TJ Gong

One day a leader from the Jewish synagogue came begging Jesus to heal his daughter, for she was dying in bed. On the way to the leader’s house, someonemet them halfway saying to the leader, “Your daughter is dead. There is no use bothering the teacher.” Hearing this, Jesus comforted the leader, “Don’t be afraid; just…

As I came out of prayer meeting at my church this evening, I unconsciously kept humming some song lines, “Oh Jesus, Jesus, I want to win your heart.” I was unaware why I kept singing this Christian hymn without knowing the name of the song. Later I found out that was a Chinese song titled “My grace…

Jesus spent three and a half years teaching his disciples about the Kingdom of God. During the period of time he taught by the situations they’re experiencing. One day Jesus and his disciples were on a boat on the way to the other side of a lake. While Jesus was having a nap, the wind…

One of my younger daughter’s classmates recently passed an exam for gifted education held by another elementary school. Each year many students from the surrounding areas of the school take the exams in order to attend “gifted education classes”. To successfully enter gifted education classes, it is common here in Taiwan that many parents have sent their children…

To survive the current economic depression, college or university students are often advised as early as possibly to develop their second technical or professional skills by means of which they may gain the upper hand in this keenly competitive market. Even many parents start worrying that their children may lose competitiveness when they grow up, so they begin…

To attract parents to sent their children to their daycare centers, some kindergartens put on aids to promote their curricula saying, “Don’t let your children fall behind or fail at the starting line. Our learning programs will equip your kids to be successful in the future.” This is only one of  the advertising slogans used by…

“I committed a lot (of crimes) – kidnap, robbery, killing people … many things, intimidation. And I was sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison,” said Pastor Lu as he took an interview with a local media (reported from BBC News Service) about his life-changing experience. Pastor Lu used to be a gangster,…

This morning as I arrived in eight o’clock class, no student showed up on time and they came in one by one until the recess time. Asked why they were late for class, each one of them spoke out daringly, “I got stuck in a traffic jam.” “My house was almost flooded because of early morning heavy rain.”…

John the Baptist was the first person to usher Jesus into the Jewish world and call him the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). The Jews asked John if he was the Messiah they had expected to deliver Israel. He said no in reply and called himself a voice shouting…

On the way back to Taipei the other day my wife asked if I had changed my mind to be under the leadership of a female pastor. In fact, I didn’t remember why she brought up this controversial issue in Christian world. The role of women has undergone a drastic change over the half century since…