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Devotionals for Easter by Our Daily Bread

19/2/2021

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"Following Jesus to the Cross" is now available from Our Daily Bread. This illustrated guide with 12 devotionals for Easter will guide our reflections on the passion, crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus this Easter season. Based on the Gospel of Mark, each reading contains reflection questions and prayers to commit ourselves to God. 

Evoke our senses with photographs of the sites where the events of the final week are believed to have taken place, and let this devotional make the Scripture come alive for us in fresh ways.
A sample chapter of this booklet is extracted below.
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If you or your church would like to have copies of this devotional booklet, please contact Our Daily Bread Malaysia.
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For those of you who might be interested in my book, Following Jesus, where more reflections from the Gospel of Mark can be found, please click here.

Join me in this book where we journey through the regions of Galilee, Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, Bethany Beyond the Jordan, and many others in following the footsteps of Jesus. With more than 180 images and 13 maps and illustrations, readers will not only experience the sights and settings of the Holy Land, but also discover the biblical significance of these sites. Questions for reflection and prayers at the end of each chapter will help prepare readers for their own encounter with Christ.
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My Latest Book: Following Jesus

21/7/2019

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My latest book, Following Jesus: An Illustrated Guide to the Places of the Holy Land according to the Gospel of Mark, will be released soon by Armour Publishing under the STM Series.

There will be a launch for the book on September 21 at Luther Centre. More information will follow soon.

Tentative selling price is RM75 per copy during the launch for Malaysian market only.  The retail price is SGD$36 or RM110.

For those of you who would like to have a preview of the book, please click here. 
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Review of Metaphors and Social Identity

22/4/2018

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Christopher A. Porter from Ridley College, Melbourne, recently reviewed my book on Metaphors and Social Identity Formation in Paul's Letters to the Corinthians. His review is published by Review of Biblical Literature in April 2018.

Porter comments that my work "presents a robust social-scientific assessment of metaphorical usage in the Corinthian correspondence, and in this scope the volume admirably succeeds in its goal of looking at metaphor in the Corinthian corpus."

He further acknowledges the positive contribution of this book towards the development of methodological framework: "...the contributions Lim has made to the methodological framework for analysis of metaphor...helpfully extend the assessment of metaphor in a social-scientific frame."
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Finally, Porter believes that my book "will undoubtedly provoke further investigation of metaphor use in identity formation in the Corinthian correspondence and elsewhere. This work is a valuable resource for anyone considering the social-scientific analysis of metaphors and their use in the Corinthian correspondence."

Overall, the review by Porter on my work is generous and encouraging, his critique on the weaknesses of the book is fair and courteous, and his comment on my methodological framework for analysis on metaphor is positive and welcoming.
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Metaphors and Social Identity Formation: AUTHOR'S STOCK SOLD OUT

2/10/2017

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I am very pleased to inform that all copies of my recent publication (Metaphors and Social Identity Formation in Paul's Letters to the Corinthians) that are in my stock have all been sold. 

I would like to thank everyone in Malaysia for your continuous support for my work and ministry. 

For those who are still interested to purchase the book, please click here for options of how to order the book. I will not be holding anymore stock in future.

My other publication, Jesus the Storyteller: Hearing the Parables Afresh Today, is still available at RM45 per copy. Please get in touch with me if you are keen on purchasing this book.

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Logos Sale for October plus Free Book

2/10/2017

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For the month of October, Logos Software is having a very good sale on selected reference works published by Yale.

In addition, the free book of the month on offer is the commentary on Romans in the Anchor Yale series by Joseph Fitzymer, with options to purchase a couple more commentaries on Habakkuk (by Francis I. Andersen) and Galatians (by J. Louis Martyn) at additional cost of US$2.99 - this is a real deal! 
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Resources on sale include:
1) The entire Anchor Yale Bible Commentary set - you may choose to purchase the entire OT and NT series, or opt for either OT or NT set.
2) Selected works on Jonathan Edwards
3) Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
4) Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
5) and others.

Now is a good time to build your digital library, if fund permits of course. 
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Book Cover for my Upcoming Publication

1/5/2017

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The cover design for my upcoming publication has been finalised by the publisher, Pickwick Publications. The book, Metaphors and Social Identity Formation in Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians, is due to be published in the middle of the year.  I will provide further details of the book in the weeks to come.

I am very pleased that I am able to use a photograph that I took when I visited ancient Corinth in 2015 for the cover.

Special thanks to Brian Tucker, Kathy Ehrensperger, and Bill Campbell for the blurbs. 
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Grant from TRS assists in Research and Publication

1/11/2016

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Theological Research Scheme (TRS) aims to assist Malaysian scholars by providing modest research grants towards their research and publication. In September this year, I signed a publishing contract with Wipf & Stock Publishers where I will be contributing an essay, “The Fellowship of Christ’s Suffering: Suffering and Identity Formation in Philippians,” to be included in a volume titled Suffering in Paul edited by Siu Fung Wu, an Australian New Testament scholar. 

​Our theological institutions have somewhat limited resources where many specialised academic books are not available. These books are expensive (no thanks to the unfavourable exchange rate) and our financial resources are limited. Subscribing to digital access is beyond the means of our institutions. This means that our research may, at times, be frustrated because of limited access to books that are needed, unless we travel overseas to visit some of the better theological libraries.
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​This is where TRS comes into the picture by providing the much needed research grants for scholars like us.  The trustees of TRS approved my application for a grant to purchase a total of ten monographs on Philippians as seen in the photo above that are currently not available in our library. Upon the completion of my essay, all these books will be donated to the library of Seminari Theoloji Malaysia where I teach with the hope that these resources will be made available for other students, researchers, and the wider community. This is where TRS not only serves to help local scholars in their research and publication but also contributes to building up the modest resources we currently have.
 
Our long year-end vacation has just started. Until the next academic year begins in January, I will busy working on my essay for the next couple of months, and I hope to have a rough draft ready by the end of the year.

​Many thanks to TRS for their contribution, and to all the donors who have contributed to this scheme that makes my research possible.
 
For more information on TRS, please visit their website by clicking here.
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    I am a Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Director of Postgraduate Studies, and the founding Director of the Centre of Bible Engagement at Seminari Theoloji Malaysia. You can find out more about me by clicking here. 


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