In Conclusion...

[Passage]: Read 2 Corinthians 13:14 There was once an old man who sat by the roadside everyday. He was dirty and smelly. Just being near him makes you nauseas. People would not only pass him by, they would avoid him by a mile if they could. A young boy came one day and saw the old man. As he looked at the old man, he felt compassionate. The young boy went and bought a loaf of bread with all the money he had, gave it to the old man, gave his bottle of water, looked at the old man and smiled. "Here, for you!" The sincerity of the young boy touched the old man's heart. He stood up and hugged the boy. Then, he took out a sack of gold and gave it to the boy, saying, "I am the king of this nation....

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Punishment that has an ending

[Passage]: Read Joel 2:23 "Pppppiiiiiaaaaannnnggggg~" Ken had broken the antique vase in the house. Just 5 minutes ago, Ken's dad had just warned him not to play football in the house. But Ken would just not listen. While Ken was imagining that he was the first Malaysian to be a Manchester United player, and that the game entered the penalty shootouts, and that it was up to him to score the winning goal, unbeknown to Ken, he kicked the ball a tad too hard, causing the ball to deflect from the wall at such a great velocity that it hit dad's expensive and precious antique vase. "KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNN!" shouted dad, with anger heard in his voice. Ken shivered with fear in anticipation of...

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J-O-Y = Jesus first, Yourself last, and Others in between

[Passage]: Read Philippians 2:3-4 Imagine this scene. A little girl is sick with a terminal illness. Day by day she gets sicker and sicker. Little by little, she gets weaker until she is no longer able to independently operate her daily routines. But instead, her little sister is the one that feeds her, cleans her, helps take things for her, and literally serve her. A question was posted to the younger sister. "Why do you serve your sister like that? Is it because of guilt or because she is dying?" The little girl looked up and shook her head. "No... The answer is simple... Because I love her..." Or another scene wherein this lady gets a particular terminal disease in which as time goes by,...

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To Do or To Love?

[Passage]: Read Acts 7 and Psalm 119:165 I remember once during my high school days, happened a fight. Now before I go on to elaborate on the fight, one thing that you must first understand is the crumble of the racial wall between my batchmates. Those in my batch were really 1Malaysia. We had Indians, Chinese, and Malays all eating together, playing together, and were really on buddy terms. Now this fight happened in a class that was predominantly Malay with one Indian and one Chinese in the class. It was a fight that was instigated by the Chinese classmate. Now, the disciplinary teacher found out about the fight and called one of the Malay boys to the office. In actual fact, this Malay boy...

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"Are You There?"

[Passage]: Read Psalm 116:1-2 As a kid, some of us were really mischievious... We skipped school, played pranks on people, and the list goes on and on (*evil grin*). But like Newton's Third Law of Motion, "For every action exists an equal and opposite reaction." In this case, the reaction is facing disciplinary actions. Remember the times you were asked to wait outside the principle's office and seconds seem like years? Your heart pounding as you wonder what fate awaits you... Caning, scolding, suspension or expulsion? You wished there was someone to come and rescue you.. Your favorite teacher or even your parents. In your heart, you cry out asking for salvation! Well, this story may be a...

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"IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!" (T.T)

[Passage: Psalm 94.] "Why does Josh get all the toys and I don't?" "Why does Susan get new clothes but I get all her old ones?" "Why am I ALWAYS asked to do the chores but James can just kick back and watch TV?" How often do we make such statements (or at least feel this way)? Our natural conclusion in times like this is that "My parents love my siblings more than me!" The psalmist felt the same way too. He looked around him and realized that the wicked were prospering while those committed Christians were suffering. Verses 6-7 show that the psalmist probably felt that the suffering they faced were in actual fact caused by the wicked! To the psalmist, this was unfair! Why do we who serve...

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Cheese Sandwiches Again??!

[Passage: Romans 8:31-39.] There was an story told by Peter Kreeft of a poor European family who saved for years to buy tickets to sail to America. Once at sea, they carefully rationed the cheese and bread they had brought for the journey. After 3 days, the boy complained to his father, “I hate cheese sandwiches. If I don’t eat anything else before we get to America, I’m going to die.” Giving the boy his last nickel, the father told him to go to the ship’s galley and buy an ice-cream cone. When the boy returned a long time later with a wide smile, his worried dad asked, “Where were you?” “In the galley, eating three ice-cream cones and a steak dinner!” “All that for a nickel?” “Oh,...

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