MANY. MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS IN SECOND GRADE, AT ST.THOMAS’ PREP., SCHOOL IN COLOMBO, I LEARNT A POEM FROM THE BOOK THAT WAS ASSIGNED FOR US FOR ENGLISH. I’VE FORGOTTEN MOST OF WHAT I WAS TAUGHT TO US KIDS AT THAT TENDER AGE, BUT THIS POEM HOWEVER, AT LEAST PART OF IT, HAS […]
“…I SAW UNDER THE ALTAR THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND FOR THE TESTIMONY WHICH THEY HELD: AND THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, HOW LONG, O LORD, HOLY AND TRUE, DO YOU NOT JUDGE AND AVENGE OUR BLOOD ON THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH?” – […]
“THERE WAS A CERTAIN RICH MAN, WHICH WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND FINE LINEN, AND FARED SUMPTUOUSLY EVERYDAY.” – Lk. 16:19. Sri Lankans living in its metropolis live the good life bursting at the seams! It is indeed the best of times for Colombo’s rich and well to do. Every time I drive into Colombo […]
” GOD IS….. LONGSUFFERING TOWARDS US, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.” – 2 Pet.3:9. Countless numbers of refugees from Africa and the Arab countries have perished in the Mediterranean in the recent past. But the world will never forget the image of three year old Aylan Kurdhi […]
“AND THE HARP, AND THE VIOL, THE TABRET, AND PIPE, AND WINE, ARE IN THEIR FEASTS: BUT THEY REGARD NOT THE WORK OF THE LORD, NEITHER CONSIDER THE OPERATION OF HIS HANDS. THEREFORE MY PEOPLE ARE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE: AND THEIR HONOURABLE MEN ARE FAMISHED, AND THEIR MULTITUDE DRIED UP […]
” NOW I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN MARK THEM……AND AVOID THEM…. WHO BY GOOD WORDS AND FAIR SPEECHES DECEIVE THE HEARTS OF THE SIMPLE.” – Romans 16:17 & 18. In this ‘dog eat dog world’ where everyone is hungry for success, even the church has not been spared from the scourge of such slick, smooth operaters; […]
” …..FOLLOW ME, AND I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS OF MEN.” – Matt: 4: 19. “Poachers will be shot” was the latest warning issued by our Prime Minister Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe, to Indian fishermen engaged in illegal fishing in Sri Lanka’s territorial waters. This and a plethora of other such warnings have fallen on deaf […]
” ….UPON WHOSE BODIES THE FIRE HAD NO POWER, NOR WAS AN HAIR SINGED, NEITHER WERE THEIR COATS CHANGED, NOR THE SMELL OF FIRE HAD PASSED ON THEM.” – Daniel 3: 27. When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into the fire for their faith, and later taken out by the King’s decree,-the great marvel […]
“FOR YOU HAVE POSSESSED MY REINS: YOU HAVE COVERED ME IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB…..I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE…My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously created…..Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unperfect; and in your book all the members of my body were written, which […]
“AND EVERY ONE THAT WAS IN DEBT, AND EVERY ONE THAT WAS DISCONTENTED, GATHERED THEMSELVES UNTO HIM; AND HE BECAME A CAPTAIN OVER THEM:” – 1Samuel 21:3. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” so goes the saying! And it was so with David too. He embraced with open arms all those who were rejected […]