June 2026: Do You Love Those Who Hate You?
Published on 06/01/2026 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
When someone "slaps" you, do you find it hard to turn the other cheek?
How about to even love the one who slapped you?
Our Lord Jesus doesn't give us difficult things to do that he himself doesn't do. For every talk he talked, he also walked it. He not only turned the other cheek, but even gave his life as a ransom for God's enemies (Romans 5:10). As his disciples, we are called to walk as he walked, to not only love those who love us but more so to love those who despise us.
Clarifying Teaching Regarding Our …...Read more
May 2026: An Eye-Poker or Cheek-Turner - Which One Are You?
Published on 05/01/2026 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
How does Lord Jesus' teaching strike you?
Much of Christ's teaching in the sermon on the mount sounds straightforward. The principles sound easy to apply, but once we start applying them, we find ourselves making excuses or justifying our disobedience. We tend to do this because of our inherited sin nature. To overcome our sin nature, we need to rely on God. As you continue to study our Lord's teaching and live by it, always pray for your Father in heaven to give you the ability, the will and the boldness to do what He taught through His Son.
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April 2026: Pluck Out the Sinning Eye
Published on 04/01/2026 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
How good a doctor would you be? Would you just alleviate the symptoms or get to the root cause of a disease to try to uproot it?
What kind of doctor is Jesus? After all, he is our great physician. Let us find out!
After having exhorted his disciples to be more righteous than the Pharisees and scribes and to obey the Torah, Lord Jesus began clarifying the specific ordinances of the Torah so they could immediately start to please God and serve humanity as the salt and light of the world. He commenced with the big one: the ordinance …...Read more
March 2026: The Right Righteousness
Published on 03/01/2026 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
"A city on a hill" and "turn the other cheek" are among the popular quotes from Lord Jesus' sermon on the mount. But how much of his teaching do you understand to apply correctly to your life?
Though the sermon on the mount is a well-known and beloved teaching of our Lord Jesus, it is often misinterpreted. Many people incorrectly believe that Jesus was "changing" the ordinances of the Torah that Yahweh gave to Israel through Moses, that somehow Jesus disagreed with his Father and was "re-writing" the laws and giving Israel a new set of laws. Nothing can be …...Read more
February 2026: The Paradox of Christian Living
Published on 02/01/2026 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
What do the sun, a lighthouse, a police officer, and a Christian have in common?
They all shine as beacons of light, providing warmth, guidance, warning, and exposing darkness. The sun brings warmth and delight, a lighthouse aids and guides, and a police officer maintains order by warning and disciplining offenders. Like these lights, a Christian should shine forth as the light of the world, and we will now study exactly how.
Matthew was a Gospel writer who zoomed in on several of Jesus' discourses and teaching sessions. The most well-known lesson that Jesus taught is what we dub "the …...Read more
January 2026: Pair Up with Jesus
Published on 01/01/2026 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
"Two are better than one." This fact stated in Ecclesiastes 4 holds true in many situations: having someone with you can lend you support, offer encouragement, provide protection, and grant power as in the case of our ministry.
Even though our Lord Jesus is the divine Son of God who can achieve anything in a blink of an eye with no human assistance, he, like his Father, enjoys working through and with his human agents. If you ask me, working with humans can often lead to a lot of headaches, since we're finite and flawed, not to mention sinful. Yet, …...Read more
December 2025: The Truth: How Do You Respond to It?
Published on 12/01/2025 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
How do you respond to the truth?
The truth is often ignored, hated or mocked. We see this sad fact from the life of Christ.
The Tanakh (Old Testament) is filled with Messianic prophecies. The prophetic books, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, prophesied the origin, birth, life, ministry and sacrificial death of one extraordinary ruler, and that ruler turned out to be Jesus. But when he first came to Earth two thousand years ago, most people, even his own disciples, were blind to his divine identity or calling. Many even jeered at him and belittled his disciples. In the end, …...Read more
November 2025: Washing for the Year of Favor
Published on 11/01/2025 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
Water. This is the common thread that runs through John 3-4. But it's not any water--it's the Holy Spirit. Let's talk about the "water" that every person requires in order to be a Christian.
In John 3, Jesus told Nicodemus that no one can enter God's Kingdom unless they are born of the Spirit and water. At the opening of his book, the apostle John informed his readers that the right to become the children of God is given by Jesus to anyone who believes in his name. The right to become God's children does not come by any other …...Read more
October 2025: Harvesting for Our King
Published on 10/01/2025 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
On one "ordinary" day in the life of our Lord, he conversed with a Samaritan woman who's despised by the Jews and shattered by men. There at the water well, he brought her hope and healing, and made a most remarkable revelation of himself that he seldom made...
The Revelation of the King
"The woman said to him, 'I know that Messiah comes,' (he who is called Christ). 'When he has come, he will declare to us all things.'" (John 4:25, WEB)
As the conversation between Christ and the Samaritan woman continued, the woman declared that they (she and her …...Read more
September 2025: The Water That Makes You Thirst No More
Published on 09/01/2025 by Dr-Shirley-Cheng.
Are there coincidences?
When God is involved, there's only God-incidents.
The apostle John was the only Gospel writer who wrote about Jesus' early ministry in Judea, whereas the other writers began Jesus' ministry account in Galilee after John the Baptizer was taken into prison. We saw from our previous lesson that for a time, John and Jesus baptized the repentant Jews at the same time, though likely some distance apart to give each group some space. In John 4, we're told that Jesus himself wasn't baptizing anyone but his disciples were.
Jesus' increasing popularity with the people became an issue …...Read more
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