Month: February 2020

The words of prophet Nehemiah which says, “The joy of the Lord is your strength,” points to joy as byproduct of the Christian faith rooted in trust in God (Neh 8:10). Everyone want to be joyful and happy but we are living in an imperfect post-truth world where there is more sin, unbelief, sadness, sorrow and pain hence, many are searching for means to be joyful in the wrong ways and in the wrong places. The Bible says there are certain conditions and circumstances that are key to a joyful and blessed life, church and nation. There is true...

The place of Christianity in our societies is increasingly changing, challenging, and declining. Charles Taylor in his book ‘A Secular Age,’ traced the phenomenon of secularisation since the Reformation and the beginning of modernity. Taylor examines some aspects of modernity which we call secular in relation to ‘a series of new departures, in which earlier form of religious life have been dissolved or destablized and new ones have been created.’ According to Taylor, ‘today’s secular world is characterised not by absence of religion – although in some societies religious belief and practice have markedly declined – but rather by...