TJ Gong

According to a survey released after the 9/11 tragedy, most Americans would say ” I love you” to their relatives and friends if they came to the end of their lives. It is human nature or perhaps for any living things that communicating love and affection is a type of God-given gift, to show we need love and…

I read an article in the newspaper, giving an account of  older couple who were found lying dead in the farming field. According to the news article, the couple were both very frail and interdependant to each other. Also the husband had to take care of his wife who was chronically and terminally ill. They…

Remember that David became a well-known, great hero in Israel after he with God’s help defeated Goliath, a Philistine giant. But in his later life as we read in 2 Samuel 21:15-22, David and his soldiers went out at war with the Philistines as they continued harassing the people of Israel. In one battle, David became tired and…

Having knowing Bathsheba his adulterer was pregnant, King David called back Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, wishing him to stay home with his wife but Uriah refused to return home, so David had him fight and killed on the frontline where the battle was the fiercest and the most dangerous. God was so furious with David’s wicked acts that…

My church has various outreach programs, one of which is the hospital visitation. Through regular visits to the patients at hospitals, the friendships with the patients and their families are usually built up so that the good news can be easily preached. Many of the patients and their families we’ve visited are quite amazed at why we  have sacrificed our time,…

Over the past couple of days the things from my work were so overwhelming that I felt depressed and lost peace in God. As I kept praying and seeking His will the melody of the hymn “Thy Word” kept ringing in my head when I woke up this morning. While I was worshipping and sing this song before God, His word immediately soothed…

“Too poor to have nothing left except money (窮到只剩下錢)” is a hugely popular phrase among the public. Most people don’t think this phrase apply to themselves because they assume that they are not rich enough to be called “rich fools”. Yet compared to our ancestors or the people in poor countries, most of us can be…

A friend of mine in his sixties is an elder in his church and serving Christians and non-Christians at home and abroad for many decades. He is always on the go doing God’s work here and there. He didn’t have much time resting in the Lord until he was diagnosed with cancer recently. In a recent…

This afternoon our school held a special meeting on the new pension system for private school teachers. Under the new system each private school teacher or staff will receive an increase of over two million NT dollars to his or her lump-sum retirement pension as well as be entitled to receive the same monthly pension as his or her counterpart in public…

Most of us more or less have heard about some of Aesop’s fables in which the story teller use animal stories to teach morals  and values to the readers. By the same token, in the New Testament, Jesus often spoke in parables so that his audience themselves could draw out  the moral or spiritual lessons from…