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Introduction “ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (ESV, Mark 12:30-31). We are created by God to receive love and give love. We can experience God’s love and we can love God. Likewise, we can receive love from others and we can love others too. This is the very foundation of Christian life which will be explored in this paper. God is love God is love. He loves us with His everlasting love (Jer.31.3). God’s love is steadfast, everlasting and unconditional. God’s love manifested to us when Jesus died for sinners (1John 4:9). God’s love is self-sacrificing, self-giving, unconditional and unchanging. God’s love for us is portrayed in Luke 15 in the story of a loving Father who ran to his homecoming son with compassion, embraced him, kissed him, gave him a new dress and pre

Jesus : Welcome to heaven. You know it is the year end. It is time for your spiritual appraisal. It is time to evaluate your spiritual walk. You know your manager speaks always to you about your KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and likewise your pastor always speak about KSLI- Key Spiritual Life Indicator. As you know this appraisal is a two way process. I like to hear from you about your KSLI and then I like to give you a feedback. Let us begin, Your pastor thinks you have a great spiritual life. He considers you as one of his best believer. He praises to others that you have good knowledge of bible, you pay tithe, You are able to lead all kinds of spiritual matters. It seems that your pastor feels that you have a great spiritual life. What do you think about your spiritual life? Believer : Jesus I really love you. As my pastor said I have a fantastic spiritual life. I pay tithe. You know many Christians go to the church only on Easter day. But I went to church on most of the

Marriage is one of the most important decisions after your decision to live for God. This study basically aims to understand God’s heart for believers’ marriage.   A.     Marriage is God’s work God established marriage in Garden of Eden. God created male and female. He joins a male and female in marriage. So, marriage is completely a work of God (Matthew 19:4-6). B. God’s heart for marriage If God joins a male and female in marriage and marriage is a work of God, then we need to understand what God expects in a marriage from us. Believers should not marry a person who is worshipping idols. In other words, believers should marry only a believer. This fact we can understand from following passages. 1. Abraham insisted that his servant should not get a wife from the Canaanites for his son Isaac because Canaanites were worshipping idols and they did not believe the living God (Genesis 24:1-8).   2. Isaac, son of Abraham also followed the same principle of Abr

The Lord’s Supper is one of the ordinances or sacraments that instituted by Jesus for the observance by the church. It is known in different names such as “Lord’s table” (1Cor 10.21), “Lord’s supper” (1Cor 11.20) and “Holy Communion.”  The phrase “Holy Communion” is derived from the Greek word koinonia (meaning fellowship) in 1Cor 10.16. Jesus established the Lord ’s Supper (Mt 26.26-29). He commands us to observe it (Mt 26.27; 1Cor 11.25). The Lord Supper is both symbolic and affirmative in its meaning. The Symbolism in the Lord’s Supper Matthew 26:26-30    26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."  27 Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you.  28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.  29 I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from

            God is love. God loves humankind. God wants to save humankind from the sin and restore the fellowship and relationship with them. He initiated a path for salvation humankind from sin. Salvation completely depends upon God and his grace and love. After the sin of Adam and Eve, God instituted system of sacrifice and covenant for the salvation of humankind from the sin. Let us look at details.  What is Covenant?            After the fall of humankind doing sin, God started to work with them to save them from sin and its consequences by making covenant. The Hebrew word used in the bible for covenant is berit which originally means “shackle” or “chain” but it came to use for any form of binding agreement. [1]   A covenant is an agreement by which personal relationships are established. God’s covenant with humankind is based on love and mercy of God. In covenant relationship, both God and human being are bound to deal each other in love according to the terms of agreemen