Renewed to Honor

I am sure that I am not the only one who here knows what Tetris is. For those of you born in the age of candy crush saga and PS4 , you may not be reading this, and those who are between these ages , be honest, Tetris probably had been your first game, or a game in your first digital toy. This article is a tribute to the game Tetris because it can solve a lot of issues. Here is the first kind. Space management: Tetris is a tile matching game but more importantly it is also a shape matching game. For the sake of those who do not just remember it, here is how it is. You have to place blocks of same colour and suiting shapes to finish the never ending puzzle. For example the is a "T" shaped block and it will not match with an "L" shaped block. But together they could accommodate a "Square" block.  I never found this task useful till recent when we brought a freezer at home. Our fridge had run over with items we had brought on bulk from Costco. The f...

Note: This is a personal opinion only. -------------------- In the past many churches joined together and formed the nicene creed and since then Christianity showed some form of uniqueness and common understanding of what a Christian believe.  In short , a monotheistic religion that belives in a triune God , and Christ as the meditator between men and God because of the redemption of sins through the cross and the regeneration of life by the help of the Holy Spirit. But like all big families when they have sons that carry on the family name there are then multiple families.  Look at the instance the tribes of Jacob, 12 in all, are they all not Abraham ' s children?  Yes, yet amongst them they had so much difference.  Look at the tribe of Benjamin, they  are said to like a ravenous wolf [ Genesis 49:27 ] , quite seen in the life of King Saul, Queen Esther, Paul the apostle or the tribe of Judah,  where men like David and Solomon are. Now , in all this mann...

There is a deep identification of singleness especially in the Christmas season for me and some other single people, maybe its the season or the fest or the love we see in families , we singles go back to our dad or mum and siblings to spend the time ; but some cannot, and some find this even incomplete, why?? We were made for relationship, for those married they even say that every good thing their partner could provide is still short of their ideal, maybe , just maybe we haven't found the right person for relationship. Today, I felt alone , longing for someone and then I realised that I already knew that person ... My singleness is for a season - a season I live with the ideal partner, God , and my lone moments of pain converted to greater moments of worship - worship an act of realising that God is all sufficient.

How you see God's grace Embalm your view of sin and God, if you see grace only as a sinners plea , you fail to see the cross, If you see grace only as God's wrath, You miss to see HIS love, So behold the grace in all it is, For Christ has paid it all. ---- By Subin Abraham Mathew ---- Many often people see grace as a means to cover their sin but fail to see that grace is justice in the form of a cross ; this is exactly what John Newton said "It was grace that taught my heart to fear - and grace my fears relieved (meaning he saw that grace was like a hammer on sin at the justice of God, and in the next line meaning that he saw grace to be an "soft cotton wool" cleaning his sins)

When I was growing up, I was introduced to a wide range of culture and believes, it may have been because like London, Dubai too was and is a pluralistic society although the core religion of Dubai was Islam. Although having been raised in a Christian family, I was given some freedom to choose and find my own believes. Like most people raised in a pluralistic society, I believed in communal harmony and unity of religions. Now, being an Indian also exposed me to the vibrant culture I have at home and this was fueled by my interest in Ahimsa and Gandhian views in life. I too at that age wanted to write “my experiments with truth”. One of the many stories and moral lessons I had learned then, is as follows. <em>Once upon a time, there were five blind men, and they during their usual walk, came across a large elephant in their path. The first person touched the trunk of the elephant and said that it was a huge pipe, the second the stomach and said it was a huge wall, the third the t...

One of the most heard of arguments against the resurrection of Jesus is that the people of ancient times were simple and they did not have the time on advantage of the modern day technology to determine if the risen Jesus was an illusion or real stuff. Recently reading through think theology's blog on the "<a href="http://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/extraordinary_claims_require_extraordinary_evidence">extraordinary evidence</a>" , I decided to write this blog. Sometime ago Micheal Ramsden an apologetic for Christian faith had used this example, and here it is. <blockquote>My friend had a dog and it was very mischievous. One morning it brought in the neighbours pet rabbit in his mouth. My friend was frightened and was helpless to this cruel act his dog had done. The dog had killed the neighbours' pet. So, my friend being a coward as he was took the rabbit out of the dog's mouth and washed the body and dried it, fluffed the hair wit...

 First and foremost do not be alarmed! My skills for cooking are almost null and I will not be handing out any recipes or ideas for making Biriyani. Now you might be wondering, about what in the world I may be talking about! Well the idea is simple and my response to the idea is equally simple. Recently after I had reformed and had decided to get baptised, I kept hearing this thought from my non reformed friends. Although surprised by this idea, I was told that this was not a new food for thought (no pun intended), but actually an old idea that had been floating along for some time. Basically the idea is as follows, One is never satisfied with eating the same kind of food every day and so one tries something different. Probably once a week or maybe even once a month and it could be something like Biriyani,(or whatever exotic food you might think of). So similarly one would be never satisfied in worshipping God the same way so would require a different way of worshipping G...