Gods Own Words

“Go and Do Like This”: Imitating the Good Samaritan or the Innkeeper?

Benny Nalkara, CMI The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:29-37) has been one of the centres of attraction of the believers as well as the readers of the New Testament for centuries. Various interpretations of this parable are well received by them. Many interpretations focus on the compassionate aspect of the exemplary Samaritan which […]

Listening to God or One’s Own Spies?

Jacob Chanikuzhy Honey traps are used to black mail respectable or successful people and extort money or other gains from them. Even intelligence wing of governments uses honey traps to obtain secret information from foreign officials. Although most of the times these traps work, sometimes they fail too. Once, KGB (Russian security and intelligence agency) […]

The Areopagus Speech: The Cross-cultural Witnessing at its Best

Benny Nalkara, CMI The Areopagus sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16–34), at the Areopagus, and recounted in is the most dramatic and fully-reported speech of the missionary career of Saint Paul. People from all walks of life stopped and listened to him preaching and he gained a unique opportunity to address the […]

Perverted Gods…

Jacob Chanikuzhy In Greek mythology, Cronus was the son of the god Uranus and goddess Gaia. At his mother’s request Cronus chopped off the genitals of his father and threw them into the sea. A psychotic, he then imprisoned his brothers and married his own sister. As his mother predicted that one of his children would […]

Philip – The Trailblazing Missionary and the Wandering Evangelist

Benny Nalkara, CMI Philip is the first missionary—in the modern sense of the term—mentioned in the book of Acts, and the first person to be given the title of “evangelist” (Acts 21:8) in the Bible. He is first mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (6:5) as one of “Seven Deacons” who were chosen to […]

The Claims our Sexuality Makes

Jacob Chanikuzhy “Go, and have sex,” appears to be the first command of God when it is paraphrased from the perspective of human sexuality. Because, the divine command to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1,28) could not have been achieved by any other means than sex. Thus, one can say that human sexuality is affirmed […]

The Torn Veil

Jacob Chanikuzhy “Good Friday of the Jews.” That is how some call the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In the Old Testament, this is actually the only day the Jews were asked to fast. It was the day when atonement sacrifice was done by the Jewish High Priest for his sins […]

The Gentile Pentecost: Conversion of Cornelius or Peter?

Benny Nalkara, CMI The conversion of Cornelius is often seen as a turning point in the history of the early Church and also in the Acts of the Apostles. Luke the author narrates it three times (in chapters 10, 11, and 15) and stresses its theological and missiological significance of the event. He treats it […]

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