Inexplicable Problems!

Inexplicable problems!

Khen Lim

Just a quick note to let my readers know that my latest article, “Is the World Going Out of Control or Is God Losing Control” has been quite problematic to publish on Blogger and I’m not sure why that’s the case.

Everything I have done in this article is identical to all the past articles I have done and posted here. Yet I have come across some persistent issues. After I have uploaded the article, Blogger informed me that saving the work is not possible. Even after clicking ‘Dismiss,’ Blogger persisted in auto-saving and came up with the same impasse. After fine tuning the layout of the article, the problem still wouldn’t go away and that is after I have added the usual images to break up the texts. Images actually mean very little but I use them to make the texts a little more readable (and less intimidating!)

By now, it was well past midnight and so my last resort was to remove everything and upload the article all over again. This time, I did it section by section and then attempted to save it one bit at a time. That way, I hoped to catch the problem.

For the whole article, it appeared I had no problems saving it. Every section I progressively uploaded was successfully saved that is, until I got to the Reference part where I would list the resources (including links) I relied on in building up the article. Once I got to this part, Blogger gave me problems in saving the article. Tried as I did, this uploaded part just wouldn’t save successfully but once I had it removed, the problem was gone. At least that was what I thought.

I then decided to reinsert the images, beginning with the title image at the very start of the article. The moment I did that, the problem returned. It was most irritating and inexplicable. It was really so late into the night that I had to give up and just publish the article as it is.

I apologise for all this but I’m not sure if I can lick the problem even later in the day or coming week. If there are no changes to it, suffice then to say I will have surrendered completely to the gremlins of annoying technology.

Nonetheless, I hope the article is readable and you find it interesting. God bless.

K.

To read the article, Is the World Going Out of Control or Is God Losing Control?.

A Christmas to Remember (Message to Readers)

A Christmas to Remember

Image below by Douglas Chew Ho, New York (c) 2017.

To my readers and all visitors to my website

Thank you very much for your patronage. 

Whether you are a regular or an occasional reader or you’ve just stumbled across my site, I am grateful and I hope that you’ve found at least some of the contents edifying for you.

2017 has been a big year in many ways. Politically, the biggest change comes from America. We’re all praying something powerfully good will come out of it. 

As for me, my two little girls are now two years old and growing up very quickly. Still they’re a handful to cope with, yet beautiful as always. I thank God for that. Our family has also found a wonderful church to call our new spiritual home. Called Kledang Community Chapel, the people are warm, friendly, helpful and in a word, wonderful.

Regular readers will have noticed that the weekly church history articles have dropped off quite alarmingly and that’s because I’m struggling with time availability. This (site) being a one-man show has been a battle to keep running but even so, I pledge to continue no matter how difficult it is.

As we now come to the end of the year, may I take this opportunity to wish all of you and your families a Holy Christmas, one where you find yourself joyous in the historical and future significance of the birth of Jesus. Take every opportunity you have to find Christ in one another’s heart. Seize the moment to love and be loved. And awake to the coming New Year with a resolve to be a better Christian that in the fullness of Christ, do wonderful things that glorify the Father.

May Christmas be eventful for you.

Khen Lim

A clarification as to what this blogsite is about

A clarification as to what this blogsite is about

Khen Lim

Image source: RCCG Household of Faith

A little more than a week ago, I shared an article with a pastor that I drafted on the sovereignty of God, which I plan to publish here in a fortnight from now. Seeing that he had years of experience running a Bible College in the West Indies, he would be a good person to ask for suggestions to improve what I wrote.

In turn he wrote an email back to me, remarking that Systematic Theology is a very difficult topic to touch on let alone explain. And I couldn’t agree more. But that led to more challenging questions he asked, which, for the benefit of my readers, I’ll attempt to answer: