Near-Death Teaches Us Valuable Lessons

Near-Death Teaches Us Valuable Lessons

Khen Lim



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Even before my wife and I were married, we made the decision to live with my aged parents instead of finding our own home. With my elder brother living with his own family and working abroad, there was little chance of him being able to help in any real way. The best we could expect from him was a once-a-year visit, which for all intents and purposes, wouldn’t make much difference. 

My mother passed away in October 2015 and would have painfully missed the birth of my twin girls, which was a mere week later. By all accounts, Heather and Bridget were supposed to be born the day after she died in the same hospital and with that in mind, she fell short by a mere fifteen hours.

After my mother’s passing, my father’s health steadily declined. A year before she was diagnosed with duodenal cancer, he was pulled up for an abnormally high level of platelets in his blood. On further investigation, it was discovered with a persistent case of low haemoglobin count. 

Eventually then came the shocking news that he also had Stage III kidney failure. Apart from all of this, his heart was weak and his longstanding fight with diabetes and enlarged prostate all added up to more than any family could handle in addition to my mother’s cancer.

Letter to the Philippians (Part Twelve)

Part Twelve of the New Testament Survey Series

Khen Lim



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Incarcerated in a Roman prison for the first time, Paul’s letter to the Philippians is just one of four written behind bars and yet this is the very letter in which the apostle discovered much of what the imprisonment had revealed to him.

Firstly he admitted to have acquired a more advanced understanding of the Gospel (1:12-18). Then he declared that it is a Christian’s duty to suffer for Christ (1:27-30), to follow in the steps of Christ towards achieving humility (2:1-11) and to ‘work out’ their salvation (2:12-18).

A Truly Biblically United Church is Possible

By Khen Lim



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“Unity” and “oneness” has a profound biblical importance. Psalm 133:1 says unity with others is a ‘good’ thing and it’s ‘pleasant.’ Paul says in 1 Cor 12:27 that unity is integral to church being a ‘body of Christ’ and as such it cannot be disunited or in a state of flux with itself because when it does, the body simply ceases to be. To put that into sharper perspective, Jesus has told us of His plans for His church to be a people united in faith.