December 2012 LIFE IS PRAYER Ajith Fernando Usually I go to see my mother just before I leave on a foreign trip. Recently, I visited her before leaving for New Zealand. I told her that I was a worried because I had a hectic preaching schedule and was suffering from a …
Excerpted from Ajith Fernando’s forthcoming book: “Deuteronomy: Loving Obedience to a Loving God” in the Preaching the Word series of Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012. THE WEST AND DISHONESTY GROWING WITH REJECTION OF DOCTRINE OF GOD Having grappled with the question of dishonesty in our land, even among Christians, for a long …
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 …
Written in 2007 LINGERING IN OUR RUSHED WORLD Ajith Fernando The past three months have been very hectic for me, and for spiritual refreshment I have been reading the book, A Basket of Fragments by Robert Murray M‘Cheyne (Christian Focus Publications). M‘Cheyne died when he was 29 years old. That is …
WHEN LEADERS MAKE MISTAKES Ajith Fernando In my many years as a leader I have made many mistakes, and sometimes others on our staff have suffered because of those. I desperately pray that those mistakes will not have a permanent negative affect on the staff. Our belief in God’s sovereignty tells us that …
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 …
RESIDUAL ANGER Ajith Fernando A few days ago I realised that Paul used the words “rejoice,” “rejoiced,” “joy,” and “glad” a total of sixteen times in the Epistle to the Philippians. The great Bible scholar A. T. Robertson aptly named his classic exposition on Philippians, Paul’s Joy in Christ. This Epistle was written …
Written in 2007 SOME UNCOMFORTABLE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE Eating with Servants Ajith Fernando Dear friends, Sometimes when we are studying the Bible we come across some statements that force us into some uncomfortable conclusions. This is what happened to me when I was studying the section on the three Pilgrimage Festivals …
WHEN YOUR REQUESTS ARE REJECTED When you are part of a church or organisation, it is always hard when you ask for something and are told that you will not get what you ask for. You may be asking for funding for a project that you are passionate about, or it may …
DIFFICULT DAYS FACING WESTERN CHRISTIANS I have just read an article about the growth of the church in China. Amazingly a key factor in this growth was the terrible Communist repression of Christians and the inability of Christians to get help from outside. The sovereign God used this to superintend one of the …