“Honor the Lord with your wealth.” (Proverbs 3:9) Christian Giving is a spiritual expression of grace and generosity. Throughout history the Church has excelled in giving for ministry, missions and social work. Even when there was no cash, giving flourished. Giving is not from the abundance of riches, but abundance of heart as the poor […]
Barnabas is an important church leader in the first century church who was generous. 1) Generous donor: Barnabas sold his field and donated it to the Church in Jerusalem. (Acts 4:36-37) 2) Generous to a New convert: Saul met Lord Jesus Christ on the Damascus Road on his way to persecute Christians in the city
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A Christian life is described like that of a soldier wearing full armour for spiritual warfare against Satan and his demonic forces. (Ephesians 6: 10-17) Soldiers could be effective, successful and victorious when they understand their call, role and purpose for which they are involved in this. 1) Conviction: A Christian begins his spiritual journey
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In the Russia-Ukraine war, many Russian soldiers were separated from their battalions. The 18–20-year-old young soldiers begged for life and Ukrainians. The local churches that were organizing food for the people in the besieged city offered them food, who were later taken as Prisoners of War. The churches demonstrated the love of Christ in action
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Tyre and Sidon were dependent for food supply from the region ruled by Herod Agrippa 1, the grandson of Herod the Great. Blastus, the personal secretary of Herod, was approached and he made a peace treaty that would be publicly signed and celebrated. The delegation from Tyre and Sidon shouted the praise of Herod as
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There was an interesting conversation between a hammer and a key. Hammer complained: “I use all my strength to open a lock, it does not.” The key replied: “You bang on the head; I touch the heart the lock opens.” Interestingly, God uses both in tandem to achieve his plans and purposes. 1) Hammer: Prophet
There is one servant of God, who was humble, simple but diligent in the work of the Lord. He always said: “I work for God; He has to pay me.” God was faithful to him, but many organizations and leaders exploited and cheated him. For over two decades, his life was hand to mouth. Then
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Satan not only seduced the first couple to Sin, but he also introduced False Teaching and that he is the First False Teacher, as Father of lies, he is also Father of all False Teachers. (John 8:44) In the Garden of Eden, he subtly spoke with Eve. (Genesis 3:1-5) The six tools in the strategy
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A 37-year-old Belgian man, Gunter Uwents, admitted that he stabbed his teacher, Maria Verlinden (59 years) 101 times. It was revenge for a humiliation from her during his primary school, when he was seven. a child about 30 years ago. (NDTV news 17 March 2022) Interestingly he used to feed the homeless regularly and claimed
Recently, there was a viral video showing a 1500-year-old scroll. The caption was: “The original book of Esther was recently found in Iran by a Jew who lived there. The beauty is everything written in pure gold.” There were doubts raised whether it exists or true or the writings were really that of the Book
