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There is one instance when I was walking towards Swanston Street just across the Flinders Street Station, I saw a homeless young girl about 23 years of age and wrapped with comforter in the middle of the winter season early morning. I have been noticing her for quite some time as she appeared on and off in that place. One morning I noticed her she was asleep which seems unusual as she was awake most of the time when I get there. I was wondering how she was as she was lying there and sleeping in the cold winter morning.  I just passed by and continue walking wondering about that lady. Then I've seen the nearby McDonalds fastfood store and I decided to drop by, bought a take away breakfast meal and a hot coffee, and walk away. But I have no intention to consume what I have just bought as for whatever reason, a voice telling me to bring it to the lady I've seen lying on that floor. I turned around and walk back to the lady, kneel down to wake her up. I tap her softly and say ...

Luke 5:18-20 18 And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, 19 but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. 20 And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”  Too often, churches nowadays are becoming exclusive and isolated to the real world as they create and build themselves with their services and ministries. We want to make sure we are always the first to glance the beauty of our God where we want to surround the church in every place we can fit in and leaving no space for others to even squeeze themselves just to have a look of Jesus. We think mostly that we are the first to be called and so we must always the first to lead. We all loved to be in the front row, especially if an opportunity to witness an awesome Broadway play, to lead a project in our ...

Luke 13:6-9 6 Then Jesus told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 7 So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?' 8 But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.9 Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.'" Jesus parable in Luke 13:6-9 is indeed a warning to all of us who claims to be Christians. We are being nurtured by God's mercy and grace as He shared us His salvation. We are fed in His soil as we continue to live together in His tree, His church. God gave us time to grow and I always believe that He has given us many opportunities as well for us to learn, develop, and accomplish victory with God's favo...

Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Many Christians have neglected the power of the first ten words in the Bible which says "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." We simply use or associate these words as the primary reference to the theoretical and theological explanation of creation (creationism) to compete with the theory of evolution. We have a strong belief that these statements are just for mere reference to support our faith in creationism. These words indeed bear the very nature of our God that He exists prior to his creation and that clearly signified in these words of the Bible. It characterised the omnipresent and transcendent nature of our God and the clear authorship of the created object which bears the concept called trilogy of trilogy. The trilogy of trilogy refers to the object measured in time, space, and matters which interrelated but cannot stand on its own. Time refers to past, present, future. Space...

The questioning of the reliability of every word written in the Bible is becoming popular nowadays. It seems to be hard for a person to believe that scriptures written are indeed true or even accurate at the very least, especially now that technologies and science are advancing. This issue is not even new in today's generation, it had existed then in earlier generations, and this notion seems to be widely spreading. God became silent for many years without messages, visions, and words given to any prophets or priests. And without any voice being heard from God, His past words are being forgotten and sometimes people consider irrelevant. If that period, which is not long enough compare to where we are now in this generation, can doubt about God’s word; How much more in our current generations? God made a promise that He will send a Saviour and that He will restore the broken relationship between man and God.  Mary, the mother of Jesus on earth, is not an exception to this social dil...

Mothers are truly exceptional, no offense to their husbands but they are indeed the only human beings who are capable to bear pain that can almost kill themselves and yet smile after seeing their babies in their arms, who once inside their womb for about nine months. Amazing isn’t it? Surpassing this challenge is indeed a miracle for me, that’s why I salute our mothers out there, my full respect are all yours. I believe mothers can survive impossibilities; they have the ability to accept anything and everything for the sake of their children to be borne and living. They just simply love their kids.  Mary (the mother of Jesus), on the other hand, has a different case as she bore Jesus in her womb while she was still a virgin. She has not engaged yet in any sexual relation and is about to get married. In that time, that is something to be ashamed of knowing that a young lady was pregnant without a husband yet. But God has a greater plan for her and help her to get out of shame withou...

Stillness and silence are the two important disciplines that Christian must integrate to themselves as part of their daily walk of faith, in service to our God and to our neighbours in the communion with the Holy Spirit. These two looks to be similar but in reality are completely different in purpose and in need, however, these are very close to each other that both are mostly dependent to each other. Silence is the practice of being quiet before our God of every inner or outer self-voices and being attentive to His Voice (or Words). Stillness is the practice of releasing our dependence to ourselves and relying solely to God in every aspect of our lives. While we are busy dealing in our lives and the lives with our families and friends, church ministries and activities, social communities, and personal ambitions; we are forgetting to set a time for being quiet and calm especially when the stress levels are high. God’s invitation in Psalms 46:10, is asking us to trust in Him. He offered...