Verse for reflection: St Mathew 1:7-17 St Mathew divides the generations from Abraham to the coming of Christ into three phases; each of these includes 14 generations- we note spiritual messages from these 3 phases. from Abraham to David- a journey of glory of kingship/royalty. Kingship signifies greatness. In the book of Genesis, the Triune…
Verse for reflection: St Mathew 1:6 The next woman we encounter is king David’s wife, the mother of king Solomon. We see in Old Testament that her name was Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah. Uriah was killed in the battlefield in a plan set by David so that he could take his wife who was…
Verse for reflection: St Mathew 1:2-5 We will continue with the reflection on Rahab. The chapter 11 in the book of Hebrews extols the virtue of faith as exhibited by the forefathers, citing faith as the ‘substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen’ (Hebrews 11:1; NKJV). The list of those who…
Journey with the Holy Bible – Day 6 (St. Matthew 1:2-5)
Journey with the Holy Bible – Day 4 (St Mathew 1:2-5)
Verse for reflection: St Mathew 1:1 Continuing with St Athanasius’s input: Men had three ways to know about the All-Merciful God. One, they could look up to the immensity of heaven and by pondering the harmony of creation come to know its Ruler. If not the first, they could atleast converse with holy men and…
Journey with the Holy Bible (Matthew 1:1) – Day 2
When the new year arrives most of us do make resolutions-e.g. lose weight, spend less, learn some new skills etc. Last Sunday, we welcomed the liturgical new year of the church ‘Kudosh Etho’ – the theme of Kudosh Etho Sunday being sanctification. Let us try as we usher in the spiritual new year to read…
