Pastor Renji George

When we surrender our life to Christ, the first thing happens is our old man gets crucified with all it’s lust (Romans 6:6). Old man cannot be converted, neither it can be reformed or revived, it can only be replaced. Romans 11  talks about two trees. One is a wild tree by nature and the other is a good olive tree. And the Bible says, we have been cut off from the wild tree and grafted into the good olive tree ( Romans 11:24 ). We know the wild tree stands for Adam and the good olive tree stands for Christ. The scripture says these two trees are contrary in nature. When we were in the old tree, we had a different style of life, and the Bible describes it as ‘old man’. The distinguishing character of the ‘old man’ is that it wants to sin. We have another condition in us called, ‘the flesh’. What does it mean to be called ‘the flesh’? It does not mean your skin tissue, as when we refer to a flesh wound. It is also not talking about your physical body as a whole. What it means by the ...

  So, can we look beyond the way Christmas is celebrated today, and find any real meaning, any message for our lives today? It is December…. just a few days away from Christmas…As the days go by, everyone irrespective of religion gets impatient to get into the Christmas Eve. Special lights decorate many houses, shops, town centres and malls along with shiny decorations, and huge advertising boards of promotional season sales. In streets and shops, ‘Christmas trees’ (real or plastic evergreen ‘conifer’ trees) will also be decorated with lights and Christmas ornaments. Shopping centres become busier as December approaches and often stay open till late. Shopping centre speaker systems will play Christmas ‘carols’ – the traditional Christmas Christian songs, and groups of people will often sing carols on the streets to raise money for charity. Most places of work will hold a short Christmas party about a week before Christmas. ‘Father Christmas’ (or ‘Santa Claus’) has become the common...

In contrast to the polytheism of the heathen world with its many gods and idols, the Christian faith centers in one God. This God, however, is revealed to be a Trinity, including the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Another thing to remember is fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) is more important than the gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:4-11). Gifts of the Holy Spirit without the fruit of the Holy Spirit is a counterfeit.

  Thinking correctly about God is of utmost importance because a false idea about God is idolatry. It is much easier to know doctrines than it is to know God - because you don't have to pay a price to know the doctrines.

  Before you choose a religion, you need to know about the person who is centred around (icon) in that religion. Ask yourself, what good qualities you can follow in that leader. Why did he come? How did he live? What did he teach? Where did he come? Where did he go?

During the last hours Jesus spent nailed to the cross, He spoke seven times, and these memorable utterances from the Cross are known as "The seven Words" . Through these seven brief utterances Jesus proclaimed the most profound sermon that has ever been preached.