Christian Doctrines

Obedience in Small Things Collin Leong. June 1 2023   You may be aware that the Jews were exiled in Babylon for 70 years, as they disobeyed God and worshipped pagan Gods. At the end of the 70 years, Cyrus, the King of Persia, conquered Babylon, and allowed the Jews to go back to Jerusalem to build the temple. The temple was destroyed by the Babylonians when they were exiled.  Zerubbabel was the leader of those Jews who volunteered to go home to Jerusalem. (About 50,000 of them went home.)  The first thing they did was to build the altar so that they can offer burnt offering to God. The next thing they did was to build the foundation of the temple. When the foundation was completed, Ezra described the emotions of the Jews: "And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israe...

  The L.O.V.E of God Collin Leong. May 18 2023 The apologist Ravi Zacharias once said that there four Big  Questions of Life:  1) Our Origin - where do I come from?  2) Our Purpose - why am I here? 3) Our Morality - what is right & wrong? 4) Our Destiny - where am I going? I believe the answers to these questions can be answered by the love of God. God's love can be remembered this way, using the acronym of L.O.V.E.  L represents Life. O represents Overseeing; V represents Victory; and E represents Eternity.  1. L = Life What is Our Origin - where do I come from?  Genesis told us that God is the creator of the universe and of all life. He created the trees, the birds, the fish, and all the animals. And then he created us, the human beings. But the way he created life for us are different from the way he did for the animals.  The way he created the universe is by using His voice. He said let there be plants, let there be fish and birds, let the...