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Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit
What does “obedience of faith” (Romans 1:5) mean?
Reflection on Psalm 106 (Week 31, 2026)
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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 …
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Yesterday I was discussing Isaiah 44 with someone, going over the questions I had written for Week 18 (2023). He had latched onto this part, “This is what the Lord says—he who made you, who formed you in the womb” (Isaiah 44:2) and drew out the implication that as the One who created Jacob/Israel, God …
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Last week I wrote a devotion on 2 and 3 John and in the reflection at the end, I entitled it “The battle for truth”. Little did I know that that was also when the fourth Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) met, from 17-21 April 2023, bringing together 1,302 delegates from 52 countries, including 315 …
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He could hardly breathe as the emotions, long suppressed, took over his mind and body. After what seemed like an eternity, while his mind remained blank, he found himself staring out the window, the letter in his hand, crushed. The servants had merely told him that someone had come bearing a letter from Paul. Of …
(I woke up this morning and for some reason Elijah was on my mind. This was the result.) It is very interesting that the name of Elijah was raised in the prophecies leading up to the birth of Jesus. Zechariah was told by an angel that his wife will bear him a son and he …
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A few days ago someone shared that she is unable to conduct her business without resorting to bribery, something she knows is wrong. The teaching in church makes her uncomfortable as this makes feel her unworthy. She at times stay away from church but returns because she finds comfort there, although she feels “thick-skinned”, hypocritical, …
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Yesterday in church we discussed the letter to Philadelphia in Revelation and there the same phrase was used as in the letter to Sardis: “I know your deeds”. I had pointed out in a previous discussion that there was no elaboration, no further details. The sense of the assertion is that nothing more needs to …
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Luke 9:21-27 I had a session yesterday discussing this passage (2022 Week 34). It was revealing, as I needed to clarify my view that as Jesus told his disciples about the realities of his mission and the path he must walk (v22), he then went on to say that whoever wants to be his disciple …
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