Priorities in a Christ-Centered Relationship
If you are a regular to Church, or perhaps you are part of a fellowship, you will often hear the message that we ought to put Christ first in our lives. And sometimes we ask that ourselves, how am I doing that in my life? And sometimes we think it is an impossible ideal. What […]
The Deceitful Heart
Last night I got a text message from a friend. He wanted to talk. Uh oh. When a guy text another guy he wanna talk, it is either very good news or not so good news. So we decided to chat over a pint of beer. As he shared about some of the struggles he […]
Personal Calling Statement
Last night, I went to a friend, also a missionary, session on Missions. One of the exercise is to develop a personal calling statement. Like Paul wrote in Ephesian 2:10: For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (NIV) Here’s mine […]
Unity in Christ: Beyond race and nationality
Before Jesus was taken up to Heaven, He told the disciples the following: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8) The verse is an introduction for the […]
Repost: Everyday Justification
Picked this up from Tim Chester’s blog. This is quite a good post on how to live everyday as a Christian. So that now that we are saved, so what? It becomes clear to me, that everyday living, there is a lot of angst, frustration and worries, which digging deeper are me trying to prove […]
Take the first step: asking for forgiveness
In my meditation upon the book of Habakkuk a few nights ago, the LORD has impressed me to go make peace with brothers and sisters who I have wronged them. With the things I experienced through in the past few days…I am reminded by what Jesus call us to do…love your God and love your […]
Let us not our souls to one another
Yesterday during worship, we sing Give Us Clean Hands by Chris Tomlin. Here is part of the lyric: We bow our hearts We bend our knees Oh Spirit come make us humble We turn our eyes From evil things Oh Lord we cast down our idols Oh give us clean hands and give us pure […]
What mature Christian do…
From Tim Keller‘s Counterfeit gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters Speaking about the characteristics of a mature Christian: Our hearts are like that. We think we’ve learned about grace, set our idols aside, and reached a place where we’re serving God not for what we’re going […]
Abraham, Issac and Jesus
Why had Isaac not been sacrificed? The sins of Abraham and his family were still there. How could a holy and just God overlook them? Well, a substitute was offered, a ram. But was it the ram’s blood that took away the debt of the firstborn? No. Many years later, in those mountains, another firstborn […]
Discernment: The Long Way
Challies.com gave a great illustration why we need to learn to discern for ourselves. He compare it with doing long division. Sometimes it is the long way that is the right way. No Google. No blogs. No opinions. Just between me, the Word and the Holy Spirit. Long way is never easy. As I always […]