Western civilization has become pluralistic, secularized, and biblically illiterate. Today many people in the West have little sense of how their lives have benefited from Christianity’s influence, the revivals and the Great Awakenings. The church is now often viewed with hostility or resentment. England is spiritually at its lowest state for over … [Read more...]

The Holy Spirit came 50 days after the resurrection, and 10 days after the Ascension. As soon as the apostles were empowered by the Holy Spirit, their ignorance was turned into light, all their doubts evaporated. The Holy Spirit gave the apostles a variety of gifts, including the gift of tongues which was necessary for them to have ability, … [Read more...]

Many historians hold the view that Western Christianity came directly from Pentecost, or even twenty to thirty years after Pentecost. So this means it would have been the original New Testament form of Christianity. Paul makes it clear that the gospel message he preached was not based on mere human reasoning, and he received it from no human … [Read more...]

In Acts 9 we are told that after Paul’s baptism, he immediately started preaching Jesus in the Jewish synagogues that is He is the Son of God (Acts 9:20). He confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus proving to them that Jesus is the Christ (Acts 9:22). During this time, the Bible doesn’t tell us whether he led anyone to the Lord. Rather, he … [Read more...]

The Bible says that it is God who divided up the peoples of the world into nations, and who then divided to the nations their inheritance. Furthermore, it says that it is God who has determined....the bounds of their habitation and lands. God’s appointment of a nation’s geographical position and boundaries -although may be mystery to us, is … [Read more...]

During the 19th Century Great Britain reached the peak height of world power and domination. It was the much loved and cherished Victorian era and in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s “Diamond Jubilee,” one of Britain best loved poets, Rudyard Kipling, wrote a prophetic poem: God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far flung battle … [Read more...]

If you forget the Lord your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.  (Deuteronomy 8:19) Even the migratory birds are punctual to their seasons. Yes, the stork excelling in the great height of her flight in the heavens knows her appointed times of migration, and … [Read more...]

Today “China a communist nation also realizes what the West is rapidly forgetting, that a civilization is as strong as its faith.” Writes Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, towards the end of his recent book, Civilization, the historian Niall Ferguson  quotes a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, part of a team tasked with the challenge of … [Read more...]