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அத்திமரம் துளிர்விடாமல் போனாலும் அத்திமரம் துளிர்விடாமல் போனாலும் திராட்சை செடி பலன் கொடாமல் போனாலும் கர்த்தருக்குள் மகிழ்ச்சியாயிருப்பேன் என் தேவனுக்குள் களி கூருவேன் 1.ஒலிவ மரம் பலன் அற்றுப் போனாலும் வயல்களிலே தானியமின்றிப் போனாலும் 2.மந்தையிலே ஆடுகளின்றிப்போனாலும் தொழுவத்திலே மாடுகளின்றிப் போனாலும் 3.எல்லாமே எதிராக இருந்தாலும் சூழ்நிலைகள் தோல்வி போல தெரிந்தாலும் 4.உயிர் நண்பன் என்னை விட்டுப் பிரிந்தாலும் ஊரெல்லாம் என்னைத் தூற்றித்திரிந்தாலும Athi Maram Thulir Vidamal Poenalum Lyrics in English aththimaram thulirvidaamal ponaalum thiraatchaை seti palan kodaamal ponaalum karththarukkul makilchchiyaayiruppaen en thaevanukkul kali kooruvaen 1.oliva maram palan attup ponaalum vayalkalilae thaaniyamintip ponaalum 2.manthaiyilae aadukalintipponaalum tholuvaththilae maadukalintip ponaalum 3.ellaamae ethiraaka irunthaalum soolnilaikal tholvi pola therinthaalum 4.uyir nannpan ennai vittup pirinthaalum oorellaam ennaith thoottiththirinthaaluma https://ift.tt/Y...

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தனிமையின் பாதையில் தகப்பனே உம் தோளில் சுமந்ததை நான் மறப்பேனோ ஆ.. எத்தனை அன்பு என் மேல் எத்தனை பாசம் என் மேல் இதற்கு ஈடு என்ன தருவேன் நான் - 2 சோர்ந்து போகும் நேரங்களெல்லாம் மார்போடு அணைத்துக் கொண்டீரே கண்ணீரை கணக்கில் வைத்தீரே ஆறுதல் எனக்கு தந்தீரே உடைக்கப்பட்ட நேரங்களெல்லாம் அடைக்கலம் எனக்கு தந்தீரே தடுமாறும் வேளையிலெல்லாம் தகப்பன் போல சுமந்து சென்றீரே பலர் சபித்து என்னை தூற்றும்போதெல்லாம் என்னை ஆசீர்வதித்து உயர்த்தி மகிழ்ந்தீரே உம் உள்ளத்துக்குள் என்னை வரைந்தீரே இதற்கு ஈடு என்ன தருவேன் நான் https://ift.tt/YdfyzLE from Umn ministry https://ift.tt/aX1BUeD via IFTTT

Something Fake and Wicked This Way Comes

October 27, 2022

When our Halloween celebrations domesticate evil, we often miss a chance to see true darkness through the light of Christ. Last October, my three-year-old developed an attachment to our neighbors’ Halloween décor. On our frequent walks to visit the enormous inflatable cat, I fielded questions about other yard displays. When we passed a house featuring plastic tombstones with corpses climbing out of the ground, I wasn’t sure how to answer the question “Mom, what does that mean?” Another mother recently shared on Twitter that her neighbors have erected an eight-foot-tall zombie skeleton dangling a terrified child figurine upside down by his foot. She asked, “How scary is too scary for Halloween yard decorations?” It’s a question I share. But behind it is another important question for Christians to ask: Why are so many people so fascinated with evil and death? Americans spend 10 billion dollars annually on Halloween. In a culture that usually ignores death and dismisses the supern...

Died: Gordon Fee, Who Taught Evangelicals to Read the Bible ‘For All Its Worth’

October 27, 2022

A New Testament “scholar on fire,” he believed Scripture was an encounter with God. Gordon Fee once told his students on the first day of a New Testament class at Wheaton College that they would—someday—come across a headline saying “Gordon Fee Is Dead.” “Do not believe it!” he said , standing atop a desk. “He is singing with his Lord and his king.” Then, instead of handing out the syllabus like a normal professor, he led the class in Charles Wesley’s hymn, “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing.” Fee, a widely influential New Testament teacher who believed that reading the Bible, teaching the Bible, and interpreting the Bible should bring people into an encounter with a living God, described himself as a “scholar on fire.” He died on Tuesday at the age of 88—although, as those who encountered him in the classroom or in his many books know, that’s not how he would have described it. Fee co-wrote How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary colleag...

