Knowledge puffs up while love builds up is a well known Bible phrase from I Cor 8:1. Due to this, I explicitly taught my children that the goal of reading the Bible is not to gain knowledge. Why did I do that? We have all been to school and have a tendency to learn knowledge as schools test that. We might find trivia as that could be cool. However, the Bible is a book to help us know God. What …
How should we understand Jesus words that no one is good: 18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. Someone said to Jesus a simple phrase “Good Teacher”, and Jesus grabbed a chance to talk about holiness. In the Christian community and even in the atheist Chinese I meet, I find some people I would naturally call good. To say we have no goodness denies the image of God in each person. I could never have …
What can we do with pressure in our life before God? Jesus said very clearly that we do not need to worry as he loves us. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet …
Revelations and the main thing are on the table today. First, I should here review. The main thing is all that Jesus did on the cross for us to save us from our sins, and he saved us utterly. But how do revelations relate to what Jesus has done? That would be what we’re talking about now. What Jesus did on the cross opened a door for us to be friends with God, to be his children, to be his …
