Wonderful News The life of the saved satisfies humanity’s deepest yearnings. The gospel is the wonderful news that the supreme and holy God who created the universe loves the world and has a plan for it. When humanity, God’s highest creation, rebelled against him, the world was subjected to frustration and humans merited eternal …
From my book Sharing the Truth in Love. Ajith DEGREES OF RESPONSIBILITY There is a lot we do not know about Hell. So we must be agnostic about a lot of the details of what is happening there. An important point in this discussion is that the Bible teaches that there will …
WIKILEAKS AND JUDGEMENT I feel that many of the disclosures that we have been receiving through Wikileaks were better left unearthed. Diplomats should have the freedom to air their opinions and express their hunches, before crucial decisions are made, without these going public. However, this is an instructive foretaste of a terrifying disclosure which …
IS IT GOD’S WILL FOR ALL CHRISTIANS TO BE WEALTHY? Ajith Fernando More and more Christians, all over the world, are accepting the belief that material prosperity is the right of all Christians. They believe that God expects them to ask for it and to anticipate it as a sure fulfilment of …
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 …