“Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations…” (Lk 24:45-47) In Luke 24, […]
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…” – Ecclesiastes 3:1 A recurring theme in Ecclesiastes is the idea of a time to hold on and a time to let go. “…a time to […]
Some things are worth preserving, not just for sentimental reasons but for their lasting values. We all like to receive wisdom that will stand the test of time. And we desire to pass such wisdom on. What can you pass […]
Jesus trained his disciples to take over from him before he departed to heaven. They were to carry on the work of the gospel to the “end of the earth” (Acts 1:8), teaching others to do the same (Matthew 28:20). […]
How Christians handle earthly resources or “unrighteous wealth or money” (Luke 16:9, 11, 13) matters to God. For “one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much” (v10). To be faithful, in this context, is to […]
1 Corinthians 12 uses the metaphor of a body to show how every Christian is an essential part of the church. All Christians in the church make up the body of Christ (vs 27). Just as Christ cannot be divided […]
Ephesians 5:15-16 sum up the call for Christians to live wisely in the world. To be wise is “to discern what is pleasing to the Lord,” sounded out earlier in verse 9. Nothing pleases the Lord more than that we […]
Christians are to put away “anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk” and “not lie” to one another. Such behaviors are due in part to ethnic or racial (“Greek and Jew”), religious (“circumcised and uncircumcised”), cultural (“barbarian, Scythian”) and economic […]
