We can always be happy, but we need to think more to make it real. I Thessalonians 5:16 says: Rejoice always That is an incredible and very short verse. If we look at Jesus, we can see many emotions like anger, sorrow, and anguish that I would never describe as rejoicing. He also had times where he visibly rejoiced like when the disciples came back after going out two by two. How can we say that Jesus was rejoicing always? …
We all know we should keep reading the Bible. It has the words of life. However, it gets old. We get bored. What can be done for us? And why are we reading it as we know the stories already and hear more in Church? Four things here: 1.Let’s not read the Bible like a text book or to know the trivia. We best go to see what God likes and does not. What makes him smile and what gets …
God made men and women so different. We were indeed made to complement each other. Amazingly, a difference shows up in the Covid-19 data. Men and women created different make the world go around because they are different. Now the data. 70% of the vaccinated people who report symptoms are woman. Are women getting sick more? Researchers found something different. Men have the same side effects and symptoms. However, men only report serious effects like fever. Women report all kinds …
Shortly before I left the US for China, a young adult in a church I was attending asked who wanted to meet before church to confess sins to each other. Notably James 5:16 says 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. I immediately joined. It was so good. Life giving. 6 people gathering weekly to confess our sins to each other. …
I love this verse that reminds me why meeting together should have deeper meaning. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Christians in China helped me realize what this verse said. They would parrot ‘don’t give up meeting together’ and in Chinese the connotation made it seem …