Study: Gen Z Wants to Know More About Jesus

October 27, 2022

Despite long-term trends away from religion, Barna Group finds openness in teens. Half of teenagers around the world say that Jesus is loving, trustworthy, and wise. “The rumors of Christianity’s demise among younger people are greatly exaggerated,” said David Kinnaman, CEO of Barna Group. “That’s, I think, a really important story.” The evangelical polling firm has released the first part of a three-part study on teenagers from 26 countries around the world, looking at their views on Jesus, the Bible, and justice. It’s the largest survey Barna has done in its 38-year history, working with seven partner organizations to survey more than 25,000 representatives from Gen Z who are between the ages of 13 and 17. Barna found that in the United States 65 percent of teenagers identify as Christians—a notably high number when compared to declining rates of religious identity. Globally, 52 percent of teens identify as Christians. Beyond that, the majority of teens surveyed have positive th...

Interview: Q&A Natasha Sistrunk Robinson: Call for the Wailing Women of Color

October 26, 2022

The editor of “Voices of Lament” on how public injustice demands public sorrow. In the fall of 2019, author and speaker Natasha Sistrunk Robinson moved to Alabama with her husband and daughter. When the pandemic hit in early 2020, she found herself doubly isolated in a new location. After reading the book of Jeremiah, a particular passage “really jumped out at me,” says Robinson. It was 9:17–21, “where God tells the prophet Jeremiah to call the wailing women to wail until they are exhausted from crying so much. They’re wailing because the men have been taken out of the public square, and the children have been taken out of the streets, and ‘death has climbed in through our windows.’” The story seemed very relevant to the moment. “Death was a thief climbing into our windows too,” says Robinson. “It was all around us, with the reality of the pandemic on top of all the racial injustice of that year.” Inspired by the Old Testament model of lament, she started working on a book titled ...

This Is Not the Most Important Election of Our Lives

October 25, 2022

Michael Wear, founder of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, on the state of American politics, what’s at stake in the midterms, and the temptation to “ultimatize” our issues. Midterm elections are a time for reassessment—an invitation to evaluate the party in power, but also the political process itself, the health of the body politic, and the effect it’s all having on people’s souls. Two years after Joe Biden won a presidential campaign he characterized as “a battle for the soul of the nation,” voters are heading back to the polls with concerns about inflation, abortion, immigration, polarization, Christian nationalism, and the even future of American democracy. According to Michael Wear, founder of The Center for Christianity and Public Life , this is an opportunity for believers to reconsider their civic engagement. “Politics needs people with joyful confidence who seek security not in politics but in Jesus,” he argues . “We can break the vicious cycle.” CT started t...

California Baker Sued for Discrimination Wins Free Speech Case

October 25, 2022

Ahead of another Supreme Court case over same-sex wedding clients, judge defends cake-maker’s First Amendment rights. A California judge has ruled in favor of a Christian cake designer in the latest court decision regarding the conflict between religious freedom and same-sex marriage. Eric Bradshaw, a Superior Court judge in Kern County, said in an October 21 opinion the state violated Cathy Miller’s freedom of religion and speech when it decided she unlawfully discriminated under California law by declining to design a cake for a same-sex wedding celebration. Bradshaw’s decision is the latest in a series of court actions over several years regarding wedding vendors—such as cake designers, florists, photographers and artists—who refuse to provide their services for same-sex wedding ceremonies because of their biblically based belief that marriage is only between a man and a woman. While the US Supreme Court has issued multiple opinions in support of the free exercise of religion i...

What South Asian Christians Do During Diwali

October 24, 2022

Festival of Lights marking the Hindu new year brings invitations to Jesus followers in India, Nepal, and neighboring nations. Rivaling the scale of Thanksgiving or Christmas in the United States, Diwali has become India’s biggest holiday season. The Festival of Lights (also known as Deepavali) marks the start of the Hindu New Year and is the faith’s most important festival, celebrated for five days by more than a billion people in India—not only by Hindus but also by Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists—as well as across the Hindu diaspora. The festival symbolizes for its devotees the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness, and knowledge over ignorance. Diwali is marked by feasts, lighting clay lamps outside the house to banish evil spirits, decorative lights, prayers, family gatherings, exchanging gifts, burning firecrackers, and doing charity, besides worshiping at homes or visiting temples. Each year the holiday falls on different dates in the Hindu lunar calendar determin...

