https://odb.org/2024/07/25/really-live I learned the illuminating truth about God’s healing in the first few years of my Christian life when I read through page by page an autobiography by Joni Eareckson. That was about 40 years ago. The truth is that God doesn’t heal everyone all the time. The fact that He heals is by itselfContinue reading “Never will I leave you”
Author Archives: Ronnie Lim
God is our refuge
https://odb.org/2024/07/24/my-true-refuge If we have been with our spouse, say, for fifty years, from courting days until we grow old together like the Chinese say, from dark hair to grey hair, it may be really tough and difficult for us to carry on living if our spouse departs the earth before us. We would have beenContinue reading “God is our refuge”
Great rejoicing in heaven
https://odb.org/2024/07/23/time-to-party There is great rejoicing in heaven whenever a sinner repents and comes into faith in Christ Jesus. The parable of the prodigal son narrated by Jesus Himself in Luke 15:11-32 illustrates this very well. When the prodigal son returned after wasting away his inheritance in wild living, the father accepted him back wholeheartedly with muchContinue reading “Great rejoicing in heaven”
Good works for God
https://odb.org/2024/07/22/instruments-for-good Ephesians 2:4, 5, 8 to 10: But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it isContinue reading “Good works for God”
Single parenting
https://odb.org/2024/07/18/renewing-our-strength Single parenting is a more recent phenomenon, at least in our Malaysian context. Partly due to the rise in divorce rates as more women are gainfully employed. In fact, the ratio of women to men in universities and colleges now borders at 2 to 1. With better education, women may even have outnumbered men inContinue reading “Single parenting”
Age in ministry
https://odb.org/2024/07/17/from-age-to-age Although David was chosen as king at a young age when he was still a boy and the twelve disciples of Jesus were unmarried (except Peter) when they were called by Christ and were thus between 15-18, the bible has towers of faith who were much older. For example, Moses and his brother AaronContinue reading “Age in ministry”
The Word is not chained
https://odb.org/2024/07/16/news-worth-celebrating In 2 Timothy 2:9, Paul asserts that God’s Word is not chained. The context was, despite his imprisonment and being bound by chains like a criminal (but he was not!), God’s Word and the Gospel were still working in the midst of the people he was reaching out to. In fact, he endured allContinue reading “The Word is not chained”
Prayer and its power
https://odb.org/2024/07/15/devoted-to-prayer As believers, we are taught from the start to pray. In fact, the first thing we do when we come to faith is to say or pray the sinner’s prayer. We speak to the Father in Heaven and seek His forgiveness as we confess our sins and acknowledge that we are sinners. We thenContinue reading “Prayer and its power”
Unity in the body
https://odb.org/2024/07/14/better-together-3 Unity is probably one of those rather elusive concepts for the universal church of Christ as there is not a single body governing Christians except for the Roman Catholic church. Thus slightly less than half of the world’s Christian population are fragmentalised into various denominations and thousands and thousands of smaller independent churches. TheContinue reading “Unity in the body”
Heavenly blessings
https://odb.org/2024/07/11/heavenly-abundance One of the privileges we have as believers is that Jesus opens up the heavens for heavenly blessings to flow down on us and our family. We are children of God through Christ Jesus, grafted into the family of God through the blood of the Lamb, and thus, we are now part of theContinue reading “Heavenly blessings”
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