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Reflection on Mark 7 (Week 15, 2026)
Reflection on 1 Thessalonians 2 (Week 13, 2026)
Hosea 13-14: Choose love, choose hope, choose wisely
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(I was to preach on Galatians 2 last week and thought it would be a good idea to spend my quiet time on the text and that was why the devotion for Week 43 was on Galatians 1 and 2. Here is the text of my sermon. It is about 6 pages long, so be …
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After reading through what I wrote in the previous reflection, another thought came to me. In a recent discussion (this time in a teaching session with a number of people), someone asked “how can we love the unlovable?” Having spent some time on 1 John 4, I responded saying that we should go back to …
Continue reading “Outcomes (again)”
“God is not fixated on outcomes,” I told him in a sudden burst of inspiration. He was sharing with me about some issues/disagreements he has with others in his church and I said that he cannot run away from the fact that none of us are indispensable and none of us are irrelevant when it …
For me, there is something mysterious about the love between a man and a woman married to each other and I have learned not to judge their interactions because I don’t know or understand the bonds that are created over the time spent together. After all the physical, emotional, sexual elements that may have played …
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I have always looked at Luke 7:36-50, the story of the prostitute who gate-crashed a dinner party, from the angle of how sensitive Jesus was towards the woman, giving her the space and privacy to deal with her emotions. This time I saw that the rest at the dinner party were also major characters in …
Continue reading “Judging and being judged: Simon the Pharisee”
By Russell Moore (https://www.russellmoore.com/2019/08/15/when-someone-you-admire-abandons-the-faith/) Someone shared with me this article after reading what I wrote in my reflection “Winning the argument and losing the love”. I thought it is worthwhile sharing. I’m reproducing it here so you can see whether it is worth your time but do use the link above to read and explore …
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The young man reconnected with a young woman several months ago. His own growth as a person in the past year opened his eyes to appreciate her in new light. Where previously he had looked at women physically he now appreciated her maturity, her responsible nature and her “smarts”, and feelings developed. As they are …
Continue reading “Speaking the truth in love”
Yesterday the preacher made the point that a defective Gospel produces defective Christians (well, these are my words as I cannot remember the actual words he chose but this was his intended point). And he did so by asking the congregation whether the Gospel is to be believed or obeyed. To bring home his point …
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Someone said to the group, “I think we should not be using this song in worship because I have issues with the way the song describes Jesus. But more importantly we should not use it among young people because they will not have the theological grounding to discern.” Another replied, “Read what this person wrote …
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The past couple of weeks were like a reunion dinner, meeting with people from my FES past. I had lunch with a past secretary of PKV, the Varsity Christian Fellowship group in Universiti Malaya. She is married to her president of the fellowship in her time and they are both leaders in their church. I …
Continue reading “Memories or vision?”