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 …
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 …
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 …
June 2011 WE HAVE WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR Ajith Fernando For over 25 years my wife and I have been labouring to get people to understand the meaning of the Christian life so that, receiving God’s grace and love, they could be holy, loving and joyful people. This has been a …
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 …
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 …
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 …