Many of us know about a missionary, Jim Elliot, who went to South America with four other missionaries. He gave his young and precious life cheerfully to God’s work and gained the people of Auca. Jim Elliot considered it was...
"Giving” involves parting with something we possess for the good of others. The more we think we own the things we possess, the more difficult it will be to part with them. As UESI folks, most of us must have gone...
Juan Carlos Ortiz, South American Pastor tells this in his book Disciple: Our words have become like empty boxes. In order to teach my congregation about this I began to question them. When someone said, “Praise the Lord!” I said, “Wait a minute! why do you praise the Lord?”...
My teenage daughter informed me the other day that she had lost her cycle key at home and asked me whether I could help locate it – I immediately switched on my laptop and ‘googled’ for it? It has become so instinctive to use google for any...
The previous issue of CL carried Beulah Wood’s article, “Is There an Elephant in the Room?” We asked her for a further article on how Christians should respond to violence in the home. Again she observes that people may take good values to an extreme. In India...
William Carey was born in Paulerspury village, 8 miles from London. His father Edmund Carey was a weaver and also a School master in a charity village school. His mother Elisabeth encouraged William to read. He developed reading books in his early age....
God loves a cheerful giver (2 Cor.9.7, NIV) This is the source verse from which we derive the term, cheerful giving. The immediate question a good Bible reader ought to ask is, “giving – to whom?” Since this is not a question often asked, the exploiters of...
God gave a set of radically different laws to His people when He carved them out as a nation. The Law of Gleaning Right is an interesting example, a sharp contrast to the practices that we follow in our modern...
Oh My God! The pastor is back on this topic. Huh. . I see this man from a mission agency knocking on my door. Hmm, I see the Treasurer with the receipt book. Aha, I notice the EU Treasurer announcing about the tin at the back’...