24 Nov Enjoying or Enduring the persecution
Suffer for the sake of suffering? Once I led a group of youth to distribute tracts in front of a college during noon time. It was real hot. We were standing under a tree shade. We can see from a...
24 Nov Fashion Designing with a Difference
The word ‘fashion’ has always been viewed with suspicion especially within the religious circles. It has often been associated with immodesty, vulgarity and as a luxury that only rich people can afford. Very often do we hear elders and parents...
24 Nov Questions of A Christian Teenager
Question: It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that there is absolutely no difference between a Christian and a non-Christian when it comes to good health, good job, etc. Christians anyway fall sick just like anybody else. A lot...
24 Nov A Journey Through Eye of the Storm
It was a hot summer afternoon. Lab class for the day was over. Chittibabu started packing up his bag wiping off sweat from his brows. Slowly he walked out of the university department. As the day faded, his energy was...
24 Nov Join the journey of restoration
The Jewish people were taken into captivity for seventy years in Babylon, but in the year 530 B.C. the power of the Babylonian Empire was broken by the power of Persia, and upon assuming supremacy, the king of Persia encouraged...
24 Nov Knock at The Door
A pregnant woman was cut into pieces because she refused to deny her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This happened in 2008 during the persecution of Christians in Kandhamal and other places in Odisha. When we heard this news...
24 Nov Biblical Hermeneutics and the Indian Christian Student – I
Continued from the previous issue May-June 2015 One way is to take a verse of the Bible that is difficult to understand, then compare the critical commentaries which are the fruit of thorough scholarship, to see if they give finality. Such...
22 Nov Persecution in the Early Church
Persecution is intrinsic to Christian Faith. “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.” Tertullian, 1st century A.D. Acts of the Apostles Acts 3 and 4 What happened? Peter and John were arrested Why? Because of Miraculous Healing, and religious leaders were annoyed at their teaching about Ressurection of...