Written in 2009 PAUL’S REQUEST FOR PRAYER FOR HIMSELF Dear friends, A few days ago, during my devotions, I departed for a day from my usual Bible reading practices to do an analysis of the requests for prayer for himself made by Paul. I think the results are very significant. I …
January 2008 FINDING OUR THRILLS FROM GOD In a TV-Saturated culture My wife Nelun and I spent two days at the beach at the beginning of this year (2008). It was a great break after the rush of Christmas. We try to do this at the start of each year. And we …
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 …
Written in May 2000 Praying for Sri Lanka: “We do not know how to pray” ajith Fernando In a war situation we will often find that different Christians are on different sides praying earnestly for totally opposite solutions. I found this to be the case when I visited South Africa and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia …
GENIUS AND GRACE Ajith Fernando Some years ago I read a fascinating book called Genius and Grace by Dr. Gaius Davies (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992; I believe the book has been revised as published as Genius, Grief and Grace). Dr. Davies is a consultant psychiatrist at King’s College Hospital in London and …
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 …
August 2009 Note: There are many passages in the Bible that talk about curses. Some Christians find them are so troubling that they tend to ignore them or reject them as not applicable for today. If we believe that all scripture is inspired by God, we cannot ignore unpleasant passages found in the …
Grace mediated through OTHERS I am on a two-day break with my wife. I was thinking about the joys of thirty-six years of marriage and realised afresh that the greatest blessing to me has been that Nelun has been the principal human medium for receiving God’s grace in my life. This set me …
Published in Anchored in the Storm: Faith at Work in the Trials of Life, edited by Irene Howat (UK: Crusade for World Revival, 2001). GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY AMIDST TURMOIL Ajith Fernando When Sri Lanka experienced its first of many recent violent uprisings in 1983 the truth that God burned into my heart more …
August 2013 READING BIBLICAL DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS Reading the writings of some outstanding biblical preachers had a marked influence on my life as a young person. I had several favourite authors. Let me mention a few of them: F. B. Meyer, G. Campbell Morgan, A. T. Robertson, John Stott, Leon Morris, F. F. Bruce …