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Week 22 - Like Father, like Son |
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Written by Ming Dao Ting
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No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
John 1:18
I reckon that a large part of our attraction to visible gods is just that - we can see them. Believing in an invisible God is difficult, and you often feel like you just can’t know for sure if God’s really there. But is all you see all that there really is? |
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Week 20 & 21 - Even the bad promises |
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Written by Ming Dao Ting
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…Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had gone over to the king of Babylon. 2 Kings 25:8b-11
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Week 19 - The Solomonic Gospel |
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Written by Ming Dao Ting
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Yup, you heard me right. The gospel ala king Solomon. Hang on, which gospel are we talking about again? The good news of salvation, of course! The news that we can be restored back to God, for our sins have been atoned for by the Saviour who gave his life as the ultimate sacrifice. That’s the true gospel, and Solomon, in all his wisdom, knew it. I’ll tell you what I mean. |
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Week 18 - The Kingdom of God |
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Written by Ming Dao Ting
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I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this, but the kingdom of God has been appearing a lot in our New Testament readings. That is, the phrase “kingdom of God”, used more than 30 times by Luke in his 23 chaptered gospel. Suffice to say, if we miss the kingdom of God and its significance, we’ve missed a very major point of Jesus’ message. Indeed, in Luke 4:43, Jesus says that preaching the good news of the kingdom of God was the reason why he was sent to earth! While it would take books upon books to do justice to what the kingdom of God really is, let’s spend a bit of time reflecting on what Jesus has said about it so far. What is this kingdom anyway, and what does it mean for us? |
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Week 17 - Acknowledging our sin |
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Written by Ming Dao Ting
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We’ve all heard the story many times - king David sees beautiful Bathsheba beautiful woman bathing on her roof (whose husband was away at war), sleeps with her, she falls pregnant, and he tries (unsuccessfully) to get her husband to sleep with her to make it to shift the “blame”. Feeling the weight of his guilt and fearing the consequences (adultery demanded the death penalty – Lev 20:10), David orders Bathsheba’s husband to be sent to the front lines of the battle so that he would die. Within a short space of time, David, king of Israel, knowingly broke the sixth, seventh and tenth commandment. And he has no excuse. |
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