who were not necessarily from their church, but were interested in an evening of professional theater. Several groups continued the conversations from the Q & A into the bar next door. I noticed McLean and Fiske were also there, making themselves available to groups of people who wanted to discuss the ideas of the play. The event not only brought the novel to life, but became a kind of communal affair.
Certainly the individual can read the novel and wrestle with the ideas in the privacy of their own home. However, when Screwtape is standing a few feet away in real flesh and blood, and he steps down afterwards and dialogues about what just took place, and when others around you are engaging in the concepts of the play, those ideas become harder to dismiss.
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第一「億」是失「憶」,社長勉勵明光社同工要走出近年「被打壓」、「被逼害」的心理陰霾。第二「億」是回「憶」,數算這十年的恩典。
三「千萬」是甚麼呢?其實「千萬」是「一定」的意思。第一,千萬要珍惜同路人;第二,千萬要在俗世洪流中堅持其信息;第三,千萬要安息,從平靜中支取力量和智慧,有時候溫柔和沉默亦是力量。
社長更引用《笑傲江湖》為例,「令狐沖能夠笑傲江湖,就是因為能『忘‧記』--忘卻別人對他的中傷攻擊,但卻記著別人的恩惠友情。做機構工作,有時亦需要一些俠義精神!」
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無綫轉性了。
親生仔的時代已成歷史。是否察覺,鄭嘉穎登上視帝寶座之後,反而無運行?就算黎姿當視后,之後星途亦不過爾爾。那1年,若由如妃得獎,鄧萃雯吐氣揚眉,普羅觀眾必覺無綫公允,那有以後年年不斷的傳聞─高層飯局、續約換獎、花旦獻媚、小生掃背……
但直至41周年,一切轉變。
民意大勝!民意調查或藝人調查的熱門,都大勝。
民心勝一仗,以後便難回頭。但,頒獎禮應如此。公允一些,無綫形象便正面一些,可能比起製作正氣節目《冰天動地》或《了解‧關懷‧一百萬人的故事》更易贏得民心。
陳志雲的一票,勝過他的《冰天動地》臉容,亦勝過他的千言萬語。
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People are free to choose. People will vote with their feet. But I’m convinced that at the roots of the church split movement and the church-consumer drive is a deeper ill, and that is our inability and unwillingness to love and forgive– and be reconciled to– all people. It betrays the serious fracture not only in the church, but in all religion, all races, and all people. It exposes the fact that we love ideas more than our fellow human beings.
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從頭學崇拜
作為基督徒,我們最基本的信仰責任,便是每星期日返崇拜。
崇拜,幾乎是每一個基督徒每週都會做的事情,卻甚少有人教我們如何返崇拜。你可能會問:返崇拜,是很自然不過的事情罷!那也要人教?
情況就好像談戀愛。當然,不用教,年輕男女也會談起戀愛來。但若果有人教導他們談戀愛的正確心態和技巧,他們便可以少走不少冤枉路吧。
今日,或許我們對崇拜有諸多的不滿足,又或許我們對崇拜無甚感覺,又或許我們自覺對崇拜沒有問題... 無論如何,也是時候來從頭學習如何參加崇拜吧!