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…
Unanswered Prayers
As a young Christian I heard many amazing stories of people whose problems were solved by God instantaneously and how God actively changed the world around them to open doors for their ministry. I believe many of these stories are true and God does work wonders to extend His Kingdom and Glorify Himself. However, as…
Perseverance
I walked into the chapel service at Talbot yesterday, guess who was the speaker??? Michael Chang! He is currently a MA student here at Talbot. Since I am a sports nut and specially love tennis I spent sometime personally chatting with Michael after the chapel service. If I have to summarize Michael’s sermon in few…
Rumors
A young lady was bubbling with excitement to describe her boyfriend to her grandmother. Just to make the conversation interesting she asked her grandmother “what do you call an intelligent, good looking, sensitive man”? The wise grandmother answered: A rumor. Well, I do not think I can argue or even comment on that in this…
Taking Risks
Peter is one of the most interesting Characters in the Bible. I know that many label Peter as an emotional and hasty man, but I think there is something wonderful about Peter that makes the stories of the disciples very colorful and eventful. Without Peter I think the disciples would have been just a bunch…
Spiritual Sinkholes
We live in a very strange world, a world where appearance is given more importance than essence; impressions have become more important than the inner reality. ‘How you look’ is more important than ‘who you are’; and if you closely follow the commercials the message is: “how you look is not just important but it…
Busyness
Someone once said “My calendar is so packed with things to do that if something goes wrong today, I cannot worry about it at least for the next five days because of one simple reason “NO TIME”. Sounds familiar??? Well, let’s face it; we live in a world full of busy people, it’s hard to…