Rev J N Manokaran

When Solomon dedicated the Temple, he prayed to God. The prayer provides insights for us to pray purposely. People who pray to Lord should be facing towards the Temple, indicating that Temple as centre of the world. 1) Humility: All people have to go to God’s presence in humility. There is no privileges that world […]

In the olden days, blood tests to find ‘sugar’ level in a person was carried out as a long process. The blood would be extracted from a patient, taken to a lab and put in a basic metallic panel to test for chemicals like sodium, potassium, chloride…etc. Then the reading would be written and sent

The third lunar day of the month of Vaisakha (Indian calendar) is termed as Akshaya Tritiya, a springtime festival. There would be a lot of attractive advertisement before that date from gold jewelers and also banks. Jewelers would state that buying gold ornament will make a person/family prosperous as the gold will ‘grow’. Banks would

“If your children go to school, who will play music in our funeral related functions,” shouted the government official. He refused to give certificate of their caste for those hapless children to get free admission in the school. These men belong to traditional ‘music playing caste’ whose ‘duty’ is to play dirge in funeral functions.

Jehoshaphat is a celebrated king for his adventure of faith in war. The frontline of war strategy was his ‘Praise team’. God miraculously gave him victory. (II Chronicles 20: 1-23) Jehoshaphat did not have the courage or guts to say ‘No.’ In other words, he struggled to please God alone, hence he ended up pleasing

One young person was always aggressive and violent. In the local town he was feared by common people. On one occasion, he murdered a businessman on the main market street. He threated that no one should give witness against him. Police arrested him and was in jail. The police were not able to file a

The high priestly prayer or Farewell Prayer is recorded in John’s gospel. (John 17:1-26) This is the longest prayer of Lord, as he concluded his meeting with his disciples in the Upper Room. This also provides us insight about Lord Jesus’ intercession now seated in the right hand of God. (Hebrews 7:25; Colossians 3:1) 1)

One annoyed Christian mocked with a caption in his Facebook post: A prophet and a dog share pulpit. It was in response to a self-proclaimed prophet who made his Facebook status with a picture of him with his dog on the dais in a spiritual conference. Another also was rebuked for Facebook post; celebrating Holy

Advertisement: A young girl sees a strand of hair in her comb. She is worried. Then her sister steps in and says, “This is dangerous, you have to use … shampoo to avoid hair fall.” Fashion and grooming are very popular among young people. Also, daily we could see strands of hair on our pillows,

There were three friends who were bureaucrats with the government met after a decade. They shared their life journeys, which could be summed up like this. First, “I came up working hard and making sacrifices. Now, I am enjoying life. Good family, good food, foreign vacations, car, comforts…etc. Second, “My father paid a huge bribe