https://odb.org/2025/04/17/life-and-death-in-christ John 12:23–26 (NIV): 23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will loseContinue reading “Blessed Good Friday”
Category Archives: Christian living
Forget me not
https://odb.org/2025/04/18/to-be-remembered Luke 23:39–43 (NIV): 39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But thisContinue reading “Forget me not”
Anger
https://odb.org/2025/04/16/a-pastry-war Ecclesiastes 7:9 – Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. Married couples will bear witness that a small spark can quickly become a raging fire if both parties do not back down. That is why for a marriage to last, usually it is better forContinue reading “Anger”
Gospel resources
https://odb.org/2025/04/14/sharing-gospel-resources Romans 1:16 (NIV): 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. Recently, I had the privilege and honour to help out in a mission trip by a brother and his son toContinue reading “Gospel resources”
Helpful brethren
https://odb.org/2025/04/10/the-wright-sister Romans 16:1-4: I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. 2 I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, includingContinue reading “Helpful brethren”
Created for good works
https://odb.org/2025/03/14/were-made-to-do-good Ephesians 2:6–10 (NIV): 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you haveContinue reading “Created for good works”
Heirs in Christ
https://odb.org/2025/03/11/heirs-of-gods-salvation Galatians 4:1–7 (NIV): What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2 The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3 So also, when we were underage, we were in slaveryContinue reading “Heirs in Christ”
Name lists and the Book of Life
https://odb.org/2025/03/08/the-list-is-life Numbers 26:4 (NIV): 4 “Take a census of the men twenty years old or more, as the LORD commanded Moses.” These were the Israelites who came out of Egypt: We needed to wake up at 5.30 a.m. and travel out of the city early yesterday morning to come back to Seremban for the weekend andContinue reading “Name lists and the Book of Life”
Worry adds nothing
https://odb.org/2025/03/07/life-without-worry Matthew 6:25-34 NIV – 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow orContinue reading “Worry adds nothing”
Not easily angered or offended
https://odb.org/2025/03/06/not-easily-offended Proverbs 19:11 – Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs. I believe one of the toughest emotions for humans to control is anger and offence. This was on display for all the world to see when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently met President Donald Trump at the Oval Office, which endedContinue reading “Not easily angered or offended”
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