“If I pray aright, God is graciously working out his purposes in me and through me, and the praying, though mine, is simultaneously the fruit of God’s powerful work in me through his Spirit. By this God-appointed means I become an instrument to bring about a God-appointed end. If I do not pray, it is not as if the God-appointed …
The Elect of God
1 Peter 1:1-2 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are the elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood. Romans 8: 29-30 For those whom he foreknew he …
So you think you can be neutral?
There is absolutely no neutrality in any area of life concerning your attitude toward and allegiance to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. If you are not for him, you are ACTIVELY against him. If you say that isn’t true, then you are saying Jesus is wrong in which case you are against him. See, the nature of that claim makes …
Should one repent to be saved?
The gospel call is to repent and believe. It is not a call to “accept Christ,” nor to “ask Christ into your heart,” nor to “let go and let God.” The gospel command is always to repent and believe. The key is you cannot do one without the other and you cannot do either without being quickened by the Spirit …
Praying to a sovereign God
In fatalistic fashion, I’m regularly asked by an anti-Calvinist, “if God is sovereign over all things including salvation, then why pray to Him?”. My response is always, “why pray to Him if He is not?”. I might as well pray to my neighbor or my dog, after all they have just as such ability to do something about my situation …
Are men and women wired differently?
Research says yes! Some people would want to believe that boys and girls are essentially the same until they hit adolescence. They would argue that the hormones are what makes them different. Having majored in biotechnology, I was no different on my convictions. That all changed when I became a father. My little girl who is just 18 months old …
Top 10 preaching mistakes
Here is an interesting list. Over time, I have been guilty of committing all of them. Cramming Skimming Floating Proof-texting Quoting Lecturing Assuming Confusing Spraying Complicating Read more here.
He gave me hope when I had no hope!
I was just pondering today about how privileged we are to have a gracious God who has loved an undeserving people like us. We did not have any hope. Pondering further I began thinking of how would it be to live a life without hope, without any thought of destiny. I suddenly got a feeling of pointlessness thinking – why …
You need to rise up!
I have been wondering about what the world will come to in the next 20 to 25 years. Yes we see strides in technology and medicine. We see every day newer parts of the universe that till today had never been known to man. We see the rise of intellect and intelligence. No doubt that in the next 25 years …
The Gospel is no fairy tale
The preacher after expounding the scripture dynamically to the church on that Sunday morning took a deep breath followed by a sip of water and proclaimed “This!, is the Gospel my dear people. God , yes God, the creator of the universe, supreme commander of the heavenly host, to whom none can compare and whose wisdom no one can match …