保守你心

重视心灵对人生命生活的作用,是圣经的一个特点。圣经谈到“心”的经文有多达四五百处。《箴言》是希伯来人智慧的结晶,是人们在圣灵感动下对生命、生活思考的成果,其中也论到心的重要作用。     

耶稣,有你一句话!简

经文：《马太福音》8章5节至13节《马太福音》8章5节至13节说的是耶稣治好百夫长的仆人。故事的开始是说耶稣来到迦百农,那里有位百夫长,请求耶稣为他的一位仆人治病。按照圣经记载,在这之先,耶稣作了＂登山宝训＂,下了山,一个长大麻风的人来求见耶稣,并说＂主若肯,     

耶稣,有你一句话!

经文：《马太福音》8章5节至13节《马太福音》8章5节至13节说的是耶稣治好百夫长的仆人。故事的开始是说耶稣来到迦百农,那里有位百夫长,请求耶稣为他的一位仆人治病。按照圣经记载,在这之先,耶稣作了＂登山宝训＂,下了山,一个长大麻风的人来求见耶稣,并说＂主若肯,     

基督徒要保持“十心”

经文:箴4:23 你要保守你心,胜过保守一切,因为一生的果效,是由心发出(箴4:23)。心是一切行动的源头,有什么 样的心就会有什么样的行。心灵是根系,行为是果实,有了健壮的根系,才会结出丰硕的成果。所以基 督徒保守自己的心很重要。只有自己的心扎根于基督里,才能活出基督,是光是盐,才能照亮温暖别人,让自 己及周围的人生活得有滋有味,如同淡如白水的汤中加入了盐巴。我们基督徒在日常生活中要保持十心。     

为主负轭,尽心竭力

＂我心里柔和谦卑,你们当负我的轭,学我的样式,这样,你们心里就必得享安息。＂经文：太11：28-30;腓4：1-3为主负轭应该认真务实,为主负轭务要低肩背重,为主负轭必须尽心竭力。负轭,原是牛耕地、犁田或拉车等的劳作,是辛勤艰苦的。但圣经说,参与教会侍奉的工人就是像牛一样为主负轭,这个比方非常恰当,因为我们这些服侍主的仆人就是要具备牛一般的精神,为主吃苦耐劳、谦卑顺服、甘愿侍奉、尽心竭力。以下我们要从三个方面来彼此勉励。     

作耶和华神的好仆人

经文:太25:14-30 这段经文是主特别对门徒所讲的,对于我们这些事奉神的人来讲,这段经文尤为重要。三个关键词第一个词是“才干”。它的希腊原文含义是指“能力”。在这段经文中我想它突出的是一个人事奉神的能力、对事奉机会的把握能力,可以笼统地概括为我们所说的恩赐。从经文中我们可以发现,每个人都有他的才干,才干只有大小之分,而无“有无”之     

受洗归主的意义

受洗是一种宣信,我们今天要公开举行洗礼,在神和人面前,作一种信仰宣信。在神前是一种决志和委身。好像是我们与基督之间的一种婚姻关系被公开——     

趣说圣经中的“鸡”

公元2017年为丁酉年,亦称鸡年。在圣经中,有关“鸡”的内容较少,但经文中提到的如公鸡、母鸡、小鸡、鸡蛋等仍有重要喻义。     

得胜的尼希米

经文：尼1：1-11,4：1—2 3,6：15—16尼希米元＂祭司＂之位,又非＂光知＂之职,但同样上帝藉他成就了大事!一个普通人要跻身王宫成为王之亲信固然不易,但欲抽身引退于既得之高官厚禄,成为上帝仆人则更难!     

一元钱的奉献……

去年6月下旬的一天,我正在查阅圣经经文,上小学二年级的儿子鹏程放学后,俯在我耳边悄悄地说:爸爸,我和您商量个事儿.我抬起头微笑地说:乖儿子,什么事啊7儿子认真地说:您得先说同不同意.我看着他.说吧,只要是有益处的事.儿子高兴地说:你替我为主奉献一元钱,好吗?     

Tie my hands, tie my eyes

Previous studies have demonstrated that motor abilities allow us not only to execute our own actions and to predict their consequences, but also to predict others' actions and their consequences. But just how deeply are motor abilities implicated in action observation? If an observer is prevented from acting while witnessing others' actions, will this impact on their making sense of others' behavior? We recorded proactive eye movements while participants observed an actor grasping objects. The participants' hands were either freely resting on the table or tied behind their back. Proactivity of gaze behavior was dramatically impaired when participants observed others' actions with their hands tied. Since we don't literally perceive actions with our hands, the effect may be explained by the hypothesis that effective observation of action depends not only on motor abilities but on being in a position to exercise them. This suggests, for the first time, that actions are observed best when we are actually in the position to perform them.     

