Tag: View from the pew

THE challenge thrown at Bible-believing Christians is not at identifying what’s good and what’s evil. It’s in discerning the difference between what’s right and what seems like right. The devil has always been in the business of duplication.

IF there’s anyone in the world, who ought to have felt bitter about his marriage, it should have been Adam – the first man ever. He once went to sleep, and woke up to discover two momentous things happened in his life without his knowledge.

DO you know why that problem that presses you continues to pester you? It’s because you have taken possession of it and considered it as your own problem. Try laying it at your heavenly Father’s feet. It’s then that your breakthrough will break out.

WE have enough evidence in the Bible to think that God will ask of the man (that is the husband) for reasons if his family is torn apart. When the first man and his wife ate of the forbidden fruit in the center of the Garden of Eden, we read in Genesis that God looked for Adam. Genesis 3:9 says: Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

REJOICING in hope seems to be an easy thing to do, but Christians are not asked to rejoice in their secured blessings, but in the assured promises (hope). Job 5:16 says 'the poor have hope.'

By Robin Sam A survey conducted a few years ago that I came across in an old Reader’s Digest magazine said parents the world-over gave...

THE problem with self-righteousness is that it puts oneself on a pedestal while looking down upon others. And no one who puts himself on a pedestal can expect his prayers to be heard, because he himself becomes an idol – sort of.

EZEKIEL received a special commission from God. According to that, he was to go to the house of Israel and speak God’s words to them. God told him the kind of people his audience was. The 7th verse in Ezekiel 3 says “for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.”

THE story of Job in the Bible is a remarkable one. The book itself is a remarkable account of the man, who was the greatest of all the people in the East. We do not know for sure the time that Job lived in, although Bible scholars put him alongside patriarch Abraham.

FORMER Indian cricketer S Sreesanth and former outsourcing industry highflier and iGate chief executive Phaneesh Murthy were in the news for their alleged wrongdoings. Their offenses were not peccadilloes, every media outlet worth its news byte reminded us. They were grave crimes, sins if you will.