Why Should Pastors Get All the Good Theology Textbooks?

October 23, 2022

Churches across the country are reclaiming theological education to make it available to everyone. F or years, Caleb Bartel wanted to deepen his understanding of the Bible and theology. “There’s really not a way to get that from just a Sunday morning sermon or just Sunday school,” said Bartel, who attends Central Church in College Station, Texas. “You can grow on your own, absolutely, but you’re not getting seminary-level teaching.” Bartel never felt called to become a pastor. He’s a home remodeler and a married father of five, which makes seminary impractical. But the 33-year-old is now getting the chance to study theology thanks to a program at his church. Congregations across the country are implementing in-house theology programs, designed to engage members like Bartel who aren’t pursuing professional ministry but still want to study theology, church history, and the Bible. Some programs, like Central’s, are designed to replicate formal theological education, just without the ...

Public Schools Aren’t Godless. Ask the Christians Who Feel Called to Stay.

October 21, 2022

Amid pandemic shifts and concerns over controversial curricula, more families have opted for private or homeschool. But many believers see their place in the system. When pastor Clark Frailey noticed that his local schools were underfunded—at the time, Oklahoma received less education funding than almost any other state—he stepped in to help provide materials like wipes, paper, and markers. But he soon realized the problem was much bigger than empty supply closets. School buildings developed black mold. Teachers were rebinding decades-old textbooks. Kindergarteners jammed into classes of up to 30 students. So in 2016 Frailey and fellow Baptist pastors launched an initiative, Pastors for Oklahoma Kids , to advocate for the students and schools across their state. “We had a lot of demonization at the time,” he told Christianity Today . “People were saying our schools were Marxist, socialist, atheist—and that just wasn’t our experience as local church pastors.” They knew the princi...

Christians Say Sayfo Martyrs Should Get Genocide Status

October 21, 2022

Syriac-Aramean Christians, fewer in number than similarly suffering Armenians, assert their Ottoman-era plight deserves separate recognition. In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, evangelicals laid down their lives for their Lord. Living in Nusaybin, once home to the ancient theological school of Nisibis, they were among the firstfruits of the Sayfo (“sword”) martyrs. Overall, modern estimates posit half a million deaths of Syriac-Aramean Christians at the hands of Turkish and Kurdish soldiers, concurrent with the Armenian genocide that claimed 1.5 million lives. Today this Christian community, still speaking the language of Jesus, seeks its own recognition. In June 1915, the Muslim-majority city—now located on Turkey’s southeastern border with Syria—had about 100 Syrian Orthodox families, and an equal number belonging to other Christian sects. The Protestants were rounded up with Armenians and Chaldeans, marched to the front of town, and shot dead. The Orthodox families were ...

An Ark Mentality Can’t Survive an Anxiety-Flooded Age

In a world of fear and turmoil, the story of Noah brings baptismal hope. A few weeks ago, a commentator identified what he believes to be the dominant mindset of our time. He calls it “ark head,” borrowing from the biblical account of Noah and the flood. “Ark head,” argues Venkatesh Rao, happens when we give up on solving our big global problems and look instead for an “ark” in which to ride out the storms of this age of anxiety. Rao points to the numbness with which most people see the “snowballing global problems and crises we’re hurtling towards,” whether the prospect of a nuclear World War III, another global pandemic, or a collapsing economy. He speculates that even news of an alien invasion would be greeted with a What can you do about it? sort of bored acceptance. This, he writes, is a coping mechanism for people in a new dark age. The point of an ark, after all, is to “survive a cataclysmic flood while preserving as much of everything you care about as possible,” Rao wri...

DOJ Steps Up Prosecution of Pro-Life Protestors at Clinics

In the wake of Dobbs, federal prosecutors have filed more than a dozen federal indictments against protestors obstructing access to abortion clinics. In the past month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted more than a dozen pro-life protestors across the country for obstructing access to abortion clinics. Such prosecutions have been rare historically, with just a case or two annually for the last decade. But after the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade this summer, the DOJ announced a task force to pursue more enforcement against anyone obstructing access to abortion clinics. Many of those protestors facing charges are Christian. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, prohibits obstruction of access, threats, and destruction of clinic property. In these recent charges, protestors face up to 11 years in prison. Pro-life activists say the recent prosecutions seem politically motivated; some are now facing charges for incidents that date back more th...

