What is the race-less gospel of Jesus Christ? Is it new or revelatory? No. It is captured in the Holy Scriptures and offered to us as believers. But we, as Christians, have not been able to accept God’s vision for humanity due to the social realities of injustice, violence and oppression caused by our acceptance […]
During this Lenten season, many Christians seek to draw nearer to God by walking more closely with Jesus the Christ in his sufferings, rejections of appetites and the allure of popular appearance (Matthew 4.11). It is the spiritual discipline of self- denial. After foretelling of his death, burial and resurrection, Jesus shares with the […]
Sovereign God, we confess that You are not controlled by race, that You are the God of all nations and people, that You are not confined to our prejudices. We confess that You cannot be convicted of our judgments, that You are not trapped in our history. You are the boundary of existence, our Judge and […]
Our world relies mostly on the external for interpretation, meaning and understanding. We know what we see and we believe it when we see it. We judge a person based on appearance; we look them over and surmise that we have them all figured out when all we have done is ascribe to them the […]
“We are unfinished creatures– longing, reaching, stretching towards fulfillment. We express these desires for completion in prayer. Prayers articulate our seeking after the best. Prayers give voice to aspiration towards the highest. Everything that is distinctly human gets formulated in prayers: our pathos, our nobility, our creativity. Also interestingly, everything that is disreputable in us– […]