Closer Day By Day

What a year it has been!  And today is the last day of the year 2010 and we are on our final chapter of our 2010 Bible Reading plan.  Some of us have read every chapter…  Some have missed a few… But the important thing is that we have been keeping the Word of God [...]

Bible Passage:  1 Thessalonians 4 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you ought to walk and to please God, for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus… 1 Thessalonians 4: 1-2 Maintaining Holiness For a good chunk [...]

Bible Passage:  1 Thessalonians 3 We have come to the time of year where we typically reflect on the year that is about to pass and start to think about what we want to achieve in the new year. For some of us, it has been a much better year than the last.  For some, [...]

Firstly I want to thank aquillofGod for giving us an intro to the epistle to the Thessalonians in yesterday’s blog. And the seemingly similar situations True Jesus Church members in Singapore are facing with the situations that the Thessalonians had to face then. In today’s chapter, I see 3 groups of people that can give [...]

Just the day before yesterday, people were celebrating the so-called birth of our Saviour; even those who are not even Christians. Now, normally, I wouldn’t think twice about this (being so used to automatically filtering out anything related to Christmas) but because of a few things I saw and heard, I started to consider the [...]

Bible Passage:  3 John 3 John is the shortest book in the Bible and with only one chapter. Elder John wrote this letter to this person called Gaius. In this letter, he praises Gaius and Demetrius but warns of Diotrephes. What are Elder John’s praises to these good Christians? Gaius He walks in the truth [...]

Everytime I read Paul’s letter to Philemon I am reminded of the Onesimus Principle. What is the Onesimus Principle? Well, let me start off by asking if you know who Onesimus was? Er… I guess we should backtrack first and ask who was this Philemon that Paul was writing to? Philemon was most probably a [...]

Bible Passage:  Ruth 4 The finale to the short book of Ruth. And inspired by biblereadingcompanion’s comment at the beginning of his post, I’ll keep mine short too (I hope..). When I first read this chapter, one main point came to my mind, and it brings me back to my  student theological lessons. We read [...]

Bible Passage:  Ruth 3 Today’s sharing will be short and sweet.  Basically it is all about individuals acting on behalf of others with no obligation to do so. Chapter 3 of Ruth starts off with an opportunity that Naomi saw and seized.  She found out that Boaz was a kinsman and now sought to ‘care’ [...]

Bible Passage:  Ruth 1-2 How about a little Bible trivia? Who was King David’s great grandmother? Was she a Jew? Of all the names that were recorded in the genealogy of Jesus Christ, how many were women? Can you name them? Did you know that it was not customary, in fact uncommon, for Jews to [...]