The petition of the Collect for the day is revealing. In praying that God’s merciful ears be open to the prayers of His people, God is petitioned to make them (His people) ask such things as will please Him, so “that they may obtain their petitions.” It indicates the relationship between asking “such things as…

The Petition of the Collect for today, Fourth Sunday After Trinity, is: “May we and all who have been admitted into the fellowship of faith in Christ

The wise teachers of Israel mostly grounded their teachings on the duties and works of charity on the doctrine that: “Behind the poor, Yahweh their Creator and Lord himself is standing.” This means that the people’s attitude to God will be reflected in their attitudes to the poor, or rather that the people’s attitude towards…

The above are the Bible answers to the question of what God requires of a man. The Bible, including the Old Testament, clearly does not project a mechanical and complicated system of rules, ceremonies, and rituals as the basic requirement for man’s right relationship with God.

Envy, which literally means “to look at with evil intent...,” and also called “the Green-Eyed Monster” because it portrays someone who is looking so hard that his eyes turn green, is the uncomfortable feeling that one experiences when contemplating the good fortunes of another.

In view of the petition of the day’s Prayer (Collect) that the “most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtues”, be poured into our hearts, we are meditating on the topic: “Clean Heart Frees.”

Last week, we made mention of many people taking “the grace and freedom in Christ for lawlessness and licentiousness.” This is a very erroneous understanding and application of the Christian’s freedom. Freedom in Christ means freedom to produce the fruits of righteousness through a Spirit-led lifestyle. When a Christian is delivered from the pangs of…

Introduction The theme of love, which we started last week, continues this week with the prayer (Collect) that we may love God with our whole heart and our neighbour as ourselves. Loving God is not exactly the same thing as loving man. Whereas loving man is more of bearing with him, even when most undeserving,…

Introduction TODAY, we pray God to grant that His people “may know what they ought to do, and may have the grace faithfully to accomplish it” (The Collect for the day). From the religious experiences of the people of Israel, a case point of Saul and other Pharisees and Zealots, as well as other religious…

Introduction Reconcilitaion, (katallagē in Greek), is rendered atonement by the Authorised Version of the Bible (Rom. 5:11). It is also regarded as one of the metaphors of Atonement in the New Testament Theology. According to John Stott, atonement “denotes either an action by which two conflicting parts are made “at one” (At + One +…

Introduction The Christian may be biologically the same with any other man, but, spiritually, he is different because he has the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is the Gift for those who repent and are baptised in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38), and anyone who does not receive this “gift” is not…

One major difference between Christianity and other religions is that, while the others are about manís effort to reach God, Christianity is about God reaching out to man. God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, Jesus ChristÖ (Jn 3:16). When God calls people, it is not only to bless them,…