2016-March/April

In The Beginning

March 1, 2016

March / April 2016 Listen to audio: “Do this in remembrance of me” (1 Corinthians 11:24 NASB). These words of our Lord through the Apostle Paul remind us of the importance of Jesus’ death and resurrection and the privilege and responsibility we have to remember them by celebrating the Lord’s Memorial. By his death as a perfect man, Jesus secured redemption notonly for the faithful church but for all mankind. Jesus’ resurrection demonstrated both God’s acceptance of his sacrifice and the power God would employ to fulfill all of His promises to the […]

Our Lord’s Last Seven Days Jesus’ Example

March 1, 2016

March / April 2016 “For consider him … lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (Hebrews 12:3). Joe Megacz Listen to audio: On Thursday, April 21st, the footstep followers of Jesus will meet together to commemorate the Lord’s Memorial. On that night we should feel a depth of spirituality and closeness to our Lord unmatched in any of our other experiences throughout the year. Contemplating the events of our Lord’s last seven days on earth serves as an excellent prelude for our meditations on April 21. Let us keep […]

Riding Into Jerusalem

March 1, 2016

March / April 2016 Presenting the Messiah “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zechariah 9:9 NASB). Douglas Rawson Listen to audio:  The last week in our Lord’s ministry is a most important week because salvation for us and mankind depended on the successful completion of this week. Our Lord knew this. He […]

The Memorial

March 1, 2016

March / April 2016 “This do in remembrance of me (Luke 22:19). Chris Kuenzli Listen to audio:  Remembering our Lord When we partake of the Memorial each year, there are two aspects to this simple and symbolic feast. The first is that every year we partake, we again commemorate the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. This thought is contained in the Apostle Paul’s statement in 1 Corinthians 11:26, “For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till […]

News and Views

March 1, 2016

March / April 2016 Religious Listen to audio:  The City Harvest Church (CHC), which had a congregation of 33,000 followers, got embroiled in one of the biggest corruption cases in Singapore’s 50 year history, when its founding pastor Kong Hee and five of his senior staff were charged with misuse of church funds. Singapore’s District Courts found all six guilty of acting dishonestly in conspiring to misuse church’s funds running into millions of dollars. Kong Hee was found guilty of secretly funneling $18 million (U.S.) dollars of the church’s funds into sham […]