Renewed to Honor

We often see dogs looking puzzled sometimes golums but we love to see another person being amazed. It is a wonderful expression.  I had a surprise party recently and I was in the mood we classify as wonder.  Now the idea of surprise however silly or shocking,  it is the presence of wonder that makes us like something.  If there was no wonder in an event we rarely go back to it. But more over the fact of us brooding over an event or a time of our lives we find a pleasure or a cool feeling that brings goosebumps when we think of a time we were caught in the pleasing wonder.  C S Lewis tells in the final battle about such a wonder.  He says it like this, "there is a happiness that makes you serious". Seriously? What could this happiness be about? Is it just a simple joke or does this have something to do with the core of our being ? Is it pride - like in winning a battle? I long to be that joyful then. And this reason does keep me wondering how costly life i...

This is an extract from a mail I had written to my friends and I wish that most of you my readers would get this message too. I want to tell you about a few testimonies that changed my perception of testimonies. Most of you may have heard me say this many times, but then since its that good, I wish your Christmas memories could include this one too.  The first story occurs in a little village of pullad. Now that is in Kerala, and for those who do not know where it is, the place is near kumbanad, and around 15 Kms from Chengannur/ Thiruvalla and some where in the mid point between ernakulam and trivandrum .  SEE IT ON MAP I HAD WRITTEN THE STORY IN A BETTER FORMAT OVER AN YEAR AGO. SEE TOTALLY SIMPLE FAITH.  It is a village more than a town , with rubber trees, bugs and the sweet sound of rain in the woody and leafy region, so it cooler and humid than most other parts of kerala. So, i was here, in a prayer meeting run by a pentecostal group called the hallelujah pra...

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5079756828 Bible Passage 1: Hosea 2 : 14 a Today I would like to talk about the way God works from my life experience and also from the Bible. The context is rather spread out in the Bible and therefore we would look into multiple passages. It starts in one desert and ends in another garden. In the story of Hosea, we have Lo-Ammi (Not my people) and Lo-Rummani (Not loved) the children of the prostitute wife of Hosea being asked to talk to their mother. The situation in his house has come so worse that the children have to intervene in their mother’s life. But does this story have more to do with faith than just a broken marriage? I would share my thoughts about some key elements that stand out in this chapter and relate to my life and the Christian walk. The first thing that is done here is that there is a thirst given in the life of Israel to seek the Lord and this is where we understand that just because we are interested in Christi...

I travel almost all days on the London metro and ever since I started paying attention to the news papers I have been curious of what is mentioned in them. I recently read some disturbing news on the "metro" paper and have been thinking about them. This is first of the series. I call this "Image". Recently, it was shown according to the Metro News Paper [1] that over  343 labiaplasties were performed on minors, some as young as 14 and 9 year olds. The  shocking  fact is not that these girls who this was done needed them, but they wanted them. Reports cite that most of these girls did have healthy body parts but still were looking for a reason to change what they have to what they see. This is called as designer v***na or in some cases "po*n-star-chic" look. Don't you see what is happening here? Creative-Commons (CC) www.ilmarin.info During my travel into  London  every morning at peek hours I have seen women for hours making themselves f...

This is a small note on how to and why share the Gospel. Please be free to comment and add more details. STORY Imagine someone discovered the cure for cancer, and all they did was run into the cancer care ward and dance around. Someone may come and ask him why was he so joyful, but mostly people would be irritated that he was happy in a ward filled with people worried with life. Now what if he went only telling people but did not show the cure in his life or the evidence of the cure? a gospel only in action lacks intelligibility and a message without action lacks credibility - @ krish kandiah Scriptures: (WHY) 1. Matthew 26: 19 ,. John 1: 40 -42, Matthew 24:14, EPh 2: 4-5, Rom 5:8 2. People are watching your lives, so be an example 3. How did you get the gospel?  Romans 10:14 4. What is the gospel? 5. Spurgeon: “Evangelism is one beggar telling another where to get food” Scriptures: (HOW) 1.Influence : You are the salt of the earth [Matthew 5:13] - Don’t Withdraw ...

The Holy Trinity Church in brompton or HTB is hosting this sunday the 18th of November with Ravi Zach as the guest speaker. I have no idea what Ravi would say, but would not miss it, as it is going to be good. Plus, its Nicky's vision, come on Nicky Gumbel, he is far from mainstream! Wait, there is more, Ravi is most likely to be in many service  --------------------------EVENTS------------------------  Sunday at the Holy Trinity Brompton  *9.30am - HTB Brompton Road *11.30am - HTB Onslow Square *11.30am - HTB Brompton Road *4.30am - HTB Onslow Square *4.30am - HTB Queen's Gate *5pm - HTB Brompton Road *6:30pm - HTB Onslow Square *7:00pm - HTB Brompton Road SEE MORE: SERVICES  ---------------------------------------------------------------  and even better, if you like the 5pm or 7pm service, you get to worship our God with Will Reagen.  Join Us FACEBOOK EVENT Subin Your browser does not support the canvas eleme...

one day i may die. so as you. some may live till a ripe old age, other be killed at an young age, some may be caught in the rapture, others will be persecuted in the tribulations. But being a Christian, one thing is certain, that there is one day when our mortal body will be transformed to an immortal one. From that day on new things will happen. You will feel alive and be awake. You will not grow tired nor hunger or thirst. One such day, you may go for war against the accuser - the Satan. On that day you will see the death paying its debt. You may partake in the victory celebrations in the galaxy that day and the days to come. Then may be one day, days and night may cease to exist and time would be timeless. From then on you will live in the presence of the almighty. As you live there, you will see the Father, God of all. You will worship Him because he is there. You will see and know the Holy Spirit and realise that the Father is not the spirit, and the Spirit not the Father. ...