Is April fool permissible for Christians?

“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices” Colossians 3:9

One day as Rev. Dwight Dobson was teaching a class on ethics and told his students to list five occasions which they think it is permissible to tell a lie. Soon all of them got to work and each one of them submitted a paper, with a list of 5 occasions, where it is permissible to lie.

There were two German students (they are brothers) seated in a corner. One of them with a smile on the face, submitted their paper. The following are the five occasions they believed it is permissible to lie.

1st Occasion: Never

2nd Occasion: Never

3rd Occasion: Never

4th Occasion: Never

5th Occasion: Never, Never, Never, Never!

My dear friends, do you get my point? Some of us spend our Christian life with lies. Some of us never lie, but on 1st of April we tell a lie thinking it’s alright to joke. We think it’s funny to play the fool out of others. Thus putting our old self and giving a foot hold to Satan. But the author of Colossians say, not to lie to each other since we have taken off our old self with it’s practices. Do you take the word of God for a joke? Think about it.

Yohan Perera 30 March 2009 Contemporary issues april fool, Contemporary issues No Comments

How to beat habitual sins?

Introduction

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann

You are reading this article probably because of one of the 2 reasons listed below.

You are struggling with a habitual sin in your own life or,
You want to help some one else to receive freedom from habitual sin

In both cases it’s important to know what we are going to deal with. Therefore let me give you a short definition of what habitual sin is and how it differs from sin we know about. The majority of sources I referred to – define “habitual sin” as,

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Yohan Perera 18 September 2008 Contemporary issues habitual sin 1 Comment

A Preacher’s voice against abortion

I think abortion is one of the most controversial issues debated over by everyone in the world toady. There are many views regarding this matter but let us take a biblical view, as Bible is our measuring rod. According to Wikipedia an abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. The spontaneous expulsion of a fetus or embryo before the 20th week of gestational age is commonly known as a miscarriage. Induced abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus by medical, surgical, or other means at any point during human pregnancy for therapeutic or elective reasons. Click here to read the rest of, A Preacher’s voice against abortion

Yohan Perera 28 August 2008 Contemporary issues abortion, Articles 1 Comment