https://odb.org/2024/05/20/longing-for-the-past Sometimes, we like to reminisce and dwell in our past memories. I think not so much in our past successes but more to the nostalgic era where time was not moving as fast as the present. Times when we were younger and still discovering the world. Our early working days, feeling our way inContinue reading “The good old times”
Category Archives: Christian character
Better to be with Christ
https://odb.org/2024/05/17/a-change-of-venue I was down with a cold and a bad cough with fever the past few days and thus was not able to write. I am now recovering with antibiotics and some good cough mixture. 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 is a well-known passage from Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth. It speaks of him preferingContinue reading “Better to be with Christ”
Blessed Mother’s Day!
https://odb.org/2024/05/12/leaving-a-spiritual-legacy 2 Timothy 1:3-5 is well known for the exaltation and salutation given by Paul to his protégé Timothy’s grandmother, Lois, and his mother, Eunice, for Timothy’s faith. Paul recognised the roles played by mothers and grandmothers in the development of Timothy’s faith over the years. The legacy of their faith. Even though I didn’tContinue reading “Blessed Mother’s Day!”
Saved by grace
https://odb.org/2024/05/10/trying-to-save-ourselves A fundamental tenet of our Christian faith is that salvation is by grace, the grace of God through faith as a gift from God, not by works – as expounded by Paul in Ephesians 2:8-9. In verse 10, Paul continues that we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, whichContinue reading “Saved by grace”
Spiritual gifts
https://odb.org/2024/05/07/the-god-of-our-personality-and-gifts Romans 12 is the turning point in Paul’s writings in the book of Romans that targeted both Gentiles and Jews in Rome, as distinct from the Jews living in Jerusalem. Paul started by teaching on the salvation brought by Christ first to the Jews, then to the Gentiles. Of the Son of God already spokenContinue reading “Spiritual gifts”
Obedience and sacrifice
https://odb.org/2024/05/06/loving-obedience If you have been a believer for a while, you would have likely come across this principle being taught – obedience is better than sacrifice. A good example to illustrate this spiritual principle is the case of Saul when he offered the sacrifice to God without waiting for the prophet Samuel (who was theContinue reading “Obedience and sacrifice”
Prayer and God
https://odb.org/2024/05/03/prayer-matters I think the example of King Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20 proves that prayers do move the hand of God. The LORD may do something out of ordinary when we pray, with the supernatural penetrating into the natural which should not, in the ordinary scheme of things, be a common occurrence. The world isContinue reading “Prayer and God”
God is love
https://odb.org/2024/04/30/we-cant-out-love-god I think it’s a given that we can not out-love God as much as we can not outgive God. It is obviously so because He is the creator, the supreme being who existed before anything at the beginning and will be there at the end of time. He is all-knowing and omnipresent. On topContinue reading “God is love”
True peace
https://odb.org/2024/04/23/the-true-peacemaker Warring nations have been at it since time immemorial. Most of us, I would think, hope for an end to wars and sufferings, having heard of the pain and sufferings brought about by the two World Wars. Most of us are not old enough to have experienced WW2 in Malaya, the cruelty and theContinue reading “True peace”
The Valley of Berakah
https://odb.org/2024/04/19/the-valley-of-blessing-2 There will be times when we may face impossible situations like the people of Judah being confronted with invading armies much more powerful than them. Instead of requiring them to be like the brave Spartans of ancient history, God intervened and caused confusion between the invading armies that they fought with one another andContinue reading “The Valley of Berakah”
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