ODB: God’s Wheelchair

ODB: God’s Wheelchair

Jean Driscoll is a remarkable athlete. She has won the Boston Marathon eight times. She has also participated in four Paralympic Games and won five gold medals. Born with spina bifida, Jean competes in a wheelchair.One of Driscoll’s favorite Bible verses is Daniel 7:9, “The Ancient of Days was seated . . . . His [...]

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Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

By Tracy Phua, 23, Singapore “Continue reading if you’ve told Mrs Lee that I cheated in the Math test . . .” I stared at this opening sentence in a hand-written letter from a classmate in great bewilderment. What on earth have I done? At that time, I was a 13-year-old who had just enrolled [...]

ODB: sweet praise

ODB: sweet praise

September 30, 2010 READ: Colossians 3:12-17 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly . . . singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. —Colossians 3:16 Several years ago, my husband helped to lead a work crew of high school students on a short-term missions trip to a Christian school in an urban community. [...]

ODJ: universal problem

ODJ: universal problem

September 30, 2010 Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know His law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it (v.14).  READ: Romans 2:1-15 In his book Human Universals, anthropologist Donald Brown lists over 400 human behaviors common across all cultures. Some of his findings are touching: All [...]