Do you know how to spell IMPOSSIBLE? Last Thursday, we gathered for Doubt Night in the upstairs room of St. Mark’s to begin our first round of dialogue. The topic: Exclusivity. 13 showed up. That’s a record! After presenting an overview on the topic for a few minutes, we opened up the floor for discussion. We ended up staying there for two hours and I found it hard to end the night…in a good way. In other words, don’t be a Christian who, every time encounters a bad situation will either blame it on God or the devil. James is trying to say that there is some evil in us that manifests from our fleshly nature. That is the reason why you don’t need to teach kids to lie or steal. It's in them. It has caught up faster than we expected! Yes, I am talking about the social networking sites. Are you perplexed about the need of social networking for your ministry or church? Does the internet seem to offer you a myriad of opportunities but you don’t know how to get the best
out of them? Before I go any further, let me say that, I may not be a media expert but our ministry’s media presence often is a topic of conversation with some. We live in a world of different religious beliefs. And in our global village we all live side by side – if not physically, then certainly
through the media, the internet, air travel, and international terrorism. How do these different beliefs relate to each other? Are they 'leaves on the tree', or 'different paths to the mountaintop', ultimately leading in the same direction? Potential census question exposes sensitive divide in Indian society.Well, should the ships have been sailing towards Gaza in the first place?EIGHT REASONS MEN REJECT SPIRITUAL FATHERSYesterday, I saw a cartoon. "God has a set number of things that he wants us to do. But I am so far behind, that at this rate, I will never die." A couple of days ago I was running (I use that term very loosely) on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio... And I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I learned....The world is changing, mov ing forward, unaccustomed to the fancies and whims of minds and hearts disaffected. The moments and seasons of yester-year fraught with pain and sorrows, somehow forgotten and pushed away. There was and is nothing that could not have and would not have happened that did not happen. The following is a post by Siby Varghese. Siby will be hosting Doubt Night this Thursday at 7pm at Seven Mile Road.
There are benefits and pressures of having more than one culture. On the one hand, young diaspora Asians have the best of both worlds. Their life experience can be seen as richer and more diverse than those who have knowledge of only one culture. They can have bhangra and rock,
chapatis and chips, Bollywood and Hollywood. ‘The word “love” doesn’t mean you are happy with the person. If it means losing my family, which is more important to me, then I wouldn’t marry someone who was not Gujarati’ (A young Gujarati). Marriage continues to be an important institution for South Asians. For many
South Asian parents, their main goal in life is to see their children educated and married, so the pressure to find a partner and settle down, The term 'diaspora' refers to a dispersion of a people from their original homeland. It was originally used to refer to the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine, following the Babylonians' conquest of the Judean Kingdom in the 6th century BC. Until fairly recently, it was
used to refer to Jews living outside of modern day Israel. 
The international conference attempting to reconcile South Asians across diverse ethnic boundaries was started by a local Singapore Pastor Pritam Singh Sandhu. Crossing strong political and religious boundaries, the South Asian Global Convention SAGC 2009 gathered groups
like Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalis, Sri Lankans and Bangladeshis. The event, which concluded last week, was nothing short of a ‘miracle’ and
‘God’s hand’, said founder and coordinator Pastor Pritam Singh, citing remarks by attendants. A young man, slapped with all the addictions one can possibly imagine, being freed from them by the power of the Gospel, as he testifies. Referring to himself as a street gangster turned preacher, Victor King relates how though he was raised in a Christian family, he was rebellious and
went on a seemly irreversibly downhill trajectory as he got involved in a gang, picked up smoking, started skipping school, stealing, vandalising, drinking and getting into fights. 
In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings. Market driven spirituality has generally scripted us to believe that we are not responsible, that we are a product of our feelings and enviroment. But such "religious" sounding scripts do not describe reality or knowledge of things as they are. If our feelings or temptation to appease political regimes control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so. Kingdom believers make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bring the newborn into the world. May the church never forget who gave birth to it and at what cost it had been purchased from the world. Now is the time to carry the cross and count the cost.