Closer Day By Day

‘Heavy’ is the feeling in my heart whenever I read the book of Ecclesiastes. Especially the opening words of David, ‘Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.’ makes me ask myself is life really that gloomy? But after sometime and after pondering over the facts written in this book, I began to see a light in [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 2 I want to start off by admitting that I think I am an easily contented person (although my wife says I am choosy about the food I eat).  I do not hold great ambitions to get ahead in life and although I see some of my classmates and peers acheiving great [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 1 “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1: 2(b) Alas, we’ve now come back to one of the books of wisdom, written by king Solomon. The book that talks about life and its vanities. And today, we shall look at the first chapter of this book, and I’ll be splitting it [...]

Bible Passage:  James 5 Our bible reading theme this year surrounds one very important question that all of us should self-check our understanding on – What does Christianity mean to you? In another words, what does your faith / belief mean to you? These recent 2 weeks, we have had encouraging and thought provoking sharing [...]

Bible Passage:  James 4 Consider yourself! Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? (James 4:1) Today’s passage began with a question for us to examine ourselves. What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? What do you think [...]

Recently, I’ve been kind of addicted to PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies; playing it on my PC as well as *ALL* my portable devices. There’s just something about those cute, bouncing, seed slugging plants and try-to-be-scary-but-not-scary-at all zombies with abysmal spelling abilities that’s wonderfully effective for a quick 5 minutes de-stress session or a longer challenge [...]

The epistle of James is one of my favorite among all the epistles in the New Testament. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like the rest of the other epistles. It is only that this epistle left a very deep impression in me when I first read it at the age of 15, because I [...]

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 [...]