Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
— Philippians 4:5
In view of this semester’s theme, I decided from the beginning to have, among other things, more passion in outreach, principally, to consider others more important than myself (assigned ABC passage for this week is the two verses afterwards), to consider all things [...]
So the calling here that I’m going to talk about it going to be more of the long, general calling. It’s something that was on my heart this Sunday during offering time. As the bag was being passed around, I got (my) usual images, such as the bag being Christ holding out his nail pierced [...]
A sarcastically pedagogical Chinese proverb/childhood story, “掩耳盜鈴” (“Plugging One’s Ears While Stealing a Bell”. Reference site; Chinese version)
In ancient times, Fan’s family was destroyed by others. So a man went to Fan’s house and tried to steal something. He saw a big bell in the courtyard. The bell was so beautiful. He liked it very [...]
So I was dwelling in the House of the Lord, and I (mentally) stumbled across a good description of what it means for God to be “fair”.
Thought Experiment: The Two Math Students
The Situation
Imagine a night before a math class. Two students are faced with a dilemma: they both have not started the homework, and [...]
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ
-Philippians 3:20
So, because this ABC passage was chosen in such close proximity to the Bible Study about the passage from which it came, just to recap on what was said in Bible Study regarding “Citizenship”
Citizenship: Our Place in [...]
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
—Psalm 139:1–4
In the spirit of [...]
This is a post worth reading about the exclusivity of the Gospel. “You cannot serve two masters.” You cannot claim to believe what the gospel says (which includes its exclusivity) and also say that there are other ways to God, or being good, etc.
Note:
I do not want to come off as arrogant, but the author [...]
No, I’m not talking about I will worship, but the worship of the will.
The Fundamental Failure of Change via our Will
We make the conceptual mistake so many times that we can “beat” our bad temper or “overcome” our lust if we mutter the magic words or do the magic things. Some of us are more [...]
