Published in the Island Newspaper ON Easter Sunday 1999 EASTER: THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY By Dr. Ajith Fernando National Director, Youth for Christ While Christmas is the most popular festival in the Christian calendar in Sri Lanka, historically Easter has been its most important festival. I suspect that the popularity of …
January 2011 Pop Songs and Salvation Ajith Fernando Shortly before Moses died, God gave him a strange assignment. He was to write a song and “put it in [the] mouths” of the people (Deut. 31:19). That is, people are going to be singing this song regularly. The special thing about this song …
April 2003 Bible Trail Conference for Youth of Singapore YFC TALK TWO SPIRITUALITY: CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN The West today is highly enamoured by Eastern spirituality. Thousands of Westerners are coming to the East in search of spiritual realities that they feel the West forsook in its quest for technological advancement. What we …
Prepared by Ajith Fernando, Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka Revised 2008/2009 THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE MESSAGE WE PROCLAIM TO THE LOST THE GOSPEL FEATURE MEETING NEEDS 1 The gospel is the good news of God’s action for the restoration of his whole creation, especially humanity …
TWO STRANDS IN THE BIBLEAjith FernandoNational Director, Youth for Christ/Sri Lanka The primary aim in descriptions of the end-times in the Bible is to help us live faithfully in the present. The Bible presents various strands of end-time events couched in figurative language which are sometimes difficult to harmonize—resulting in numerous …
ARMINIAN? CALVINIST? I, a Methodist, made a surprise discovery of theologically likeminded folk while ministering recently at Welch College (a college of the Freewill Baptists). I was especially enriched by conversations with its President Matthew Pinson who edited the Zondervan book Four Views on Eternal Security. Like me they have a sense of kinship …
Talk given at the Amsterdam 2000 Conference for Itinerant Evangelists in July 2000 THE EVANGELIST PROCLAIMS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY AND CALLS FOR A RESPONSE OF FAITH Ajith Fernando Affirming the uniqueness of Christ is one of the most urgent needs in the church today. Pluralism is the dominant …
May 2010 GOSPEL BASICS: CHRIST IS THE ANSWER Ajith Fernando As we present the gospel to youth, we find that they are looking for answers to many questions. We believe that through Christ they can find the only truly fulfilling answer to these questions, and therefore we seek to address these …
April 2003 Bible Trail Conference for Youth of Singapore YFC TALK ONE THE UNIQUENESS OF CHRIST Affirming the uniqueness of Christ is one of the most urgent needs in the church today. Pluralism is the dominant approach to religion in most countries of the world. And pluralism does not respond well to …
April 2003 Bible Trail Conference for Youth of Singapore YFC TALK THREE CONFLICTING VIEWS OF GOD I remember a time when the bumper sticker, “Smile, God loves you!” was very popular in the West. It was about 25 years ago, and Christians assumed that people knew what they meant when they used …