Author Archives: Ronnie Lim

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”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/31/opportunities-to-shine Jesus’s teaching on the light and salt of the world in Matthew 5:13-16 should be familiar to most of us. It is basically that salt should remain salty because if salt loses its saltiness, it will be thrown away and trampled on the ground as an illustration that we need to maintain our saltinessContinue reading “Light of the world”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/30/hope-in-god-2 It is true that in the contemporary context, we want things instantly. Even in television, when Netflix releases a series, it is at one go with 12 episodes or more. There are still TV programmes that are released one episode a week but Netflix has bucked that trend. So if you have 12 episodesContinue reading “The LORD is my portion”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/28/for-the-sake-of-the-gospel-2 Dr Nelson Bell, a surgeon whose first job was in the Love & Mercy Hospital, Jiangsu – the only hospital then in a city of at least 2 million. He was born in 1894, so the year he started in Jiangsu was around 1916 and he stayed on for another 24 years to justContinue reading “Ruth Bell Graham”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/27/sister-to-brother We all know that in the church and ministry, we are all family with one another – brothers and sisters in Christ whether older or younger men or women. In 1 Timothy 5:1-2, Timothy exhorts us to treat the older men as our father, older women as our mother, younger men and women asContinue reading “Brothers and Sisters in Christ”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/26/walk-on There is this belief that preachers always hold on to when they preach, that is, the Word of God will not return void, that it will achieve its purpose. It is actually Scripture from Isaiah 55:11, an actual Word from the LORD as proclaimed by the prophet Isaiah speaking on behalf of God. GodContinue reading “Word of God will not return void”