Life in Christ or checking the box? This is a question that makes me think more. Let’s puzzle on this. I tend to live life as a series of projects like this blog I am writing for example. I am a classic box checker Drank water when I first got up, check Read Bible in the morning, no check Start my faith blog, check Pray for Lily to come to faith, check The list goes on and on, and my …
This prayer is not like our prayers. Let’s start by looking at Ephesians 1:17-19: 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy …
When my business failed in 2023, I was angry and felt God abandoned me. Let me tell a story to show my path. When I arrived in China in 1991, I taught English for two years, and decided I was not suitable to a career teaching as not very funny. I went and got an MBA in the US and came back to China to learn language and then do business to pay my bills and get a visa to …
Let us draw near to God. Lord, you know my heart better than I do. Examine my heart Lord and help me draw near to you Like you, I am glad to stand with King David in Ps 139: Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Lord give me passion for you. A song come into my head….”Open the eyes …
God changed my life when He led me to read the Bible every night starting in 8th grade. Being a habitual person, I could get that habit going and keep at it. Well, in college I switched to reading and praying in the morning. In the past year, I started reading the Chinese Bible before I go to bed, and the English Bible in the morning. It is my specific quiet time to be with God. I was reading I …
I started writing my sisters as the 75th wedding anniversary of my deceased parents is coming up. I realized that I was still mad at them, All children have been hurt by their parents in some ways. My parents were no better or worse than others, but I had to go to God to forgive them as I should not hold my anger, but let God handle the justice my anger seeks. However, what more do I need to give …
The Apostle Paul says (even complains) we are fools for Christ. 9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we go …
Making Disciples is a command from Jesus after His resurrection. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” These words inspired me, so I memorized them …
Gentleness is a super power from God that we need to grasp. Anger feels more empowering. but forms of the word gentle occur 30 times in the Bible. Most of those times are found in the New Testament. Can we trust God and choose gentle to make a better world with God’s wisdom? God saved us when he said revenge belongs to him. That is a first step. Someone hurts us, and we attack them back. Oops, no revenge says …
Committing ourselves to God’s care is much like He is asking you to sign the blank paper for your life and trust him to fill in all the details. Previously, I wrote that God knows best. He knows me better than I know myself is so true. Yes, and he cares for all the people. It will not due to have you tell God what is best for your life. You do not know what it will look like 20 …
