Lent Meditations

This took place to fulfil what was spoken through the prophet: “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey ...’” (Matthew 21:4-5a) Bible Reading: Matthew 21:1-11 Read by Kiew Sieh Jin • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a...

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. (Zechariah 9:9) Bible Reading: Zechariah 9:9-10 Read by Kiew Sieh Jin • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with...

As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house ... (1 Peter 2:4-5a) Bible Reading: 1 Peter 2:1-10 Read by Dr. Voon Choon Khing • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with perm...

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.” (Matthew 21:31b) Bible Reading: Matthew 21:28-32 Read by Dr. Voon Choon Khing • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey reca...

... “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.” (Romans 9:33) Bible Reading: Romans 9:30-33 Read by Dr. Voon Choon Khing • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join u...

“He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” (Isaiah 8:14a) Bible Reading: Isaiah 8:11-15 Read by Dr. Voon Choon Khing • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journe...

“Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’” (Acts 4:11) Bible Reading: Acts 4:1-12 Read by Dr. Voon Choon Khing • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and r...

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the LORD has done this, and it is marvellous in our eyes. (Psalm 118:22-23) Bible Reading: Psalm 118:22-24 Read by Dr. Voon Choon Khing • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling t...

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord,who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18) Bible Reading: 2 Corinthians 3:1-18 Read by Kwan Swee Ching • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd....

... let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. (Hebrews 10:22) Bible Reading: Hebrews 10:11-25 Read by Kwan Swee Ching • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four...

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! (Hebrews 9:14) Bible Reading: Hebrews 9:11-28 Read by Kwan Swee Ching • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty...

Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven. (Hebrews 8:1) Bible Reading: Hebrews 8:1-13 Read by Kwan Swee Ching • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40...

And [Jesus] said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfilment in the kingdom of God.” (Luke 22:15-16) Bible Reading: Luke 22:14-23 Read by Kwan Swee Ching • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. U...

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will makea new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.” (Jeremiah 31:31) Bible Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Read by Kwan Swee Ching • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey re...

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them ... (1 John 3:9a) Bible Reading: 1 John 3:1-10 Read by Lisa Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and r...

... he entrusted himself to him who judges justly ... to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. (1 Peter 2:23b, 25b) Bible Reading: 1 Peter 2:21-25 Read by Lisa Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesu...

“[He who] hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.” (John 12:47; ESV) Bible Reading: John 12:37-50 Read by Lisa Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling...

“For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Matthew 9:13b) Bible Reading: Matthew 9:9-13 Read by Lisa Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. As you enter...

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21) Bible Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Read by Lisa Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading...

“The days are coming ... when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right ...” (Jeremiah 23:5) Bible Reading: Jeremiah 23:1-8 Read by Lisa Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey re...

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life ... (1 John 5:11-12a) Bible Reading: 1 John 5:1-12 Read by Clement Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the event...

Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6; NET) Bible Reading: John 14:1-7 Read by Clement Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey recalling the events leading up to J...

“Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! ... I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.” (John 1:29b, 34; NET) Bible Reading: John 1:29-34 Read by Clement Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey...

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. (John 1:14; NET). Bible Reading: John 1:14-18 Read by Clement Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on...

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way forthe Lord, make straight paths for him.’” (Matthew 3:3b) Bible Reading: Matthew 3:1-16 (Mark 1:1-11; Luke 3:1-9, 21-22) Read by Clement Kwan • Music: Near The Cross (melody by William Howard Doane, lyrics by Fanny Crosby) • Performed by Chai Jee Yi ℗ 2025 Four Forty Records Sdn Bhd. Used with permission. Join us on a 40-day journey reca...