Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days (Ecclesiastes 11:1 RSV).  We live in a world where such teaching can be very easily misunderstood or misinterpreted. As a young Christian I often struggled to understand the meaning of this Bible verse. It looks as if the Bible is encouraging us to be spendthrifts or to......

Every time a new year rolls around, I hear people bragging about their new year’s resolutions. This was a big thing for me when I was a kid; I used to make a list of things to do each New Year. My list was pretty long when I was around 10, but it just narrowed down to one or two items by my mid teen years (may be I was becoming more realistic......

As we come to the last few days and hours of the year 2005 and are ready to knock the doors of 2006, I am reminded of the tragedy of our lives. I know for many of you as soon as you read the word tragedy “you were thinking of the Tsunami, and Katrina…etc”. No I am not talking about the natural calamities that caused tragedy; I am......

Can we ever give a perfect gift? I use to spend many hours and sometimes a lot of money to find someone whom I love the perfect gift. But after many years of giving and receiving gifts I realized that we can give great gifts, valuable gifts, expensive gifts but I am not sure if we can give perfect gifts (of course it depends on our definition of a ......

Yesterday my wife asked if we can go out for some Christmas shopping, I told her we still have 11 days to go, so what’s the hurry? I realized only after going to the stores that according to many Americans I was already late for shopping. Holiday decorations are going up earlier in stores with each passing year, seasonal merchandise gets stoc......