Closer Day By Day

We now come to the climax of the Gospel of Matthew – the bitter anguish of betrayal and sufferings to the triumphant resurrection from the grave. Bible Passage:  Matthew 26-28 All these stories are familiar to us.  So are the teachings.  But what else do we see from here? First of all, I am touched [...]

It is again hard to read today’s passage without thinking about how Christ suffered for us and how He made himself lowly like a servant, just to bring Salvation to us. Bible Passage:  Isaiah 51-55 There is a lot to take away from this passage but we would just focus on the Suffering Servant – [...]

How do you feel when you read Job? What do you make of the words of Job and his friends? In the past, whenever I read the book Job, it was more of a cursory read.  I decided that Job was too much of a mystery and the ‘toing’ and ‘froing’ of the conversations between [...]

The Psalms we read today are all from David.  Indeed, the intimacy and depth of knowledge of God by David inspired him to pen down so many of these wonderful verses that many of them have been taken as lyrics of songs we sing today. Bible Passage:  Psalm 27-29 In reading today’s passage, I cannot [...]

Today we are studying a new book – Ruth. Bible Passage:  Ruth Of names and meanings The book of Ruth tells us of the story of a few people. In the order of appearance, we have: Elimelech – “my God is King” Naomi – “my delight/pleasant” (later, Mara – “bitter” Mahlon – “sick” Chilion – [...]

One of the Bible Study guides we used to do with the Upper Primary Class was “Joseph – the SuperHero of Faith”. In today’s passage, we get our first glimpse of who Joseph was and why was it that he was really a superhero of faith and how we can learn from him today. Bible [...]

Let’s continue in our look at the Epistle of the Corinthians today… Bible Passage: 1 Corinthians 3-4 1Co 3:1 – 4 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now [...]

Jesus continues His teachings after entering Jerusalem for the last time before His crucifixion in today’s passage. Bible Passage:  Matthew 23-25 Whenever I read Matthew 25, I am reminded about the kind of choices we make. What Choices Do You Make? When we read the parable of the 10 virgins – what choices are we [...]

Do you remember the question the Psalmist asked when we were reading Psalm 24 on Sunday? “Who is the King of Glory?” (Ps 24:8) My challenge to you today is when you read the Bible Passage (I know I know, it is a very long passage – it’s Isaiah!), find the answers given by the [...]

The picture that you see right now is both funny and sad. It’s a dust covered Bible (obviously left aside for quite some time – unread). And some wise guy decided to make a point. The sad part is that it is quite true for most of us.  We have our Bible, or Bibles.  But [...]