To Be in Christ’s Kingdom, You Must Be Changed

To Be in Christ’s Kingdom, You Must Be Changed

Based on 2 Corinthians 5:17

Khen Lim

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Introduction

Throughout our lives, we talk a lot about change. Nobody I know has never vowed to change for the better. Everyone does at some point in his life to improve in one way or another. 

Athletes promise change so that they can perform more consistently at an even higher level. Manufacturers talk about change where they can offer products that are more efficient or reliable. Or more profitably. People in general immerse themselves in change that makes them less fallible or vulnerable.

Christians, too, talk about change. Because we are, like everyone else, integral to change being an ongoing part of our life and faith. We are not unlike others in the sense things are in an ever-constant flux, persistently reinventing in order that we meet our life’s changing demands. 

Schedules change. Plans change. And sometimes, even the people in our lives change. And so essentially, the more things stay the same, the more they actually change. Change is the only thing that is constant. It’s our new norm.

What If Paul Walks Into Your Church Today?

What If Paul Walks into Your Church Today?

Khen Lim

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In 1998, President Bill Clinton’s three-year scandal with then-22-year-old Monica Lewinsky came to light, leading to his impeachment by the House of Representatives in the same year. The irony of the impeachment was that the two charges levelled against Clinton was for perjury and obstruction of justice. It wasn’t for immoral behaviour unbecoming of a person who held the highest office in the land. It seemed that having illicit or extramarital sex while serving in the White House is fine so long as you tell the truth and do not hinder the course of justice.

What If Christ Remained Dead

What If Christ Remained Dead

A look at 1 Corinthians 15

Khen Lim




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To any Christian to find out that Christ was after all not resurrected would be more cataclysmic than coming to terms with a nuclear detonation. It would be unthinkable. Unacceptable. Un-everything. It would be… un-Christian. 

Why? The plain reason would be that Christianity itself would simply evaporate into thin air like spontaneous combustion. A more complicated answer would require a few more words than that.

Liberty, Not Libertinism

Finding liberty in Christ by serving one another selflessly

Khen Lim

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We can credit the Apostle Paul for many of the things he had said that are recorded in the New Testament. Many of them have become immortal and inspiring verses. One of them is his declaration, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” (Gal 5:1, NIV) and these words flesh out Jesus’ story of freedom as it is widely known to His followers but also one that, when defined by the Cross, is diametrically at odds with contemporary and secular ideas of liberty.