January 2024 | Conversion: Persecutor Turns Promoter
Perseverance: Key to God's Promises
This Christmas season, we thank God for becoming “God with us.”Think of Simeon, the old man to whom the Holy Spirit revealed the infant Jesus as the promised Messiah. Apparently many years earlier, the Holy Spirit had revealed to Simeon that he would not see death until he first saw God’...Read More
From Perseverance to Perfection
'Aatujeevitham' (Goat life) is a malayalam novel written by Benyamin.It tells the story of a young man, Najeeb, who longed to go to the Middle East to find a good job and earn a decent living.He obtained a visa from a friend and went to Saudi Arabia.No one came to receive him at the Riyadh airport.I...Read More
What is the Scriptural view of suffering? Suffering is the instrument of God to train, to equip, to test, to weigh, to value, to upgrade, and to promote a child of God so that the Divine personality may be established in him/her. It is compared to the metal refiner who carefully refines the material...Read More
Persistence for a Victorious Christian Life
Somebody has said it well, “It is not how you start the race, but how you end the race that wins you the prize.” There are many who start the race very well; there are only a few who become winners. Paul specified, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one rec...Read More
Perseverance in a Pastor’s Life
Perseverance is one of the most important Christian virtues a believer should desire to develop during the course of his/her Christian life. This becomes all the more important in a pastor’s life. It will be significant to look at the various meanings of the words like Perseverance and Pastor to u...Read More
Perseverance, the Secret Behind the Progress of Christian Ministry–Missionary Examples
Often discouragement and disappointments cause the missionary on the field to turn from his call and commitment, but enduring to the end through all the tests and sufferings is the mark of a missionary. If the meaning of the word ‘perseverance’ is persisting in, or remaining constant to a purpos...Read More
Count Your Gains Not Your Losses
Misfortune has no mercy!It strikes all in turn!Life is good to most people most of the time. It is so with us Christians too. We should be deliberately thanking God often for what He has blessed us with! But we shouldn’t forget that misfortunes too are life’s lot. It strikes all and spares none,...Read More