Have you ever found it difficult to sustain your daily commitment to pray? I know I have, and I also know, from the majority of Christians that I have spoken to, that I’m far from alone in this struggle.
Author: Michael Teddy
Michael Teddy
Michael serves as the preaching pastor at Redemption Hill Church in Trivandrum, Kerala, while also working as a software developer. He has authored two books: Letters to the Indian Church and Come All Ye Weary. Michael lives in Trivandrum with his wife, Cinu, and their two sons
A church is not a gathering of the perfect. It is the gathering of those being perfected. So, when I say that a church cannot be bad, I do not mean that sin is absent. I mean that the church, as a gathering of believers, cannot exist in contradiction to the work of Christ.
The hope of prosperity, or rather the reality of it, is that we can prosper even in the slums of India and be a mighty instrument for His glory all the days of our lives, and we’d have been more prosperous than the millionaire who does nothing more than go to church every Sunday.
It is not enough that one confesses Christ as Lord. His life needs to bear the fruit of such a confession. In short, beloved, the new life is evidenced in a believer’s life because he lives a new way, the Christlike way.
This is a question of murder. For in giving women the freedom to choose life, you take away that freedom from another person inside of her. By valuing one life, you destroy another. There are no two ways about it. Abortion is murder.
It is undeniably easier to be Christian outside our homes. The effort it takes, the humility it calls for and the love that is needed, to be the light inside of our homes, cannot be faked. For this is the real test of our godliness, of our faith.
Here’s a follow-up article to ‘On Wrestling Anxiety’ by Michael, with a few theological pointers on how we can wrestle anxiety.
Fear is a great and powerful adversary that, through the ages and even today, continues to ravage the lives of many Christians! Or is it?
John 3:16 makes no sense if you don’t know the supreme glory of the God who loves, the grace of His begotten Son who was given, the invincible power of the Spirit who quickens us to believe and the unbridled depravity of the man who is offered the imperishable hope of eternity.
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