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"A Virginia pastor who defied warnings about the danger of religious gatherings during the pandemic and vowed to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital” died over the weekend after contracting Covid-19, his church said." -- New York Times, 14 April 2020, https://nyti.ms/3b6TDED It is sad that we often feel we disobeying God's word by not gathering together in this COVID-19 pandemic. It seems like we are that person that Paul describe as that other person in this passage: not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrew 10:25, NIV) Are we really afraid to die? Are we really disobeying God's word by not making physical communion? I remember that Jesus once said, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?" (Matthew12:11, NIV ) In the same event, he told a cripp...

Photo by Luis Quintero from Pexels I'm interested in writing this post because of Adam Neely YouTube video about Contemporary Christian Music or CCM. Adam hated the CCM nowadays and he's not alone. Josh Keefe video already done that also and keep pointing the problem. First of all, I kind of reluctant writing this. I'm a Church musician and have certain disagreements with few people from other denomination in the past. I'm afraid to desecrated music that being served as sacrifice to God. These people condemns modern worship music. They said that Hymnal songs are the legit worship song and these modern fakes weren't. I'm afraid to write them off as my temper would draw me condemning the Hymns. Fortunately, I recently found that these guys are a part of extreme Calvinist reformed. They are anti-Armenian and took a hard stance in pro-predetermination. Not just that, they recently take it too far by condemning other Church denominations. Their...

So far, COVID-19 is found not airborne. But, it is aerosol. It means it can attach itself on small particles on air. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1.full.pdf It seems the only solution for this virus spread is to not touch your face. You don't know what your hands been touching. COVID-19 may survived on surfaces in varied time. Far more than that, we are suggested to create social distancing. Avoid the masses! This is important as there are people that still ignorance about the danger. Like that one church in South Korea, religious people may have the best ignorance and hoax eater . Indonesia may have the wise decision. Backed by major religious organisations, we put all of the masses on-hold. This Friday the mosques are empty. Amazing how they, the Moslem, can come up with relevant Koran scriptures and Hadits to backup that. The Hindu also preparing their holy ground for Day of Silence by prohibiting people to come. Some Christian churches ma...

There is a new variant of Corona virus called Covid-19. This time it beats every Corona virus that already exist, e.g. Influenza, Ebola, Sara and Mers combined in fame. Everyone in all countries panicked. In Indonesia, panic buying made mask and hand sanitizer gone. Some food ingredients gone or have skyrocketed price. Now on every building in Jakarta, the security also check the body temperature of each person that goes in. People also used mask everywhere. Which according to Singapore's spokeperson not necessary. You put mask if you are sick. The sad thing is, people started prejudice against Chinese person. This is because the epidemic was discovered from Wuhan, China. Blah! When SARS showed up, people just chill. I mean, at the time, many chicken farmers burned their chicken. It was more impactful and more dangerous than Covid-19, but we chilled. Why aren't we now? From the statistics, Covid-19 would probably killed most whom at the age of 50 or more. And ...

This is a picture of Cikampek highway on Tuesday. The picture taken from elevated road that leads to Kalimalang road. The part flooded with water is entry point to enter the highway. It usually never flood. This year, however, we have several flood incidents. Which is weird! We usually have 5 years cycle of great flood. Once every 5 years there would be a big flood. What makes this year special is we got great flood more than once. Usually, we got a big flood once and that's it. Now, however, every heavy rain guarantee flood will happen. The biggest hit were on Bekasi, Jakarta's neighbor. My friend got his car flooded up to the roof. His neighbors also got the same. They were unprepared.  Their area never have flood before. It seems something change. There were constructions everywhere. This makes some water flows stopped. The epic thing is there are cases of elite housing made their neighbors getting flooded. It seems the developer didn't build the necessar...

Believe it or not, we are more desensitized by the Internet. We can now laugh at dark jokes. Jokes that would be inappropriate in real life. We can now laugh at these bad days. However, can this made us psychopathic? Thank God, we still disconnect from Internet. We still feel that Internet is a simulacrum. We can differentiate which is in the Net and which on the real life. We can joke about it anonymously on the Internet while behave on the real life. We still have generations of people that older and have traditional value over these wacky Internet culture. At least, we would be warned if we leak some of the Internet culture. But, what about the generation after us? The one that grew up with the Internet? The one that spend most of their time in the Net? We might think the real world is different because our conscious is not integrated with the Internet. At least, we grew up in an offline world. We still have moral compass taught from real interaction and tra...

As a Pentecost, I get a lot of critics from many preachers about how we sing our songs. These people, usually Lutheran people, criticising us for using contemporary band in our place of worship. They said, our worship is not legit. It is only for entertainment only, not worship. For background, in Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) music, we usually have bands and one singer as a Worship Leader. This singer have the most voice out of all. Plus, the lights, the environment and the big projector making the church looks like a concert. What's wrong with the concert look? What's so sacred about a liturgy? It isn't in the Bible. I mean, if you want to stick with the correct liturgy, then you should follow Didache . That's the authoritative source for the liturgy. It is a book straight from the Apostle's era. I don't see any of those protester using that. If we look into the Moses time, the Israelite worship God with dancing and singing. In that time, God didn...