January 2024 | Conversion: Persecutor Turns Promoter
“Weep for yourselves and for your children” (Luke 23:28). “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).Countless painters have painted the scene of Jesus’s crucifixion or dramatized it on film. There is a natural tendency among many people to regard the cross...Read More
The trial and death of Jesus Christ revealed both the wicked heart of men and the gracious heart of God. When men were doing their worst, God was giving his best. The Cross is the perfect finishing point of Jesus Christ in His act of atonement for the remission of human sin. The Cross is the exact ...Read More
The power of the cross has been proved over the last more than twenty centuries in the world. The power of the cross is the power of love. The strongest emotion that moves and binds families, friends and a nation together is love. The strongest relationship in the world is ‘blood relationship’. ...Read More
The History of Crucifixion: A Glimpse
"For the joy of accomplishing the goal set before Him, Jesus endured the cross, disregarding the shame...Consider and meditate on Him who endured from sinners such bitter hostility against Himself so that you will not grow weary and lose heart" (Heb. 12:2-3).Christianity is the only religion that bo...Read More
Meaning of the Cross: Through the Eyes of the Dying Thief
There were three crosses on Calvary Hill that Passover. One felon died “in” sin, I too was nailed on a cross where I died “to” sin, and the Man in the middle, the innocent One, died “for” sin. Paul had three crosses in mind when he penned – “But God forbid that I should glory, save i...Read More
"Scripture has no stories of women betraying Jesus or abandoning Jesus. His female followers remained loyal." LIZ CURTIS HIGGSContemplating on the women around the cross of Christ, one thought that stands out is that these women - some named and others unnamed - were no ordinary or simple wome...Read More
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18). Apostle Paul makes this affirmation even as he addresses the issue of emerging schisms and groups in the Corinthian church. These schisms were cent...Read More