“Love is a verb”, the bumper sticker on the car that sped past me said. That is true. Love is not just a noun, an abstract feeling that we hold, but love means action. But as the car vanished from my sight, the bumper sticker lingered on in my thoughts for a while. One part […]
“Delay is denial”, so goes the popular axiom. We also say, “justice delayed is justice denied.” Though this is true to a considerable extent in a worldly sense, the opposite is true in God’s Kingdom. Some examples from the Bible illustrate this point. Priest Zachariah and Elizabeth were righteous people in a way that pleased […]
“Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy” (John 16:20, ESV). Jesus spoke these words to his disciples about his death and resurrection. But the truth has greater significance than that historical event. He said this […]
God’s will is good, acceptable, and perfect. We should surrender ourselves to his perfect will.
Faith is not just a set of beliefs or the trust that we have in someone. It is also the allegiance to a person. Take the case of Saint Peter for example. What did Peter had to do when Jesus called him? He had to follow Jesus. To follow Jesus, he had to leave his father, the net, and […]
Last week I spoke at the 100th death anniversary of Volbrecht Nagel, a German missionary to the South Indian state of Kerala. Though he was in Kerala only for two decades, the songs he composed are still sung in the churches. They also have made into cinematic music. Some are translated into 21 plus Indian […]
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