January 2024 | Conversion: Persecutor Turns Promoter
INTRODUCTIONSome years ago a warden of a reputed Christian institution was seeking an explanation from a brother for intentionally throwing the waste materials into his neighbour’s backyard. The response of the highly qualified believing brother was shocking; “I merely did the same what my ...Read More
Experience of Creation : An Ecological Reading of Rom. 8:19-23
The world is going through a grave ecological crisis. Technological advancement and economic growth, better living standards and changed life style of people is taking a heavy toll on nature. “Mother Earth” is sick due to human’s immature lifestyle. In such a context it is worthwhile to s...Read More
Nature and our environment are God’s gifts to us. When we care for our environment, we honor God, acknowledging His gifts to us with grateful hearts.After he created Adam and Eve, God placed them in the Garden of Eden to care for the garden (Gen 2:15) as His stewards. Similarly, He has entrusted u...Read More
Holistic Health- An Integrated Approach in Healing
The holistic concept in the healing ministry which is distinct from the concept in the alternative medicine, upholds that all aspects of people's needs including psychological, physical and social should be taken into account and seen as a whole.In the ecological concern of the modern physical and p...Read More
‘Care’ was the core word in God’s first commission to man. God took time and created a world that he saw was good and then he made man and put him in charge of it all. “Replenish the earth, subdue it and have dominion on every living thing…..” Utmost care had to be taken in executi...Read More
ADULTERATION OF FOODS – BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
‘Adulteration’ very simply means, ‘to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element; especially to prepare for sale by replacing more valuable with less valuable or inert ingredients or can also mean ‘ to add a chemical substance to food/bevera...Read More
Psalm 29 ascribes to the Lord all power and authority over nature.The Canaanites worshiped natural forces such as wind and fire as their gods. But Israel worshiped The God of creation, not the creation itself. Thunderstorms, lightning, and floods were but means by which the Lord might express Himsel...Read More
ECOLOGY AND MISSIONS GO TOGETHER
When God created man in His image, He mandated him to “subdue” the earth. What does “subdue” mean in today’s world?In India, the Bhopal disaster of 1984 still haunts us more than 30 years after leaks from a pesticide factory emitted toxic gases that spread far over the surrounding ar...Read More