‘We’ve Proved Christians Can Be Good Business People Too!’
By Sheba Devaraj November 14, 2009 | 00:33:10 IF someone were to tell you that you don’t need a great capital to start a business and rake in profits in several crores, would you buy that claim? Perhaps not! However, the success story of Parweesh Kumar (34) and Joshua Madan (32), founders of Covenant India, a human resources consulting firm based in Chennai, lends weight to the claim. The young Christian entrepreneurs launched their company with a meager investment of Rs.100 and turned it into an enterprise worth several crores. THE CHRISTIAN MESSENGER spoke to Joshua and Parweesh to unravel…
You know who’s at the center of religion? You are. You’re the focus. You’re the star. You’re in center stage and the spotlight is always on you. Religion deceives you into thinking you’re all about God, when in reality, you’re all about you. When you’re in religion, your relationship with God is based entirely on you; on how many prayers you pray, how you do at reading the Scriptures, how you do in keeping the commands, how you do at going to church, and on and on the list goes. Religion is based on man’s continued work. 
Jesus, Be The Centre - Be My Source, Be My Light - Jesus - Jesus, Be The Centre - Be My Hope, Be My Song - Jesus - (Chorus) - Be The Fire In My Heart - Be The Wind In These Sails - Be The Reason That I Live - Jesus, Jesus - Jesus, Be My Vision - Be My Path, Be My Guide - Jesus
2012 is produced, directed and written by the same person who made “Independence Day” and “The Day After Tomorrow” that depicts the end of the world. What makes this 2012 movie different is that it illustrates a cataclysmic event on December 21, 2012 as prophesied by the ancient Mayan calendar. Basically, the Mayans believed that the god of war and creation, Bolon Yokte, will descend from the sky and judge the earth. Proponents of this view include the best-selling author of the book The Bible Code, Michael Drosnin, who claims that secret biblical codes when unlocked show the earth pounded by comets in 2012. Another proponent, Lawrence Joseph, author of the book Apocalypse 2012, says that on the day in question the sun will be in exact alignment with the center of our galaxy resulting in some kind of gravitational shift that will throw our planet out of orbit, causing catastrophe. 
The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration. This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas, their community histories and their religious practices. The South Asian Christian diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin. This book gives justice to such pluralism and presents a multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language, generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all discussed.
We Fall Down, We Lay Our Crowns, At The Feet Of Jesus, The Greatness Of Mercy And Love, At The Feet Of Jesus. We Cry Holy, Holy, Holy, We Cry Holy, Holy, Holy, We Cry Holy, Holy, Holy, Is The Lamb. We Fall Down, We Lay Our Crowns, At The Feet Of Jesus My Jesus, I Love You . . . . I Know Thou Are Mine, To Thee All The Follies Of Sin I Resign, My Gracious Redeemer, My Savior, Art Thou, If Ever I Loved You, My Jesus, Tis Now.
A friend recently asked me, “Is monogamy realistic in 21st century?” That made me thinking. In an age of divorce, hookup culture and widespread infidelity, “till death do us part’ seems nearly impossible. Celebrities are openly flaunting their extra-marital exploits! With people constantly moving from place to place and changing jobs like they do with clothes, the ‘use and throw’ attitude is creeping into our thinking of how we view relationships like that of marriage.
We live in an an age where success is all about sound bytes. It is about being seen, being heard and being recognized. We want to be ’seen’ busy. We want to be where the ‘action’ is.We live and believe in ‘aspirational’ christianity and so all what we ’spiritually’ are is put on Face Book. We are ever in a ‘broadcast’ mode as we get lost in the craze for the world of megapixels and megabytes. And often times, we gain the whole world’s attention but end up losing on the heavenly joy of ‘rooting’ people in spirituality and ‘building’ them up to live out faith when it matters and where it matters.
Above All Powers, Above All Kings, Above All Nature And All Created Things, Above All Wisdom And All The Ways Of Man, You Were Here Before The World Began, Above All Kingdoms, Above All Thrones, Above All Wonders The World Has Ever Known, Above All Wealth And Treasures Of The Earth, There's No Way To Measure What You're Worth, Crucified, Laid Behind A Stone, You Lived To Die, Rejected And Alone, Like A Rose, Trampled On The Ground, You Took The Fall, And Thought Of Me, Above All