Rev J N Manokaran

Why Four Gospels?

Diamonds are colourful and beautiful. It could be viewed from different angles, and it is uniquely beautiful form each angle. In the same way, Lord Jesus Christ is more precious than diamond or anything special or unique in this world. To comprehend Lord Jesus Christ is humanly not possible. Yet, four gospel writers: Matthew, Mark,

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Kill desires?

The issue of suffering has overwhelmed many people in the world. Humans are born for trouble or suffering as sparks fly upward. (Job 5:7) Buddha was one among them, who wanted to find the root cause of suffering and annihilate it. Protected from seeing any unpleasant thing by his father, Buddha lived in the palace.

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Vision or survival?

There was a huge global organization that worked mainly among children. In many countries they worked and had helped millions of children to have education, get out of poverty and have respectable life in their nation. In one country they had over 530 projects with about 200000 beneficiaries. Suddenly the government of the nation stopped

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True spiritual life

God created Adam in His own image. (Genesis 1:27) Essentially humans are spiritual beings longing to be in intimate personal relationship with God. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) However, because of sin humans become lopsided personalities. Instead of spiritual life directing human life, many other alternatives direct humans. 1) Spiritual: People who desire to be in personal relationship

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Pomp or Power

There was a Youth Conference held in the central part of India. Two different speakers were invited. One was called a celebrity, came with pomp, and a music team. Usually, he took double the time he was allotted and thus robbed other speaker’s time. With different gimmicks, gestures, and speech with doses of mimicry he

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Different weights

One celebrity evangelist of global fame visited a city. He gave private appointments to few rich people who liberally donate to support his lavish lifestyle. Those rich people came in their BMW to the guest house, met him, gave offerings, prayed, took selfie, and left. One poor old widow came to know about the visit

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