Whenever I start a counseling session with someone, I take the first few minutes to ask a few general questions so I can have at least some basic information about the person I counsel. One of the questions I ask is, “What is your religion?”
The common answer I get is “I am a Christian.”
Then my follow up question is: “So, what does that mean?”
Whenever I think of the Sovereignty of God and how important it is to know the Sovereignty of God for our own sanity, this is the one passage of the Bible that comes to my mind. Continue reading God is Sovereign!→
This is a kind of message that needs to be heard now not only by those who are far from God but also by those of us who profess to know and worship God.
When government and respected health officials tell us what to do, listening to them and doing what they tell us to do is called wisdom because this is a character of a good citizen. Continue reading Show Yourself To Be An Example→
Coronavirus is affecting every sector of our lives. As I told you yesterday, I was supposed to fly to Ethiopia but I had to cancel my flight. And now we all quarantine ourselves in our homes. Continue reading Coronavirus is Not Sovereign!→
I do listen to the news but I strive not to let the news lead my life.
So, what I do is, I listen to the news and I read and study my Bible and I strive to think about what I read/studied all day long.
Today I read Luke 23 and I studied a good part of this chapter. Since it is a relatively long chapter, studying it takes time. Then I went somewhere and I got a chance to listen to the Bible via my car bluetooth. Just beautiful!
I got up this morning and the first thing that came to my mind was Caleb Meakins.
I am glad that most people here knew him and got a chance to express their condolences. I guess, once we lose such a person, that is the only thing we can do — express our condolences, am I right? Continue reading No One Comes!→
The Bible says, “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.” 1 John 3:9