SCHEDULING GOD In a resent testimonial one comment pricked my ears. This person, no doubt with good intentions, said that the church fitted into their schedule and that was one of the reasons they joined. It is commendable for a...
August 2009 Archives
GIVE AND TAKE AWAY? Quite often we sing in church, "He gives and takes away." It is not the way I can picture God. He is the giver of all good gifts, but He is not the one that takes...
DOES EVIL PROSPER? Evil (Satan) has no source of income. It steals from God who is good (Mk.10: 18). God has set the sun to shine over the good and the bad (Mt.5: 45). Only man is capable of discerning...
MAKE DISCIPLES! Jesus instructed his disciples to go to all the nations and make disciples, not saints (Mt.28: 19). Since 1953, when I attempted my first public testimony about Jesus, I was under the illusion that we had to become...
DOUBTING THOMAS Thomas the Twin has been unfairly treated as a doubter. Everyone could and can doubt except Thomas. Yet, he was the bravest and most courageous of the disciples. It was he who was willing to die with Jesus...
RECIPROCATION! It is the idea that when I scratch your back, I expect that you return the favor. Jesus too counseled that we do unto others what we expect them to do for us (Mt.7: 12). He also encouraged his...
ANOTHER SHALL COME! Jesus predicted, "I have come in my Father's name and you have not received me; another will come in his own name and you will receive him" (Jn.5: 43). "To his own he came, and his own...
WORSHIP? Much has been said and written about worship; yet, I am left groping with what it all means? It has become a mysterious question for me. And here is the reason. Worship has become a substitute for what I...