Heralds Digest

One of the dreadful curriculum of senior high science classes is the practical demonstration of all the underlying theories, especially when appropriate learning facilities and supplies are not available. Perhaps the unbearable financial burden of these facilities led to the introduction of alternative to practical classes. However, alternative to practical classes are limited in term of their offerings. Human beings learn fastest with full exercise of all their senses. The broken link in the passing of faith from generation to generation is largely attributed to failure of parents in expressing the love of God to their Children. Parents are readily comfortable with alternative to love, substituting love with all that human strength and resources can afford. The misconception about love is that toys and expensive gifts will fill the vacuum. Children can be easily pre-occupied with material possessions bequested to them; they cannot relate with the love that connect man with His Maker t...

The Marathon of Life means to align your desires in such a way that every action and inaction, accomplishment and setback, propels you towards the fulfillment of your life purpose, towards making the world a better place, towards setting an example for others, towards the ultimate dream that your talents were meant to help you achieve. Whether an avid runner or not, life is a race, and even at this very moment, you are running either the Marathon of Life or the Race of Desires. If unsure of the direction of your pursuit, ask a mature person who you have made comfortable enough to give you honest feedback. Like Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Those who are in constant pursuit of the selfish desires that continue to wreck the lives, health and relationships of others would, sooner or later, pitiably succeed in placing themselve...

Fellowship breeds familiarity with grief consequences, if undermined. To avoid strained relationship, many will prefer to throw an artificial boundary, especially when dealing with superior authority. Although, this boundary enables the monitoring of acceptable conducts that guarantee cordial relationship, a bounded fellowship promotes fear. As demonstrated in His Son, God's love is vulnerable to abuse. Christ stripped himself of all His glories, would could constitute a barrier to fellowship with man, and subjected self to the worst of human cruelty. In our relationship with one another, God's heralds have nothing of self to protect when reaching out in love. Perfect love is constantly open for service. Product of grace holds no grudge.

After yesterday's tragic death of Georgian lugar Nodar Kumaritashvili, while training at the exit of curve 16 on Whistler 2010 Olympic's luge track, the spoken fear in the sliding world was that Whistler's steep topography, coupled with the latest technology in course design, would result in a track that would go beyond the limits of even the best sliders. However, in spite of the loss, the Georgian luge team, and the rest of international sliders, seem determined to go for gold. After a bit over two thousand years that Jesus Christ came to this same world to present self as model and the only way to the Father; even in christian circles, many are quick to deny the model of righteousness that Jesus presented to His disciples, claiming Jesus may not be subjected to the same temptation as human being. No matter the sophistication in the present world of business, sport, work, and general lifestyle, winners stick to the Spirit that deny ungodliness and worldly lust, while exhu...

The closest government to the people is mostly responsible for the issuance of building permit. No matter the sophistication and experience of a general contractor, the Building Code provides the legal framework for permitting a change to the existing landscape. Despite the love and sacrifice of the Redeemer to save the sin-ravaged souls of men from destruction, no one can be free from sin without the commitment of the will-power to righteousness. Even after salvation, man's will-power is not lost; and that makes the heart of man the continuous battleground between rival Contractors - the Spirit of God and the Devil. The righteous can only chose to daily relinquish his/her will-power to the Spirit of God through consistent fellowship with the Lord. Until life endures, the heart will remain the centrepoint for the solicitation of permit. And man will always be responsible for the signing of whichever of the permits is awarded - righteousness or sin. The grace cannot act as a blanket...

Emotions were high recently when survivor-children from the Haitian earthquake, and whose adoption procedure received urgent attention, arrived in Ottawa, Canada (and perhaps, the same experience in all the nations where adoptive parents are waiting for their children). More than receiving relief materials, these kids will be introduced into the care and comfort of new parents, not as object of mercy, but as a member of the same family. Children care not for essential things of life (except when parents are deficient), because those are not their responsibilities. Most likely, children are concerned about how to be like their parents. Likewise, and in God's family, children cultivate the conduct and character of God through intimacy. Even in the world that is heavily burdened with needs, God's heralds can retain the identity of Son-ship. Losing this identity can spell doom, and makes life unbearable. So while the world cares for its own, children of God should demand family fel...

The world is gradually promoting the idea of unity government; and the idea is based on exigency, looking at the trend of catastrophic events among nations. Even the recent seemingly co-operation of Iran with the United Nations regarding their Nuclear Program shows that no nation may comfortably function as an island. And there is no fellowship without a Charter. The scriptures say righteousness shall exalt a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Membership by acknowledgment of the word of God is different from abiding in the word of God, which implies consistent practice of righteousness. There is no other identity of fellowship other than righteousness. Denominational branding of fellowship is human concept; authentic fellowship has no physical barrier. It is the connection of every righteous heart to the Throne of God, in constant fellowship with the amazing Redeemer. Let the whole world be stripped of all unrighteousness; and worship God always by abiding in true fellowshi...