A TEST FOR PENTECOST

As we are in  preparation for the  ensuing  Pentecost, one thing that might miss  our attention is the role that  the Holy Spirit plays in our  day to day life.  No doubt, we are ...

MERCY AND JUSTICE

“Lord, have mercy on us’ is one prayer that is so close to the hearts of believers of all generations. Psalm 51  starts with a  prayer for God’s mercy. When ‘we lift up our...

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

‘No sign will be  given to it  except the sign of  Jonah’ (Mt 16:4). It was  the Lord’s reply to an evil and adulterous generation  that failed to   interpret the signs of the...

ANOTHER MARY

  Abraham was one person who hoped against hope (Rom 4:18) and  for this reason we respect him as the father of our faith. Centuries later Virgin Mary also hoped against hope. She believed  that ...

THOUGHTS ON EXODUS 

  What was  exodus? Was it a  simple act of  the Israelites, with  providential  help,  escaping from the  cruelties of  Pharaoh and his  regime? Or is there  another dimension   beyond what we  see? A...

CORPUS CHRISTY

  See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: One who trusts will not panic (Isa 28:16). See, I am laying in Zion a stone that...

MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?

  It was written  by David, and later spoken by  Jesus. Yet  this  anguished prayer  has a universal appeal. Each one of us, at some point of  time, had experienced a  feeling  of being forsaken...

THIS IS THE JUDGMENT

  What is judgment?  Many  would say it is something going to happen on the last day.  Yet man’s curiosity knows no end and  he  would go any  length to  know  his final destiny. For...

REPENT OR PERISH

  ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were  worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent  you will all perish  as they did’...

NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH

The most certain thing in life is death. Now the most uncertain thing in life is also death, because we don’t know when it catches us. Those few years of uncertainty we spend expecting...