The sermon on the Mount is filled with great truths and applications for a follower of Christ. There are some biblical themes present in how Matthew introduces the sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:1-2. For example, Jesus was portrayed as the great Master Teacher. There were multitudes who followed Him together with His disciples. Jesus made use of the occasion to teach and preach. Matthew introduced the sermon on the mount by setting the stage for us to read what the great Ma

We ushered in the new year just a few days ago.  Hello 2026 and goodbye 2025. Now, at the start of the new year, it is a very good time to consider our spiritual condition and make some reflection.   Before we were saved by obeying the gospel, Paul says, that we “ were dead in trespasses and sins…that at that time you were without Christ … having no hope and without God in the world .” (Ephesians 2:1, 12). Now, we have the hope of eternal life (Titus 1:2). But the condition t

I grew up in a village in Lim Chu Kang in the early 1960s when piped water and electricity were non-existent in my house. In my early childhood years, I had only come into contact with rain water, water from the river or water from the well. I had no knowledge of running tap water until I was much older. When I had to take a bath, I would have to walk over to my uncle’s house a distance away to use the well at his property. The bathroom was a zinc-shed built around a well.  W

During a sermon, a brother once said, “If we do not enjoy fellowship now, we will not enjoy it in heaven.”. This statement captures an important truth: as Christians, we look forward to the joy of heaven - a place of perfect peace, worship, and fellowship. But Scripture gently reminds us that our experience of heaven is shaped by the lives we live today. If we struggle to enjoy the fellowship of believers now, we may not be preparing our hearts for the eternal fellowship that

Saying good-bye to those we love is always difficult. Saying goodbye for the final time is often hard to bear. From the top row of this theater, a spectator could have easily seen the ancient harbor of Miletus and the place where the elders of Ephesus walked with the apostle Paul to a ship headed for Judea (Acts 20:38). The ancient harbor of Miletus, once a thriving maritime center, no longer exists. Silt from the Meander River closed its access to the Aegean Sea, and the cit