The Khatri Parivaar

          “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins … Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and they shall his name Immanuel, which means, God with us. ” (Matthew 1:21, 23)          “… I bring you good news of good news of great joy at will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day … a savior, who is Christ the Lord .” (Luke 2:10, 11) All over the world every people celebrate the Christmas. But I am skeptic that those who celebrate the Christmas really know the meaning of it. Most of Christians think that going Church and praying, decorating houses with colourful lights, giving gifts each other, giving party to friends and sharing food with poor for a day is Christmas. People from other religions think that Christmas is the day in which Christians celebrate the birthday of the person who is the founder of the religion called Christianity. I ...

Proverbs 4:23 says, “ Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”  Our heart is the centre of our emotion, desire and understanding. It affects every aspect of our life. Jesus cried out saying, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that outside also may be clean. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness ” (Matthew 23:25-28). In Jesus’ time, whole society was busy to perform different rituals in the temple thinking that it would purify them. But our Lord Jesus Christ didn’t emphasis on rituals to reform...

Christianity is neither religion nor philosophy, but it is a relationship and practice. Through Jesus Christ, we have intimate relationship with God which was broken because of the sin; and it is a reaching out to the world practicing love and mercy. When a body of water doesn’t flow out, it becomes a stagnant pond, likewise without practicing love and mercy in order to reach out others makes Christianity a boast of stagnant. The prophet Micah says, “ He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? ” (Micah 6:8). We all need to understand that without practicing justice and mercy, it is not possible to have deep relationship with God. Therefore our Lord Jesus Christ condemned the religious leaders during his time saying, “ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters o...

Biologically every living thing needs food and water to grow and to survive. It is said that an average person can survive 21 days without food and 3 days without water. Hunger and thirst is a sign of life . No one has to teach someone to be hunger and thirst. It is natural for even a baby longing for mother’s milk. Peter writes in the epistle, “ Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation ” (1 Peter 2:2). A dead never have to hunger and thirst. It is also a sign of good health . One of the most important questions a doctor can ask a patient in the course of an examination is ‘how is your appetites’. Because lack of appetites is always a cause of concern and may be a symptom of serious disease.   This same principle can be applied for our spiritual life. When being a believer we have little or no appetites for spiritual things, something is seriously wrong, although outwardly everything seems perfectly in order. Scott...

What would be, if Jesus Christ has not been raised from the dead? Apostle Paul writes to the church of Corinth precisely that if Christ has not been raised from the dead, our preaching is in vain; and if our preaching is in vain, our faith is futile; and we are still in our sins. Then those who have died in Christ have perished forever. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are the most pitiable people among all people of the world. (1 Cor. 15:12-19, Paraphrased). In other words, if there is no resurrection of Christ, there is no gospel; no forgiveness of sin, no salvation, even there is no hope for the eternal life. The resurrection of Christ is the main theme of our Gospel and every disciple of Christ testified of it in their preaching and epistles. Peter preached about the resurrection of Christ in the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:24-32); before the Sanhedrin (Acts 4:10); in the house of Cornelius (Acts 10:39-40). Paul preached about the resurrection of Christ at An...