Archive for Editorials

July – August 2010

“The men don’t get it.” This clever slogan advertising a credit card exclusively for ladies certainly expresses a distinctive difference between the genders. We men really do not understand women. They are emotional, irrational, and impossible! We fret when they cry and wonder why the tears seem to gush out so easily. As my wife has [...]

March – April 2010

Once I was asked to speak with a young man who had loads of questions about Christianity. He was well read and had many objections. His friends were not able to entertain all his tough questions and thought that since I was teaching Christian Apologetics, I could be of help. So I sat him down [...]

January – February 2010

The point about healing is not the healing itself. Luke 17:11-19 tells us about the ten lepers who were blessed for their faith. They had leprosy, a disease for which there was no cure. It was like a slow death sentence – an arm now, a leg or ear later. Everybody would have told them [...]

November – December 2009

Life in this world is unfair and inhumane. Humans will continue to enslave fellow humans. There will be slaves of sexual exploitation, slaves of racial discrimination, slaves of economic oppression, and slaves of the poverty trap. Of course, we can also be slaves to wealth, pleasure, and power. At the risk of sounding simplistic, all [...]

September – October 2009

This issue is not just about being single or married or being in a relationship. It is not just about the frequently obsessive sexual tensions that singles who seek to be spiritual and God-honoring face by themselves or with others. Promiscuity is certainly not a temptation peculiar to them. In fact, infidelity or sexual exploits [...]

May – June 2009

Jesus reserved His strongest words for the spiritual leaders of His day. He put no pressure on the masses to submit to their leaders but instead put the pressure on leaders to be slaves of all. The principle of being servant (the word is “slave” in Greek) to all is devastating to chains of command and [...]