Habakkuk is a man struggling with doubts and questions – like so many of us. This book shows us to handle such doubts – changing us in the process.
Read more...A rich and respectable synagogue ruler; an outcast and destitute woman… they could not have been more different. But at the feet of Jesus, they became equals: equally needy, equally blessed.
Read more...A terrifying message: the Day of the LORD is near. How can you prepare for it and what will be the final outcome? As relevant today as it was for the original hearers.
Read more...Jairus begged Jesus to come to his house and save his dying daughter. The situation was urgent but delay followed delay. How did Jairus feel as time ran out? We can only imagine. Desperation? Panic? And when the news came that his daughter had died, devastation. Yet Jesus told him to carry on trusting. How can we trust Jesus when all our hopes fail and it seems too late for anything to change?
Read more...The floods have again swept through Sri Lanka in the last week. This time they have been far more devastating. In the eastern province where most of Jeyakanth’s churches (LEFC) are, nearly all the crops have been lost, much of the livestock has drowned and many houses washed away or suffered subsidence.
Ragendrans church at Muthur is one of the worst hit. The whole area is under water, they deliver food parcels by boat. More rain is forecast.
The future of the whole community is bleak. Since the war most …
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