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Bible Passage: 1 John 5 My first write up as a bible blog writer was on 2 John. That was nearly a year ago..I wrote about how we should love the people of the world who yet to hear the gospel and are not saved. God’s love motivates us to share with them the good [...]

Bible Passage:  1 John 4 Elder John is truly the Apostle of love.  In today’s chapter, he once again returned to the subject of love and revisits the theme that we read about yesterday.  I will try to be brief today but I do encourage you to take your time to read the passage carefully [...]

Bible Passage:  1 John 3 The theme for this book is the ‘Love of God for Man’.  And we see repeatedly the message of love in 1 John (someone told me that there are around 50 references to the word ‘love’ just in 5 chapters of 1 John alone!).  And not only do we read [...]

Bible Passage:  1 John 2 Today’s reading brims with so many precious gems that I run the risk of understating all the good teachings with just a few words. Nevertheless, as we have read from elder John’s message to the brethren, every verse can apply to us in some way or the other. What makes [...]

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Bible Passage:  Jonah 4 I recall a testimony that a brother shared. He put on what were his best clothes, was in good spirits, and left his home for church service. He had walked no less than 5 minutes when a sudden change in weather brought a mini storm. “It was totally out of the [...]

Bible Passage: Jonah 3 After a less than luxurious stay in Hotel Fish Guts for a wonderful 3 days and 3 nights, Jonah had taken the express check-out (via regurgitation). He had also heeded the words of God and headed on down to the mega-city that is Nineveh to warn the people of their impending [...]

Bible Passage: Jonah 2 Today we read about the world renoun story! Jonah was praying in the fish’s belly! It is an incredible story. Even trying to think how it really was is difficult. But I have no doubt this incredible story truly happened because it is in the Bible, and Jesus testified to it. [...]

Today we are reading another Minor Prophet book, the Book of Jonah. To some people, both Christians and non-Christians, the accounts in this book seemed very “fairy-tale”, especially when it comes to the part where Jonah was being swallowed by a big fish (sometimes mistaken as a whale). But this Jonah son of Amittai was [...]