Every Monday morning at the Melbourne Bible Institute, missionaries from Australia spoke about their work in places that was out of their comfort zones. Kate heard their stories of how they worked among the poor and with lepers, how they walked for miles through jungle, wading through swamps, battling fierce sandstorms, through sickness and pain, being thrown into prisons, encountering life-threatening situations. They were willing to go through all this to share the gospel with people living in faraway places and in harsh conditions.

Greetings, dear listeners. Welcome to the 10th talk of our series on New Testament Survey. We continue from our last session which introduced the general epistles and highlighted Hebrews, James and 1 Peter. We shall now complete highlighting the remaining general epistles: 2 Peter, 1, 2 and 3 John and Jude.

In the last episode, we heard how the Friday Bible Class impacted Kate during her secondary school years.

After the ‘O’ Level Cambridge examinations at Secondary Four, Kate went on to a three-year Teachers’ Training Course. About 6 months before graduation, her friend, Hian Mee, from the Friday Bible Class, asked her, “Kate, would you like to go with me to study Theology in Melbourne?” Kate was surprised but she answered, “If it is God’s will, I will go with you.” Kate didn’t mean it – and couldn’t have realised how prophetic her words were.

Welcome listeners to the 9th session of our series on New Testament Survey. We have covered the epistles of Paul in the previous two talks. In this and the next session, we shall introduce the epistles of the other New Testament writers. Each of them have something significant to contribute to our faith. As an introduction, there are 8 epistles written by different important New Testament writers, other than Paul. They are grouped together as the general or catholic epistles. These terms tell us that the messages of these writings are for all.

Hello friends, thank you for staying with us on Sweet Memories, Sweet Success, an autobiography by Mrs Kate Cheah.

Last week, we heard about the faith of Kate’s parents, especially that of her mother. Today, let’s listen to how Kate spent her younger years.

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A Christian version of old English nursery rhyme goes like this:

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,

She had so many children and loved them all, too.

Greetings in Christ, dear listeners. Welcome to our eighth talk on our series on New Testament Survey. This is the second talk that follows the previous on the Pauline epistles where we introduce the person of Paul, his ministry, his teachings and his writings. In this session, we follow up by highlighting each of his 13 epistles. First, let’s look at the order of the letters.

Introduction

Today, we begin a new series, Sweet Memories, Sweet Success. It is based on an autobiography by Mrs Kate Cheah.

Welcome dear listeners in Jesus name to our seventh talk in our series of our New Testament Survey. This is the first of two talks on the epistles of Paul. Our coverage of the book of Acts in the last talk showed us that Paul was the Apostle of Christ to the Gentiles. The Spirit used him to preach the Gospel and plant churches in many regions and cities of the Roman empire, ending with his arrival in Rome as a prisoner but thereby, bringing the Gospel there.

Dear listeners, we have come to the final talk of our series of twelve on Old Testament Survey. We began with the emphasis that the Old and the New Testament together form one Bible as the written Word of God. We went on to cover each category and every book of the Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi.