https://odb.org/2024/08/19/forest-darkroom We know that as believers, we are not immune to the rigours and rhythm of life. At best, we could flow along and make the best of what life throws at us. Sometimes, certain events are too hard to bear, and we falter. We get distracted. We get disheartened and discouraged. Some even fallContinue reading “The LORD, my refuge”
Category Archives: Living Sacrifice
Doing good for Jesus
https://odb.org/2024/08/09/love-in-action-4 Hebrews 13:15-16 (NIV): 15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices, God is pleased. I think it is a good idea to linkContinue reading “Doing good for Jesus”
Daniel’s life of integrity
https://odb.org/2024/08/01/visible-traces-of-jesus Daniel 6:1-10 demonstrates the integrity of Daniel that despite serving the Babylonian emperors for seventy years, there was no trace of any anamolies, questionable practices, or corruption. He was clean throughout those times even though he was an exile from Judah. He treated his place of captivity like his homeland, although I am sureContinue reading “Daniel’s life of integrity”
Never will I leave you
https://odb.org/2024/07/25/really-live I learned the illuminating truth about God’s healing in the first few years of my Christian life when I read through page by page an autobiography by Joni Eareckson. That was about 40 years ago. The truth is that God doesn’t heal everyone all the time. The fact that He heals is by itselfContinue reading “Never will I leave you”
Cleansed by the blood of Christ
https://odb.org/2024/06/03/cleansed-by-christ The picture of a water filter turning murky water into crystal clear clean water is, to me, a perfect picture of how the blood of the Lamb cleanses us from sin to righteousness in God. Through Christ, we are presented blameless and unblemished before God. It is by the grace of God and not throughContinue reading “Cleansed by the blood of Christ”
The devourer
https://odb.org/2024/05/27/when-its-time We need to recognise and be aware that besides our own fleshy and selfish desires, there is someone else out there encouraging us not to follow God on the narrow path to righteousness. He tempts and seduces us to take the more common path favoured by most people. The path of least resistance. ForContinue reading “The devourer”
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”
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”
Sheep and goats
https://odb.org/2024/03/25/love-god-by-loving-others Matthew 25:31-40 is in a way scary as there will come a time when our Lord Jesus Christ will separate us into sheep and goats. Below is a deeper analysis of this topic, which may be contentious to some. https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/christ-the-king/commentary-on-matthew-2531-46-7 I tend to agree that as Jesus spoke about having helped or being kindContinue reading “Sheep and goats”
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