The Push for Women’s Rights in Iran Is a Push for Religious Freedom Too

Christian advocate: The uprising in Tehran coincides with the rising disillusionment with Islam and the growth of the underground church. Growing up in a home with a Muslim father and a Christian mother, Iranian American Shirin Taber had a special appreciation for being able to choose what she believed. When she told her dad that she wished everyone back in Iran could have the same freedom, he—knowing the harsh reality of the regime—said it would never happen. Since then, Taber has worked on the cause of international religious freedom, hoping to see the trajectory change in one of the most restrictive countries in the world. And with the current uprising of Iranian women and young people, the American advocate is more optimistic than ever. In Iran, Generation Z—whose grandparents lived through the revolution— has become particularly emboldened , creative, and strategic, inspired by the impact of movements like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter. “Millennials did their part, Gen X did t...

Christian Orthodoxy Is Your Ticket to a Land of Adventure

Playing in the fields of heresy and ambiguity might offer short-term kicks, but only sound doctrine can supply a lifetime of thrills. O ver a century ago, G. K. Chesterton wrote his famous book Orthodoxy , a defense of plain, historic Christianity as the only compelling way to make sense of the world and its mysteries. Trevin Wax stands firmly in Chesterton’s tradition with his new book, The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith . Wax, a Southern Baptist whose wife hails from Romania, is a far cry from Chesterton’s Anglo-Catholicism. In his own way, however, he is attempting to emulate Chesterton’s defense of the truth and goodness of Christian orthodoxy for our own age. Earlier this year, Wax came out with his own annotated edition of Chesterton’s classic, meant to introduce it to beginners while bringing fresh insights to longtime admirers. It makes sense, then, for Wax to plot his own path, showing why historical Christianity—what C. S. Lewis called...

Evangelical Creation Care Expert Shares Lessons Learned from Global Tour

Around the world, Christians look to scriptural lessons on stewardship to depoliticize environmental issues. If the world is at stake, stewardship of creation must be global. And with an evangelical passion akin to world missions, Ed Brown is preaching ecology to the nations. One region at a time. Following initial consultations in Jamaica in 2012, Brown became the Lausanne Movement’s catalyst for creation care and helped build out the Lausanne/World Evangelical Alliance Creation Care Network (LWCCN). The goal was to amplify a conviction forged two years earlier in Cape Town, South Africa, at the third Lausanne Congress: Creation care is a gospel issue within the Lordship of Christ. Since then, LWCCN has conducted conferences in 12 regions drawing delegates from over 120 nations. Concluding earlier this month in Jordan for the Middle East and North Africa, Brown and his colleagues addressed local issues for a region experts warn is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the wor...

American Idol: How Politics Replaced Spiritual Practice

Christian formation is central to civic renewal, not the other way around. When voters go to the polls for US midterm elections this November, many will be motivated by a sense that the other side seeks to bully them. According to a poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, nearly identical percentages of Democrats (74%) and Republicans (73%) believe members of the opposing party are “generally bullies who want to impose their political beliefs on those who disagree.” Similarly high percentages of Americans in both parties believe that members of the other side tend to be “generally untruthful and are pushing disinformation.” These statistics reflect what a group of social scientists have termed “political sectarianism”—a “poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion and moralism” that “poses a threat to democracy.” Sectarianism poses a threat to democracy because self-governance only makes sense in a culture where citizens care and think about someone other tha...

Canada Euthanized 10,000 People in 2021. Has Death Lost Its Sting?

Here’s what I’ve learned as a Christian doctor receiving requests for physician-assisted dying. W hen the hospital staff called me to my patient’s bedside, I could see her distress was severe. She was agitated and breathless, her face etched with discomfort and frustration. “I can’t take this anymore,” she cried. She had suffered for years with chronic illness and had been admitted to my intensive care unit with acute complications. She was debilitated and exhausted, and her grief and frustration had come to a head. “I just want to die,” she wept. Her friend was standing next to me at the bedside, and he was clearly upset by her distress. “Just ask for MAID,” he told her, using the popular acronym for medical assistance in dying, often referred to as physician-assisted death. “Then you can end it all now.” I was startled by his statement. Though physician-assisted death is available in Canada, where I live, I had not expected the conversation to move in that dir...

Liberalism Comes in Right-Wing and Left-Wing Varieties. Christians Should Reject Both.