https://odb.org/2025/01/09/better-than-life-2 Psalm 63 NIV – 1 You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. 2 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 3 Because your loveContinue reading “Your love is better than life”
Category Archives: Christian character
Fear of the unknown
https://odb.org/2025/01/03/fear-of-the-unknown-2 John 16 – 33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” As we enter 2025, some of us may feel some apprehension of what lies ahead. Like these past few years, theContinue reading “Fear of the unknown”
Happy New Year 2025 – our Jesus story
https://odb.org/2025/01/01/the-jesus-story As 2025 arrives and the train of time rolls on forth, remember that time waits for no man, but Jesus Christ is our Lord and Saviour. Christ came to give us the gift of salvation by dying on the cross for our sins. It is by the grace of God that we are saved.Continue reading “Happy New Year 2025 – our Jesus story”
Forgiveness and grace
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”
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”
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”
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”
For I am with you, says the LORD
https://odb.org/2024/12/09/encouragement-in-a-box As we are not creatures of the water, passing through deep waters is always risky and to some even a dangerous endeavour. It is thus a good picture of what could lie ahead in life. We may be the cautious kind and only walk on dry land and avoid rivers or sea, but life,Continue reading “For I am with you, says the LORD”
God knows me
https://odb.org/2024/12/03/god-knows-me Psalm 139: 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you knowg me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue, you,Continue reading “God knows me”
Barnabas the encourager
https://www.odb.org/2024/12/02/people-of-encouragement In the bible, the most well-known of believers who encouraged is Barnabas. You can read about him in Acts 4, and in Acts 9, you will see that it was Barnabas who brought Paul to see the Apostles and advocated Paul to them. The rest is history as the church was greatly impacted withContinue reading “Barnabas the encourager”
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