August 22 - Security and Trust
This psalm begins with a general declaration of how one may receive security followed by a personal response to the Lord in the first two...
August 21 - Living under God’s Wrath
The theme of Moses’ prayer is not only about the brevity of life but also the quality of life that we live. It begins with our being born...
August 20 - God’s Timing
Time is a creature and is in God’s hands. Other than chronological time, there is also the appointed time in which God acts in human...
August 19 - Spiritual Gifts and the Body
It seems that Paul has changed topics, from teachings on the Lord’s Supper to teachings on spiritual gifts. Actually, Paul only uses the...
August 18 - Discerning the Body
The Lord’s Supper is a way of revelation about our view of the body of Christ. When we partake of the bread and the cup, we are tested in...
August 17 - Conditions for God’s Presence
God is the King, sitting on His throne. Like a human king before he goes out, there are attendants and heralds or forerunners before him,...
August 16 - Living out the Lord’s Supper
The two rituals we observe in most of our churches are not there for us to do periodically but have far deeper significance for our...
August 15 - The Priority of the Gospel
Paul’s life was mission-driven, he knew who he was and what he supposed to do. He adjusted his lifestyle so as to accomplish the purpose...
August 14 - The Power of God’s Word
When Ezra the scribe opened the Word of the Lord, the Law that Moses had given to the Israelites to observe, the people received it with...
August 13 - The Schemes of the Enemy
One of the ways to defeat our enemy is to have a God-given discernment concerning the schemes of the enemy. To rebuild the wall of...