12 Days of Christmas

Want Jesus

When you want heaven, you want an escape from hell and pain.

When you want Jesus, you want everything, all at once. 

That's why some are willing to pay everything else for it. 

Wanting Jesus, is wanting more. It is being unsatisfied with everything else. It's a smarter choice. When you ask for Jesus, you dare to ask for the most precious thing in the whole universe. And today God is gracious to give Him to you at His expense. I think it is a good deal. I think you should take it!

Random Thought

God works through people, not institutions or mission statements.

Some Happiness for Mathematicians/Physicists/Computer Scientists

These ones made me laugh. Enjoy!

source: http://xkcd.com/824/

Random Thought

Humility is the thing that frees you to look straight into the eyes of the person in front of you

Borderline Heritical

If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ

- Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Why so serious?

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes

- C. S. Lewis

Journal Entry

Journal Entry: Nov 12, 2010

Faith in fortune cookies continues to grow... Today mine read, "One day you will be an accomplished writer". There is something about those cookies... either someone is closely watching me and trying to communicate a message, or the universe is just in dire need of me. Oh the weight of being so gifted! I guess people like me can only dream of having a simple normal life. 

Random Thought

Some people look at the depressed and wonder what's wrong with them… You know, may be something is right with them and wrong with us. May be their souls got the real taste of this world, unadulterated by the attractive wrapping - and they did not like it. 


Considering how much joy we are created for, and what we have fallen to, depression seems to be just about the right response.

If - Rudyard Kipling

My Relationship with Theology

My relationship with theology is similar to the relationship a spoilt kid of a rich father has with money. He does not understand the importance of it. 

However, it is also true that some people have a relationship with theology similar to that the rich father of the spoilt kid has with his money, if he had to earn all of it. He gives it more importance that it deserves. 

Random Thought

A good leader is also always a good follower, because he is motivated not by a desire to lead, but by a desire to be somewhere.

Of Probabilities, Information, Intelligence and Faith

Once, a normal unbiased die was rolled inside an box and so nobody could tell what number was rolled. 

One person was told to give the probability that the number 6 was rolled. The person was intelligent. So he calculated correctly. He said the probability that 6 was rolled is 1/6. That is also the same probability that 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, were rolled. 

The die was not rolled again. Nothing about the experiment was changed. 

Another person was asked the same question... "What is the probability that the number 6 was rolled?" However, this person was given some more information. He was told that an even number was rolled. Since this person was also intelligent, he concluded correctly that the probability of 6 being rolled was 1/3rd. 

The die was not rolled again. Nothing about the experiment was changed. 

A third person was asked the same question, but he was given more information. He was told, that the number rolled is even and is not less than or equal to 3. The third person also happened to be intelligent and so concluded, that the probability that 6 was rolled is 1/2. 

The above simple story was written from an experiment that my advisor Carl Sturtivant told me to make his point about the importance of information. 

Note that every intelligent man had faith that the information given to him was true. He trusted the source. 

I want to respect the beauty in the simplicity of the experiment by not writing explicit conclusions from it except allude to one. I recently read a quote I found agonizingly painful. Here - "Actually faith and intelligence are alternatives. You can't have both of them at the same time." This experiment probably brings out why I find that statement so painful. 

Phir Dekhiye

Love this song: 





I can't wait to be in heaven.