Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?” (Matthew 26:53-54 NIV) Powerful words of Jesus and especially a phrase which stands out:’ DO […]
When we experience pain. When we experience betrayal. When we experience failure. When we experience the worst season of our lives. Worse than the experience itself is feeling that our circumstances has choked us and the people in our lives are responsible for everything we have experienced. This feeling can lead to bitterness. Anger. […]
It’s not fair. It is unjust. It is painful. The agony of injustice is more painful than any physical attack or verbal abuse. Ask Joseph. Genesis 39. Sold as a slave. By his own brothers. In an act of jealousy. Thrown into prison. By his own boss. In an act of spurned lust […]
“Paul and Barnabas went to the Jewish synagogue and preached with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks became believers. Some of the Jews, however, spurned God’s message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas. But the apostles stayed there a long time, preaching boldly about the […]
“I am the bread of life… This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.” JOHN 6:48-50 NRSV Well-known author Eugene Peterson wrote a book entitled, Eat This Book, which encourages every Christ-follower to the vital practice of meditating on God’s Word daily. He draws […]
Plans. We love making it. We deliberate on it. We process it. We outline it. We also worry about it. We lose sleep over it. We fight over it. That’s because it is OUR plan. We are the sole creators and custodians of our plans. But the psalmist has a greater realization for us: “The […]
We flip or scan our Bible to the Book of Daniel and we discover a man who experienced and interpreted uncommon dreams. Dreams that unraveled the secret lives of great leaders. Dreams that gave a glimpse of the destiny of kingdoms. Daniel the uncommon dreamer was an uncommon man because of a few uncommon qualities(Daniel […]
I guess I was naive. I expected Biopics to be historical documentaries. Then I expected the same with biographies. I lived in an idealistic world where biopics and Biographies presented the real lives of people. As most Biopics had this interesting sentence at the start of the movie: Based on true events. But the more […]
Prologue They are everywhere. You find them on your street corners. School campuses. College canteens. Office cubicles. Everywhere. Some are students while others are teachers and professors. Some are college dropouts while others are corporate team leaders or businessmen. They are everywhere. They are hair stylists, graphic designers, air hostesses, actors, sportspersons, and choreographers. They […]
Thomas Edison. Martin Luther King Jr. Wright Brothers. Nelson Mandela. Mother Teresa. What was one quality common among all of them? They decided to do things differently. They broke the status quo. They challenged the existing rules of the game(in a good way!) In the 21st century, they are called game-changers. People who changed the […]