https://odb.org/2024/12/27/acts-of-grace Blessed and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, everyone! Some of us may be clearing our annual leave and are still enjoying the festivities with friends and family the year-end holiday season. While others may be on vacation somewhere cold in the northern hemisphere – China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, or Europe. As forContinue reading “Forgiveness and grace”
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Christmas Eve
https://odb.org/2024/12/24/light-and-glory What do most of us do on Christmas Eve? Have a nice family dinner? Throw a party? Have family and friends come over for food and drinks? The amazing thing is that even non-Christians find a reason to, in a way, celebrate Christmas, especially on Christmas Eve. Christmas is so well-known that shopping mallsContinue reading “Christmas Eve”
Tangible love
https://odb.org/2024/12/22/tangible-love-2 1 John 4 NIV – 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, can not love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he hasContinue reading “Tangible love”
The truth never changes
https://odb.org/2024/12/20/the-truth-never-changes Isaiah 40:8 NIV – The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” As Christians, we believe that the Word of God, that is, Scripture, is the infallible truth. Nothing in the bible is untrue. So, for example, the existence of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or even MosesContinue reading “The truth never changes”
God saw that it was good
https://odb.org/2024/12/19/gods-view-of-us Genesis 1:9-10 – 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. It is superb and excellent thatContinue reading “God saw that it was good”
Listen to Him
https://odb.org/2024/12/18/who-we-listen-to Deuteronomy 18:18 NIV – I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. The above words were spoken by the LORD to Moses when the Israelites were gathered at Mount SinaiContinue reading “Listen to Him”
Joseph, the husband of Mary
https://odb.org/2024/12/17/the-rescue-2 God’s plan in saving the world was to send His only son to the world that whoever believed in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). Yet His son can not miraculously appear out of thin air. Thus, God chose Mary, who was already betrothed to Joseph, a descendant of theContinue reading “Joseph, the husband of Mary”
Faith in the family
https://odb.org/2024/12/15/just-like-grandma As much as faith is personal, as parents, we want our children to profess the same faith as us. Just because we know the Lord, it doesn’t mean our children and their children will likewise know God. Faith in God is personal to the holder in the sense that we need to personally believeContinue reading “Faith in the family”
No room
https://odb.org/2024/12/12/guest-room An interesting fact from today’s ODB is that although we may have grown up thinking Jesus was born in an animal stable, it is actually a guest house but at the animals’ side of the guest house. This is because most translations of the bible translated the Greek word katalyma as inn when itContinue reading “No room”
Call upon the Father
https://odb.org/2024/12/11/god-will-answer The work and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross has enabled us as believers to call upon Father God in prayer, and He will listen to us. You may see that in the Psalms, in various prophesies in the Bible, including Jeremiah 29:12. As His children grafted into the family through the crucifixionContinue reading “Call upon the Father”
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