Closer Day By Day

In recent years, certain sectors of the east have seen a property boom. In particular, 2 new condominium projects in my neighbourhood have made newspaper headlines within a space of 6 months. If it’s anything to go by, the property market seems to be holding its own while other sectors are struggling to keep up. [...]

Another day, another reading of Leviticus, another 3 sets of teachings; it is marvellous to note how much we can gather from just each chapter of the Bible alone, isn’t it? Not forgetting that we doing a set of chapters each day, let’s try to glean what ever we can through the help of the [...]

Recently I was pondering over the question related to mixed alternatives. And I got to read of this in today’s reading in Leviticus 19:19. Though it is a fairly short portion, it got me thinking about what a preacher mentioned once, some time back. “You shall keep My statues. You shall not let your livestock [...]

During the month of June some years ago, the RE students were brought out for an excursion. It was part of a Bible Camp (or Bible Seminar as we know it today) programme which was meant to let the students have a bit of fun together, as well as to learn something that would enrich [...]

“Hear ye! Hear ye!” This is the health ministry’s latest memo to the general public in the face of the ever-growing number cases of Fungal Flu: Please remember that your cooperative measures are very much needed in these volatile times of an ensuing pandemic. We all wish to remain safe and sound so let’s all [...]

Last week saw the passing of certain great names in showbiz. Before we could believe our eyes and ears, the word was confirmed: Yes, they were gone, both MJ and Farah. This week, we look at the passing of 2 others. And in fact, these 2 were indeed the ones who were “gone too soon”. [...]

After managing to sit through the first 6 chapters of Leviticus, today we come to the chapters 7 – 9. While not treating this irreverently, I must say that reading Leviticus can really be D.R.Y. But in any case, kudos to us who have patiently read through the portion of the offerings, and thanks to [...]

Last week in our reading of Leviticus, we were introduced to 3 different kinds of offerings – burnt offering, cereal or grain offering and peace offering.  Today, we continue our look at another couple of offerings as we continue our journey through Leviticus. I understand that there was some problem in reading last week’s blog [...]

We now move onto the 3rd book of the Bible – Leviticus. Most of the things recorded in this book involves the Levites and hence the name of the book. The whole book records events that happened within a month of so and it was written roughly 5 months after the Israelites had left Mount [...]