Lent Meditations

Now there was a man named Joseph … a good and upright man … The women who had come with Jesus … saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. (Luke 23:50, 55)  Bible Reading: Luke 23:50-56 Read by Tan Siew Bee • Music: I Stand Amazed in the Presence (melody and lyrics by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Thank you for joining us on this 40-day journey re...

… Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “ Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? ” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). (Mark 15:34)  Bible Reading: Mark 15:21-39 Read by Tan Siew Bee • Music: I Stand Amazed in the Presence (melody and lyrics by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus...

… he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. (John 13:5) Bible Reading: John 13:1-17 Read by Tan Siew Bee • Music: I Stand Amazed in the Presence (melody and lyrics by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ cru...

… a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. (Matthew 26:7)  Bible Reading: Matthew 26:1-16 Read by Tan Siew Bee • Music: I Stand Amazed in the Presence (melody and lyrics by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading u...

“And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” (John 12:32)  Bible Reading: John 12:20-33 Read by Tan Siew Bee • Music: I Stand Amazed in the Presence (melody and lyrics by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you enter this j...

… “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ ” (Mark 11:17)  Bible Reading: Mark 11:12-18   Read by Tan Siew Bee • Music: I Stand Amazed in the Presence (melody and lyrics by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus...

… one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead … to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13b-14)  Bible Reading: Philippians 3:7-14 Read by Rev. James Ong • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the event...

The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20b)  Bible Reading: Galatians 2:15-21 Read by Rev. James Ong • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. A...

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. (2 Corinthians 4:7)  Bible Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 Read by Rev. James Ong • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurr...

… we were dead in transgressions … And God raised us with Christ and seated us with him … For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works … (Ephesians 2:5-6, 10)  Bible Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10 Read by Rev. James Ong • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the e...

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)  Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Read by Rev. James Ong • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ cruc...

… you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials … so that the proven genuineness of your faith … may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed. (1 Peter 1:6-7)  Bible Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Read by Rev. James Ong • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recallin...

“Open his eyes, LORD, so that he may see.” (2 Kings 6:17a)  Bible Reading: 2 Kings 6:8-23 Read by Mrs. Gladys Christie • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you enter this journey, we pray that your hearts will be tou...

So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him … (2 Kings 5:14a)  Bible Reading: 2 Kings 5:1-19a Read by Mrs. Gladys Christie • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you ent...

Then he … lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm. (2 Kings 4:34)  Bible Reading: 2 Kings 4:18-37 Read by Mrs. Gladys Christie • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ cr...

“Go back the way you came …” (1 Kings 19:15a)  Bible Reading: ⁠1 Kings 19:15-21 Read by Mrs. Gladys Christie • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you enter this journey, we pray that your hearts will be touched afres...

“He replied again …” (1 Kings 19:14, NLT)  Bible Reading: 1 Kings 19:9b-14 Read by Mrs. Gladys Christie • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you enter this journey, we pray that your hearts will be touched afresh by...

“I have had enough, LORD … Take my life …” (1 Kings 19:4b)  Bible Reading: 1 Kings 19:1-9a   Read by Mrs. Gladys Christie • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you enter this journey, we pray that your hearts will be...

… we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body … (Hebrews 10:19-20)  Bible Reading: Hebrews 10:19-25 Read by Jerome Welch • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading...

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ … cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! (Hebrews 9:14)  Bible Reading: ⁠ Hebrews 9:11-15 Read by Jerome Welch • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ cru...

But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises. (Hebrews 8:6) Bible Reading: Hebrews 8: 1-6, 13 Read by Jerome Welch • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-da...

For it is declared: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” (Hebrews 7:17) Bible Reading: Hebrews 7:17-28 Read by Jerome Welch • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you enter this journey, we pray tha...

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. (Hebrews 4:14) Bible Reading: Hebrews 4:14-5:10 Read by Jerome Welch • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ cr...

For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he … might make atonement for the sins of the people. (Hebrews 2:17)  Bible Reading: Hebrews 2:10-18 Read by Jerome Welch • Music: The Old Rugged Cross (melody and lyrics by George Bennard) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ cruci...

“I will show the holiness of my great name … Then the nations will know that I am the LORD … when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.” (Ezekiel 36:23)  Bible Reading: Ezekiel 36:22-32 Read by Rev. Gaurri Maniam • Music: My Jesus, I Love Thee (melody by Adoniram Judson Gordon, lyrics by William Ralph Featherstone) • Performed by Timothy Yap. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day jou...