The Life of Jesus Christ

  6 June 2023

Cleansing the Temple

The Temple in the Old Testament was an important place to worship God. The first Temple was built by King Solomon in 957BC in Jerusalem. The high priest would go to the Holy of Holies in the Temple once a year on the Day of Atonement to burn incense and sprinkle sacrificial animal blood to expiate …

  23 May 2023

The Parable of Golden Coins

This parable is about Jesus’ second coming as the King of kings and Lord of lords. Jesus gave this parable to teach us about God’s Kingdom. We learn that we need to be ready for Jesus’ second coming by obeying his commandments: Love God and love your neighbour. As followers of Jesus, we share the G…

  16 May 2023

Jesus Blesses the Children

Children did not have many rights during the time when Jesus lived. Even nowadays, children do not have the rights to express themselves in front of adults in some places. Jesus asks his disciples to let children come to him. Jesus blessed them. Jesus gives us the example of children’s faith becaus…

  2 May 2023

Jesus and a Tax Collector

As humans we all have shortfalls and shortcomings or weaknesses in our lives. How can we look for God in midst of our challenges? In this storey, Zacchaeus was short but he was looking for Jesus. Jesus noticed him, and spent time with him. In the same way when we look for Jesus, he is noticing us a…

  28 April 2023

Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar

  19 April 2023

Rich Men and the Kingdom of God

In Luke 18:18-30, Jesus gives us an important lesson about eternal life. This storey starts with a question from a religious leader. The question was, "How I can have eternal life?" Jesus tells us to have priorities in our life. For some people wealth, power, and respect are their priorities. Jesus…

  28 March 2023

The Persistent Widow

In Luke 18:1-8, Jesus tells us an important lesson through a storey. The meaning of this storey is that we should always pray and ask God to help us and we should trust that God hears our prayers and He is going to answer them. As followers of Jesus we should trust in God, we should have confidence…

  14 March 2023

Humility and Pride

There are different understanding of pride and humility in each culture. Jesus tells a storey in Luke 14:7-14 about this issue. When we see ourselves above others, or better than others, it means we are proud of our status, job, education, or race. Other people do not care about our achievements or…

  7 March 2023

Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector

In Luke 18:9-14, we read a parable about two different people. One is a religious leader that is proud of his work/knowledge and the other is a tax collector begging for mercy. Sometimes in life we might think that by our good work we can be saved. This is not true. We can be saved through repentan…

  24 February 2023

The Coming of God's Kingdom

In some religions, you can't ask any questions. In Christianity, you can ask questions about God eternal life, and forgiveness. A religious leader asked questions and Jesus told him that the Kingdom of God is among them. He was referring to himself. In other words, when we believe in Jesus we enter…

  14 February 2023

Forgiveness and Faith

We need to have faith to forgive. Without having faith in Jesus, we cannot forgive others. When we have faith in Jesus, he changes our hearts so that we will be able to forgive others. God wants to change our hearts and forgive us before we can forgive others.

  7 February 2023

Rich Man and Lazarus

Jesus talks to us through parables and stories that we can understand. The rich man in this story thought he was blessed and he did not pay attention or help a poor man begging for food. Both men died and their place in heaven was different. The poor man in heaven was setting with Abraham but the r…