by Steven Chan How do we live our everyday lives? Are our lives influenced by what everyone else is doing in the community? Do we just go with the flow? Everyone goes to work and so, likewise we do the same. Everyone goes to school or colleges, and so we do likewise. Everyone finds a partner […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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by Patrick Swayne Missionary to Australia Those of us who have grown up in the church have heard from our youth up that a parable is ―an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. The word parable literally means, ―to throw beside,but it does indeed apply to when a spiritual truth is taught by a common, […]
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by Steven Chan When the early Christians were scattered abroad, the apostle Peter wrote a letter to them addressing them as “pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia” (1 Peter 1:1). That letter contained words of comfort and encouragement to the Christians. It is also a source of great comfort to […]
by Steven Chan The “high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Israel” (Acts 5:21); they “called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go” (Acts 5:40). The response […]