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 …
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 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 …
DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACH THE DEITY OF CHRIST? A book of this nature will be incomplete without at least a brief note on whether the New Testament really teaches that Jesus is God. We have already implied that it does when looking at evidence for the supremacy of Christ. But I have encountered …
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 …
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 …