Why It’s Worthwhile Following God’s Law
A message on Psalm 119:137-144 from Pastor Ajith Fernando. March 19, 2017.
Christian Life
VERSION 2 NOTE BY LASITH Genius And Grace
Late 1990s GENIUS AND GRACE Ajith Fernando I’ve just read a fascinating book called Genius and Grace by Dr. Gaius Davies (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992). Dr. Davies is a consultant psychiatrist at King’s College Hospital in London and a committed Christian. He includes biographies of nine of God’s great servants who …
Worship Elements Booklet
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Complete Obedience
Written in 2010 Complete Obedience. Deuteronomy 28:1-14 contains a list of the blessings the nation Israel will receive if they obey God fully. At the start and end of this section are statements that the blessings are for those who completely obey. In two places in the body of the passage are two …
Seeking God In Crisis Times
October 2011 SEEKING GOD IN CRISIS TIMES Ajith Fernando Disciplines we develop during the normal times help us handle the challenges we face in times of special need. I found this to be true since finding out that my wife had breast cancer. Psalm 27 talks about how David faced a …
Covetousness And Redeemed Desires
From my Book Deuteronomy: Loving Obedience to a Loving God (2012). OVERCOMING COVETOUSNESS: THROUGH REDEEMED DESIRES How do we overcome covetousness? The Christian answer to this question is not simply a negative path of prohibition as could be implied by the Tenth Command itself. Some of the passages we cited above give us …
Sovereignty Prayer And Perseverance
June 2008 Sovereignty, PRAYER and PERSEVERANCE Ajith Fernando Youth for Christ I’m going through what could be called a “traumatic experience.” I needed a visa for a country which has no embassy in Sri Lanka. So I send my passport to the embassy in neighbouring India through a courier. Over …
Cricket World Cup Sri Lanka
April 2011 SUPPORTING SRI LANKA AT THE WORLD CUP I watched the finals of the Cricket World Cup in Nepal in the company of YFC staff workers from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Though we Sri Lankans were sad to see India defeat us, we rejoiced over making it to the finals and …
Sovereignty And Perseverance
June 2008 Sovereignty, PRAYER and PERSEVERANCE Ajith Fernando Youth for Christ I’m going through what could be called a “traumatic experience.” I needed a visa for a country which has no embassy in Sri Lanka. So I send my passport to the embassy in neighbouring India through a courier. Over …
Difference Of Being A Christian
This is an unedited version of an article published in This We Believe: The Good News of Jesus Christ for the World, edited by John Akers, John H. Armstrong, and John D. Woodbridge (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000), pp. 120-138. BEING A CHRISTIAN: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? Ajith Fernando Mahatma …