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Choose Life

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Moses led the Israelites through the wilderness for forty years . They'd been tried , tested , and come out on the other side . But before they entered the promised land , Moses reviewed the covenant they'd made with God . He reminded them of all God had done for them and encouraged them to teach their children to hold these experiences close to their hearts . Moses called the Israelites to choose God and not fall away . They could choose life with God , or they could choose disaster and death . It was their choice . Choosing to love , obey , and cling to God is the life Moses sets before them . This life promises blessing , descendants , and a future . In the big and small decisions we face each day , we're called to choose life . We usually know right away when we've made the wrong decision ; it can feel like little death . But God calls us to...

Bringing smiles to lives!

Generally life gives us what we never expect. Sometime it makes us cry and sometime unfolds unexpected happiness and joy. We are betrayed from those whom we trust the most. Tears are gifted from our loved ones. Anything can happen anytime in this planet dramatically. In this race where brothers are not for brothers and fathers seek their own pleasures, how can we find a shed a place of rest, an assurance of belongingness? Every individual has been racing for an answer, pilgrims have walked very far for the seek of assurance and an eternal happiness, but alas! No one has found the assurance, "I am the life, come to me oh! heavy ladened" and the eternal happiness with God. Every now and then, a life is being destroyed, children are being fatherless, girl child are being killed. Life is peculiar but in this peculiar life if we pay effort to see a father filled with limitless love and care, we can know we have reasons to smile and opportunities to add smiles to lives. I know ...

Arise and Depart!

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T he hour is approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to all "Arise, and go forth from the home in which you have dwelt, from the city in which you have done your business, from your family, from your friends. Arise and take your last journey." And what know we of the journey? And what we know of the country to which we are bound? A little we have read thereof, and somewhat has been revealed to us by the Spirit; but how little do we know of the realms of the future! We know that there is a black and stormy river called "Death." God bids us cross it, promising to be with us. And, after death, what comes? What wonder-world will open upon our astonished sight? What scene of glory will be unfolded to our view? No traveller has ever returned to tell. But we know enough to of the heavenly land to make us welcome our summons thither with joy and gladness. The journey of death may be dark, but we may go forth on it fearlessly, knowing that God is with u...

YESHWANT LOHAR, THE ABANDONED BOY!

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Yeshwant Lohar  On the 27th of February 2014, I was busy in my office. A woman named Mina Lohar came to me with a request of accepting a child in our home. She is a widow and worship's with us in the Kamlabagan Church of Christ. She is around 65 years old and goes to the tea garden to pluck tea leaves for her living. It was really heart touching to know the love of Jesus reflected to this sister. She has a hut made up of hey and bamboo which hardly consists two persons. But I was amazed to see the rooms she had in her heart. While she was on her way back from the worship service, she encountered a boy weeping by the side of the road. He seemed to be new to the place and was very afraid even to talk with this sister. But when sister Mina came near him and gently touched his head and with a soft voice and asked him about himself, he gathered the daring to speak to this lady and moreover he felt like I am safe with her. The first word that this boy spoke out was "I am hung...

What should we provide to our Children? Part - II

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# 2. Provide TEACHING, GUIDANCE & INSTRUCTION "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6)  Training our children in the way God wants them to be trained is the most important step we can dare. Most of the time our children are well equipped with every standards of the world but in the Christian aspects they are nothing more than just the name "Christian". I personally have witnessed Peter, John & James spending their time in the liquor shop, a big cross on the neck, a Cross tattoo in hand but found drunk in the bar. Mary has recently aborted a child. Martha is a single mother. Jonathan & Jennifer are in a living relationship for a month, after one month same Jonathan accompanies with Juli and Jennifer with another bla bla... Why all of us encounter this problem? Here is an answer: "O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own st...

What should we provide to our Children?

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I guess most of us have got married and have children. We all understand what it means to have children and moreover the joy of being father and mother. Every moment we spend with our children worth more than anything. Every tiredness are gone when we see our children smiling. Nothing can buy us the happiness which we get through our children. BUT children are also the ones who hurt us more than anything in the world. Parents who had a single room where they raised their four children. They had no problem adjusting with the four children in such a small room, happily they were raised, educated and finally they got married now the same old parents starts to irritate and disappoint them. Even they don't have rooms for their parents in a house which has four rooms.  Their father raise them (four) all in a single room but now their four roomed house doesn't have place for their old parents. Not everywhere but in many places I have witnessed old parents are treated as the torn ...

An Update of the Meeting in Bagdogra, West Bengal, India

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Participants in Bagdogra Meeting Greetings to all my beloved brethren in Christ! It is really a great experience to have a family worldwide. In every phase of work we do and have achieved so far, we sincerely thank you for standing alongside with us. Thank you for your prayer support and words of encouragements. Hereby I have furnished the details of the meetings held in Bhuttabari, South Bagdogra, West Bengal, India: 15th - 18th February 2014 On the 15th of February we started our meeting where 150 plus participants had participated from all over North Bengal, some from eastern Nepal, central Nepal, Bangladesh borders and Bhutan borders. This was  fellowship meeting and renewal of minds by the warm affable company of the family of God. The theme of the meeting was "God's eternal purpose for mankind" and many local leaders presented their lesson in the assigned subjects staying within the theme. Participants were really edified and nurtured in Christ. This wa...