Author Archives: Ronnie Lim

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/11/the-source A fundamental teaching that Jesus introduced which is logical to us now but considered radical at that time was the question of what defiles us. The Jews have the concept of not eating certain food as these are considered unclean. Till today, religious Jews only eat Kosher food and have separate kitchens for diaryContinue reading “What Defiles Us?”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/10/legacy-of-friends Even if we are living in an isolated place deep in the jungle away from civilisation, we will in most likelihood still have a friend in the form of a pet cat or dog. But if there are nomadic or jungle living people near us like the Orang Asal, they will likely then beContinue reading “Friends”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/09/wise-or-unwise When I first started out as a believer we had this issue of whether we should listen to secular music. Not just pop music but any genre. Of course as a musician, I didn’t quite take that to heart but neither did I get seriously into pop or other music. Over the years IContinue reading “Wise or Not”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/08/loving-our-neighbors It is interesting to note that as we dwell deeper into the Word, we learn the rationale and background as to why certain instructions or commandments were instituted. For example, love your neighbour. It was meant to instill unity in the community so that there is harmony between the people who were closely knittedContinue reading “Love Your Neighbour”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/07/thankful-for-monday I used to dread Mondays. After the spiritual high of a Sunday worship service, it’s back to the grind on a Monday. Or after a weekend of a short holiday somewhere, we are back to face reality on Monday. Mondays bring us back to earth so to speak, from our weekend daydreams to theContinue reading “Monday Blues”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/06/hope-from-gehenna Topheth or the Valley of Hinnom in Jeremiah 7:30-34 was described as “Gehenna” in Greek by Jesus and used by Him to compare hell in Matthew 5. It is a place of atrocities not committed by the Canaanites but by Israelites themselves, a place where they sacrificed even children and burned incense to idols,Continue reading “Gehenna”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/04/he-redeems-our-pain The story of Naomi in the book of Ruth in the Old Testament is a story of how the LORD God redeemed an Israelite woman living in a foreign land (they reloacted to Moab when severe famine hit Judea) after her husband died and her two sons who married Moabite women also died. FromContinue reading “The LORD Our Redeemer”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/03/hearing-christ-not-chaos John 10:1-10, 27 are famous teachings of Christ that centred on Christ being the shepherd and we as believers His sheep. The main thrust of the teaching is that we as sheep recognise and know the voice of Christ as our shepherd. This illustration is taken from real life as real sheep in generalContinue reading “The Sheep Knows the Voice of the Shepherd”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/02/grasping-gods-word One of the fundamental things we learn as a believer in Christ is to read the Word of God, the Bible. There are direct teachings there as in the Old Testament law, the actual teachings of Christ in the Gospel as well as instructions and exhortations of Paul and the other Apostles contained inContinue reading “The Law of God”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/11/01/better-together The book of the Acts of the Apostles written by Luke who also wrote the Gospel according to Luke, documents the journey of the early church and how its people were empowered by the power of the Holy Spirit and spread the message of Christ in Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria and to theContinue reading “Helping each other”