“Every human being is obsessive compulsive. It’s not a diagnosis so much as a description of our common humanity. Our desires get too much attention in our minds and gain too much mastery over our actions” says David Powlison in a very interesting article entitled “Innocent pleasures”. Did you ever wonder why there are so…
Miracles and Love
Did you ever wonder why our God does not do any spectacular miracles to prove his existence and power? I do not know about you, but as a young Christian I often thought that it would be so much easier for God to overwhelm people with a miracle so that they will never doubt him…
Pleasing People
“The disease to please is a form of addiction. Just as a drug addict seeks drugs, a people pleaser seeks approval” says psychologist Harriet Braiker. Most scholars who study human development agree that there is a stage of human development when children look for approval from their immediate authority figures, usually parents, teachers and other…
Risked their Lives
After watching the movie “End of the spear”, I was thinking of all the people I know in the history of the church who lost their lives for their faith. The faith of these five missionaries was so dynamic that they could not keep it to themselves; in fact they knew that the Waodani tribe…
Cast your bread upon the waters
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days (Ecclesiastes 11:1 RSV). We live in a world where such teaching can be very easily misunderstood or misinterpreted. As a young Christian I often struggled to understand the meaning of this Bible verse. It looks as if the Bible is encouraging…
New Year Resolutions
Every time a new year rolls around, I hear people bragging about their new year’s resolutions. This was a big thing for me when I was a kid; I used to make a list of things to do each New Year. My list was pretty long when I was around 10, but it just narrowed…
Time to Reflect
As we come to the last few days and hours of the year 2005 and are ready to knock the doors of 2006, I am reminded of the tragedy of our lives. I know for many of you as soon as you read the word tragedy “you were thinking of the Tsunami, and Katrina…etc”. No…
The Perfect Gift
Can we ever give a perfect gift? I use to spend many hours and sometimes a lot of money to find someone whom I love the perfect gift. But after many years of giving and receiving gifts I realized that we can give great gifts, valuable gifts, expensive gifts but I am not sure if…
Life is Difficult
When our children were small (5 & 3) it was easy to tell them a fairy tale that kept their imagination running, and they loved the climax because it always ended with “and they lived happily ever after” . As all children they loved fairy tales, but very soon they grew older and understood that…
Thankfulness
“Thank you” is a very small phrase and will probably not take more than a second for any of us to say it, yet it is so strange that we do not hear it often. William A Ward asks a very penetrating question for each of us to consider: God gave you a gift of…