迷途知返

我那中西合璧的三层小楼主体工程刚显出一点眉目,九九重阳节这天,二三十人在脚手架上攀援,他们都十分认真地工作着,可是山涧骤然刮过来一阵强     

For my eyes only: gaze control, enmeshment, and relationship quality

Perceived closeness that preserves the distinctness of each partner enhances intimate relationship quality, whereas pseudocloseness or enmeshment--reflecting an inability to distinguish one's own thoughts and emotions from a partner's--may have more negative outcomes (R. J. Green & P. D. Werner, 1996). Two studies investigated whether a dispositional inability to differentiate self from other is manifested at the attentional level as reduced capacity to inhibit following the gaze of another (A. Frischen, A. P. Bayliss, & S. P. Tipper, 2007). Among healthy elderly spouses in Study 1, superior gaze control predicted superior sociocognitive functioning, and those with poorer gaze control abilities were perceived by the partner as constricting the perceiving partner's autonomy, which in turn predicted lower relationship satisfaction among the latter. Moreover, these links were mediated by enmeshment, as indicated by the percentage of "we"-focused versus "I"- or partner-focused thoughts and emotions in the partners' independent accounts of the same relationship events. Extending these findings in a sample of Parkinson's disease patients and their spouses, Study 2 revealed a biphasic effect of self-other differentiation on relationship dynamics: In the early stages of the disease, increased couple focus promoted superior relationship quality, whereas lack of self-other differentiation predicted poorer relationship quality later. Thus, dispositional variations in fundamental social-perceptual processes predict both close relationship dynamics and long-term relationship quality.     

My heart is on my tongue: the untranslated self in a translated world

Abstract: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was the first body to provide translation in all the languages of the country, setting people free from groping around with distorted tongues, unable to see, talk or hear one another … After three centuries of silence South Africans could daily hear the black voice talking and being translated; for the first time white South Africans could hear and listen. Through translation we could access our deepest emotions and feelings. But among the two thousand testimonies there were some that were incomprehensible, that confirmed every racial stereotype built up over many years of apartheid. What does one do with these ‘untranslatable’ narratives? This paper looks at one TRC testimony and one Bushmen story, both of them translated from indigenous languages and both posing enormous moral dilemmas. Read in a particular way, the Bushmen story seems to say that they had no sense of responsibility. I will look at the story in its cultural context as revealed through translation to see if another conclusion is possible. In the TRC testimony, I and two colleagues looked at the slippages between the original Xhosa testimony and the interpreted version and explore the consequences thereof. I want to make the point that a narrative can be experienced as discriminatory and ethically problematic when read through a particular, in this case a western, perspective. But the moment there is an attempt to interpret the narrative via its embeddedness in an indigenous worldview, it becomes breathtakingly ethical, fair and logical.     

我和我家必定事奉耶和华——怀念父亲归天13周年

父亲出生于庐山脚下一个名叫星子的小县城的基督徒家庭,祖上三代信主,据说太公是秀才,可否算书香门第?他自幼勤奋好学,圣经会背,赞美诗会唱,古书、医书等也读了很多,还下了一番功夫练软笔书法,长大以后,远近小有名气。感谢神,他把这些恩赐都用在主的事工上。     

Out of your hand's reach, out of my eyes' reach

When witnessing another's action, people recruit the same motor resources that enable them to efficiently perform that action, thus gazing at its target well before the agent's hand. But just to what extent does this recruitment help people in grabbing another's action target? If the latter seems to be out of the agent's reach, will this impact on people's gaze behaviour? We recorded proactive eye movements while participants witnessed someone else trying to reach for and grasp objects located either within or outside his reach. Proactivity of gaze was impaired when the targets were just out of the agent's reach. This effect is likely to be due to an interpersonal bodily space representation that allows one to map another's reaching space, thus prompting proactive eye movements towards the target just in case the agent is in the position to act upon it.     

Look into my eyes: gaze direction and person memory

The current research considered the effects of gaze direction on a fundamental aspect of social cogition: person memory. It was anticipated that a person's direction of gaze (i.e., direct or averted) would impact his or her subsequent memorability, such that recognition would be enhanced for targets previously displaying direct gaze. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with faces displaying either direct or averted gaze in a person-classification (i.e., conceptual) task. Then, in a surprise memory test, they were required to report whether a presented face had been seen before. As expected, a recognition advantage was observed for targets displaying direct gaze during the initial classification task. This finding was replicated and extended in a second experiment in which participants initially reported the spatial location (i.e., perceptual task) of each face. We consider the implications of these findings for basic aspects of social-cognitive functioning and person perception.