July 2023

Where are you a citizen is a question that most people answer by saying USA or wherever they have political connections. That is not wrong.   However, as Christians we have a much more important citizenship. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, Just before this, the passage says “their minds are set of earthly things.” Are our minds set on earthly things and our earthly citizenship? I live in China and …

God gave us important work. When God decided to make us his children, he did not simply make us cupids with harps. He made us partners in reaching the world for Christ. God loves us. He doesn’t just give us a free pass to heaven as reward for believing him. He gave us meaning in life. We are not left to grow up, marry, have kids, get old and die. We can take part in the most important work in …

Here is a well known passage with 3 valuable things in God we can put to work: He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[a] with your God. The small ‘a’ next to humbly means many respected translators feel the word prudently is more correct, but humbly has most. Now, the text.  In the old testament era of so many needs to sacrifice and …

Who we are is quite a question. Why we are alive is yet another big issue, and here I am to speak to such issues here. Shockingly, none us knows ourselves best.  Jesus in passing said, And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. I do not know myself that well or even care to try to count my hair, but Jesus knows even this about me. His words are clear. He is the only one to …