Serving God Or Yourself?

“Save me, please! I want to sleep,” my daughter said in a begging voice as I woke up in the middle of the night. I know she was dreaming and what she really wanted was to take a rest. She got up very early that morning, worked on a particular project with her teammates at school during [...]

Forever Young

Ageing is an inevitably process humans have been working to prevent for ages. In China Emperor Qin shi Huang assigned a group of his officers abroad to seek some kind of medicine of youth and longevity, but they worked in vain and didn’t return to the palace. In Greek Mythology, all Olympian gods and goddesses [...]

Walking By The Lord Today

I don’t know about tomorrow,
I just live from day to day;
I don’t borrow from its sunshine,
For it skies may turn to gray;
I don’t worry o’er the future,
For I know what Jesus said,
And today I’ll walk beside Him,
For He knows what is ahead.
Many times about tomorrow I don’t seem to understand;
But I know who holds tomorrow
And [...]

Doing His way

As I was in college, a classmate of mine did many weird things, one of which he did was to make a carved image for himself.  Asked what the image was, he would respond proudly, “This is a god made from my hands and I’ll worship it.” In fact, he worshipped that image every day from [...]

Falling At His Feet

How will we approach a person in urgent need of help? would we condescend to beg and seek help if we were in higher position or would we just give an order to have someone do us a favor.
We read the story in Luke 8:40-54 that Jesus raised Jairus’ daughter from death. Jairus was a [...]

The Word In Authority

Jesus started his ministry often at local Jewish temples where he taught the Word of God, healed the sick and cast out demons from. The people there were always astonished at his teachings, for he taught with real authority unlike the scribes, the teachers of religious law.
The scribes are the intellectuals  who study and search [...]

Challenging yourself

In today’s Our Daily Bread, the writer quoted John F.  Kennedy’s words from his speech regarding moon exploration. the president said, “We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.”
Life is not always easy, as it is written in Psalms 90:10 that [...]

Returning Home

Back to the year 1999 when I came to Christ in the States, I was so thrilled that God would grant me whatever I asked for in faith.  Thus, I kept praying to God to grant me this wish — to stay in America because I love this country. Each time I prayed for it, uneasiness [...]

A Broken Vessel

My parents grew up near the end of the Second World War when Taiwan under Japanese rule fought against the U.S. and its allies.  They went through many hardships in the times of the war such as food shortage and taking shelter in the basement or bomb shelters, so they have learned to be not wasteful and be resourceful. [...]

Bowing At The Cross

Neath the cross of my Savior I ponder:
Why should Jesus bear such agony?
Here the pure Lamb of God gave His own life,
That I might from my sins be set free.
Lord, for me, Thou hast all yours forsaken.
How can I shun Thy great love once more.
I believe, I receive Thee, Lord Jesus.
And to Thee yield my [...]