Kalpana – 139 Worship Services Next Sunday: November 3rd, 2019 Holy Qurbana service in Malayalam at 10:15 am Sunday School at 9 AM Adult Bible Study at 9:30am Weekly Prayers Intercessory Prayer on Wednesday at 6:30 pm at the Church. Fasting prayer on Friday at 10:30 am at the Church. Prayer Fellowship Prayer Group 4: … [Read more…]
Greetings to you in the name of Christ Jesus. Our parish annual convention is from October 24th to October 27th, 2019. October 27th is the family dedication Sunday. This year our convention and family dedication service will help us to renew and reform our personal and family life. All are requested to prayerfully prepare and … [Read more…]
Psalms 139:13-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart.(Psalms 139:23) To this day I can still hear my mother telling me to go and clean up my room. Dutifully, I would go to my room to start the process, only to get distracted by reading the comic book that I was supposed to put … [Read more…]
Psalms 139:7-12 The Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. (1 Chr 28:9) My friend’s husband was in the last stages of dementia. In his first introduction to the nurse who was assigned to care for him, he reached out for her arm and stopped her. He said he wanted to introduce … [Read more…]
Luke 5:27-32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.(Luke 5:32) Even before I could afford a self-cleaning oven, I managed to keep my oven clean. Guests even commented on it when we had them over for a meal. “Wow, your oven is so clean. It looks like new.” I accepted … [Read more…]
Condolences Detroit Mar Thoma Church expresses our deepest condolence at the sad demise of our member Mr. George M. Samuel (71, Mazhavencheril House, Poovanmala, Ranny) on Saturday, October 19th, 2019. The viewing/ Visitation Service will be held on October 23rd, Wednesday 5pm to 9pm and Funeral Service on October 24th, Thursday at 9am at the … [Read more…]
Matthew 7:24–29 Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. (Matthew 7:24) “I’ve got bad news for you,” said the builder, who was renovating an old house I had inherited. “When we started to convert the back half of … [Read more…]
1 Samuel 20:32-42 Two are better than one. (Ecclesiastes 4:9) In the novel Shane, a friendship forms between Joe Starrett, a farmer on the American frontier, and Shane, a mysterious man who stops to rest at the Starrett home. The men first bond as they work together to remove a giant tree stump from Joe’s land. … [Read more…]
Jonah 1:1–2:2 I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me.(Jonah 2:2) When our daughter was too young to walk or crawl, she created a way to hide from people when she wanted to be left alone or wanted her own way. She simply closed her eyes. Kathryn reasoned that anyone she … [Read more…]
Genesis 12:1-10; 13:1 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You delivered them.(Psalms 22:4) Before my wife and I embarked on a 400-mile road trip, I set up the GPS with our daughter’s home in Missouri as the destination. As we traveled through Illinois, the GPS instructed us to get off the Interstate, resulting … [Read more…]