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We live in an an age where success is all about sound bytes. It is about being seen, being heard and being recognized. We want to be ‘seen’ busy. We want to be where the ‘action’ is.We live and believe in ‘aspirational’ christianity and so all what we ‘spiritually’ are is put on Face Book. [...]

A friend sent me this post and I was instantly challenged by this African pastor’s prayer. This is a lifestyle creed and may God grant us grace to ‘say’ it and ‘live’ it The Fellowship of the Unashamed I am part of the “Fellowship of the Unashamed.” I have Holy Spirit power. The die has [...]

The God on the Mountain is still God in the valley. When things go wrong he’ll make things right

Everybody said that anybody could do The important things somebody should do Everybody knows that anybody could do All the good things that nobody did Well the preacher came to me and said what I ought to do If I wanted to make my religion true He’d do it himself but he really didn’t have [...]

I have been reading Charlotte Elliot’s famous hymn, Just as I am without one plea all this week and I intentionally took time to sing the hymn and reflect on it as well. I have been richly blessed by the words and its capture of a deep spiritual experience. Hymns are simple and yet profound. [...]

Bible study prepared by Samuel Thambusamy A husband should love his wife as much as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. He made the church holy by the power of his word, and he made it pure by washing it with water. Christ did this, so that he would have a [...]

Read: Mat 22:35-40  One of them was an expert in the Jewish Law. So he tried to test Jesus by asking, “Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?” Jesus answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second [...]