Don’t Despise the Small Beginning: My Experience in the US

Seven years ago, when Youtube was fairly a new thing in town for the Nepali speaking Christians, I signed up for an account and posted this video clip not knowing where it would lead me.  Few years down the road, I asked my wife to hold the camera so that I could speak on to it a message to the Nepali speaking brothers and sisters across the nations.  One thing led to another and started to post our full length sermons preached at various places.  Today, these sermons have received more than 170 thousand hits and we have been busy in responding many of our online listeners from around the world.

येशूले मात्रै तपाईँलाई स्वतन्त्र जीवन दिनसक्नुहुन्छ

The Advantage of Disadvantages

We know a Korean pastor’s family in Daejeon for about a year now.  We have also prayed with them when they were going through a real tough time in their ministry.  When the dust settled down and they were able to breathe a sigh of relief after the situation was under control, they presented a book to us as a sign of appreciation for standing with them in prayer.  The book was “David and Goliath”, very biblical title by Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author.  I am not sure as how much our friends read in English but my guess is that they really thought this was a good biblical book to present to a pastor.  As I unwrapped my gift, the thing that caught my attention was not the main title but the subtitle; “Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants”.  I was excited to devour it right away.

Palm Sunday: On a journey with Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem

Is Money the Answer for Everything?

Apostle Thomas and South Asian Preachers

It is no longer disputed that Apostle Thomas came to India in AD 52, preached the gospel to the high caste Hindus in Kerala, and established a church that is known as the Mar Thoma (St. Thomas) Church; the oldest church in India.  When Islam and western powers colonized India, this church faced challenges for its existence and identity.  It survived the Islamic conquest, thanks to its close affinity with the local Hindu culture.  But it had to fight harder to maintain its original identity from the encroachments of other foreign church bodies. 

Treasure in Jars of Clay - 2 Cor. 4:7-18

12 Years a Slave: A long overdue movie for the sufferings of the blacks in America

Monday, March 3, 2014, Daejeon, South Korea.  As I turned my computer on, I saw the Oscar headlining “‘12 Years A Slave’ wins best picture, and ‘Gravity’ wins 7 Oscars”.  Though I was living in the city known for science and technology, my attention was drawn to the “12 Years Slave”.  Having not heard about the film prior to that headline, my curiosity got the better of me and soon I was watching it on VIOOZ.  It’s about 135 minutes film, but it took me nearly 4 hours to watch till the end; not because my computer was slow but the emotional build ups were too strong to bear in one sitting. 

2 Corinthians 3:1-18 With unveiled Faces Reflecting the Glory of God (+p...

Secret of a successful preacher: Respect for the audience

I surrendered my life to Christ sometime in the spring of 1985. I was staying with a pastor’s family in a town called Dhangadi in far west Nepal, but no one led me to Christ; it was my personal decision. Oblivious to the pastor, two booklets, “Sabaiko Saathi” (collection of gospel stories from Luke) and “God who answers by fire”, had done a remarkable work in my sinful heart. In one afternoon of that spring, I walked to a nearby forest, knelt under a saal tree and asked for the forgiveness of my sins from the savior I had come to know by this time. Came fall that year, and my relationship with my savior had deepened; I could no longer avoid his call to pastoral ministry. But there was a problem. The pastor who I was staying with was certain that I was not going to be a Christian; our relationship had gone sour. At the same time, I came to know that one has to take baptism in order to be a Christian, let alone be a pastor.