18–24 January 2015. Psalm 18:25–50 (Click to read). In the church’s Bible-reading schedule, we come now to Psalm 18:25–50. On the one hand, this psalm is a good reminder to us Christians that we are reading texts that came from a different age, a different culture, a different part of the world, and also a […]
11–17 January, 2015. Psalm 12 (Click to read). So often in Taiwan we see so-called “successful people” who have gained their positions and wealth not through honesty and hard work but through flattery, lies, and cheating. Every week there seems to be another news report about corruption among our politicians, business leaders, and even church […]
4–10 January, 2015. Psalm 5 (Click to read text). One of the most common problems we face in life comes from dealing with other people’s gossip. When people are so polite to our faces, but then secretly spread evil rumours and lies behind us, it hurts us so deeply. We feel like there is no […]
28 December 2014 – 3 January 2015. Revelation 20 (Click to read). For those of you following the church’s Bible reading plan, this month we read through the difficult and controversial Book of Revelation: the last book of the Bible for the end of the calendar year. As we come to the end of […]
21–27 December, 2014. Revelation 13 (click to read). For those of you following the church’s Bible reading plan, this month we read through the difficult and controversial Book of Revelation: the last book of the Bible for the end of the calendar year. This week in our reading of Revelation we come to chapter 13, the description of […]
14–20 December, 2014. Revelation 6 (click to read). For those of you following the church’s Bible reading plan, this month we read through the difficult and controversial Book of Revelation: the last book of the Bible for the end of the calendar year. Last week we saw that in the Book of Revelation, John uses symbols and […]
7–13 December 2014. Revelation 1 (Click to read). For those of you following the church’s Bible reading plan, this month we read through the difficult and controversial Book of Revelation: the last book of the Bible for the end of the calendar year. This week we begin reading together the Book of Revelation. This is one of the […]
30 November – 6 December 2014. 1 John 3:1, 16–18 (Full chapter here). “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! … This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we […]
23–29 November 2014. 2 Peter 2 (click to read). This week’s reading comes from 2 Peter 2, but we especially want to look at verse 1: “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who […]
16–22 November 2014. James 4 (click to read). This week’s scripture reading comes from James 4:1–2a: “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire, but do not have; so you kill. You covet, but you cannot get what you want; so you quarrel and fight.” What […]