IN-An Intimate Union

I became a Christian while I was studying jazz saxophone at music school. One thing I had to think through as a new Christian was how I should think about my love of music. Up to that point, it’d been the most important thing in my life. Practice ate up six hours a day. I listened to and studied jazz recordings…

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IN - God is Love

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) based his life on the unchanging truth that God is love. From his early years in Scotland to his final days as a YMCA chaplain in Egypt during World War 1, that truth anchored his soul when circumstances seemed to mock any belief in a loving God. One British soldier described Chambers as "the personification of the Sherlock…

IN KIDS COVID

The pandemic has been difficult for us all, but more so for children. Children everywhere have been affected directly or indirectly by the aftermath of the virus. Whether it is a fear of the future, a loss of loved ones, a change in routine, a longing for school, or a lack of socialising - children have it rough. With this…

Covid and Beyond

In 2004 when the Tsunami hit Sri Lanka and many other Asian countries, Ajith Fernando, the then National Director of Youth For Christ wrote the original booklet entitled “After the Tsunami” out of the overwhelming suffering he saw. Later it was adapted and used in the aftermath of the hurricanes Katrina and Rita that hit the Gulf Coast of the…

IN- Out of the Ashes

The “law of the harvest” is easy to understand. Like produces like. As the apostle, Paul writes to the first-century church in Galatia, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (GAL. 6:7).

The same idea was expressed much earlier in the book of Job. One of Job’s friends, implying that…

IN-Catching your breath

I used to sit in the little blue over-stuffed chair in the corner of our room watching him breathe. He was trying to live and trying to die at the same time. Scientists say married couples’ breathing and heart rhythms begin to synchronize after a time. Others may not understand, but you and I know it’s true. When the final…

IN Glimpses of Hope

Have you been struggling lately to make sense of the world around you? The news of the pandemic fills our mobile and television screens, and its hard-to-find hope amidst the rolling dark clouds of death and uncertainty. Psalm 18: 28 says “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.” Now more than ever we need…

IN Stories of Hope

In these trying times, grief appears to be the primary emotion that we are all faced with. Each day, the loss seems closer to home, and we are left bewildered by the world around us. We also perhaps have numerous questions on the goodness of God, and we wonder if we will ever recover from this devastation. These real-life testimonials…

IN - Miracles of Easter

Each year, we seek to reflect the glory of the resurrection in churches across the nation in both the simplest and most extravagant productions. Yet no staged glory can compare with the grandeur that the true story of the resurrection delivers to the human heart. In these pages, adapted from William Nicholson’s book, The Six Miracles of Calvary: Unveiling the…

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