“Christ is building His kingdom with earth’s broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth’s broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and…
Two sides of Lent
“For this Lent, I am just giving up!” said someone who probably was tired of the debate if Christians should follow or practice Lent. I was raised in an Anglican tradition with Lent being a very important part of our liturgical calendar year. Later I spend many years among Evangelical circles and ended up as…
What if you knew?
“Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more… And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less… Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love” writes Philp Yancey in his book “What’s so amazing about…
Experiencing and Extending Grace
“Grace is God’s best idea. His decision to ravage a people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly – what rivals it? Of all his wondrous works, grace, in my estimation, is the magnum opus” writes Pastor Max Lucado. To love someone unconditionally even when they are deliberately running away from us or…
The Parable that perplexed me
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not” says Oscar Wilde. Jesus told many parables (a short fictitious story that highlights a moral or spiritual principle) during his earthly ministry but of all his parables there is one parable that bothered me a lot…
A glimpse into the father’s heart
“If God seems far away, guess who moved?” is an insightful question. The parable of the prodigal son is one of the favorite stories from the bible to both religious and non-religious people. There are many songs, articles and books written based on this story, yet the freshness and relevance of the powerful lessons from…
LIVING or just dying?
“All men die, but not all men truly live” is one of my favorite quotes from the movie Braveheart. Death is universal and there is absolutely no way any human can avoid or escape the inevitable ending of our earthly journey; we will all die one day but the sad reality is that only some…
Humility – Our greatest ally
“A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility” said D. L. Moody. Genuine humility has almost nothing to do with our external appearances; it is the condition of our heart that has the right estimation of self…
Time to Let GO
How many people does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: “Four. One to change the bulb and three to reminisce about how good the old light bulb was.” No matter how good the old bulb was and how long you had it, after it is burnt it is no longer useful to us…
Fast forwarding LIFE
“There is more to life than increasing its speed” said Mohandas K. Gandhi. We live in a world that is obsessed with doing things at lightning speed, in fact a recent study shows that many college students today believe e-mails are too slow for them and they even wonder why people still have land lines,…