Category: Fuel for faith

Let me invite you to a journey, a journey back in time (like traveling back in a time machine), lets rewind human history by 2000 years to witness the most significant event in human history that has changed the destiny of mankind more than anything else that has ever happened or taken place. Jerusalem was…

“In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him” says Dereke Bruce. When I first read this quote I laughed and thought that this was really funny, but then I realized maybe it’s a timely reminder for those…

“That’s not fair”, is a phrase we often hear both from kids and from adults. During the last few months I was forced to think of our idea of fairness and how we are blinded and sometimes enslaved by our faulty idea of fairness. There could be many reasons why fairness is almost impossible here…

“There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed” says Frank Buchman. Every time I see a commercial of World Vision or other Christian organizations that serve the less privileged people in Africa, India and other third world nations I am much moved and often wonder if anything could…

“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…

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…

“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…

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, 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…

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…