Tag: Chellakkan Blesson
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Genesis: Farewell, and a New Beginning
Genesis: Farewell, and a New Beginning. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Genesis: Sovereignty and God’s Plan
Genesis: Sovereignty and God’s Plan. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 58 – Shield of Faith!
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 58 – Shield of Faith! Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 52 – We Serve Christ
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 52 – We Serve Christ. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 46 – What are We Full of?
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 46 – What are We Full of? Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (His) Story: Day 40 – Christ is Our Model!
By Blesson C. Selvanesan The Word: 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:31-32, NKJV). Interpretation: Once a person is born again in Christ, that…
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Ephesians (His) Story: Day 34 – Truth Matters! Say the Truth in Love
Written by Blesson C. Selvanesan The Word 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who…
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 28 – The Love of God is Deep and Wide!
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 28 – The Love of God is Deep and Wide! Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 22 – Revelation of Grace and Cost of the Call
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 22 – Revelation of Grace and Cost of the Call. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 16 – Free because it’s Expensive!
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 16 – Free because it’s Expensive! Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 10 – Power of God
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 10 – Power of God. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 4 – He Will Gather Us
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Day 4 – He Will Gather Us. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Ephesians (HIS) Story: Be Angry and Do Not Sin
Ephesians (HIS) Story: Be Angry and Do Not Sin. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Life’s Greatest Questions… Competence is Essential for Survival
Life’s Greatest Questions… Competence is Essential for Survival. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Life’s Greatest Questions… Purpose and Meaning
Life’s Greatest Questions… Purpose and Meaning. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Life’s Greatest Questions… Fellowship in Christ
Life’s Greatest Questions… Fellowship in Christ. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Life’s Greatest Questions… Identity in Christ
Life’s Greatest Questions… Identity in Christ. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Life’s Greatest Questions… Security in Surrender
Life’s Greatest Questions… Security in Surrender. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Leading Through Uncertainty – Trust in God’s Ability and Sovereignty
Leading Through Uncertainty – Trust in God’s Ability and Sovereignty. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Leading Through Uncertainty – Crises Creates Character
Leading Through Uncertainty – Crises Creates Character. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Leading Through Uncertainty – Leadership and Partnership Matters in Times of Crises
Leading Through Uncertainty – Leadership and Partnership Matters in Times of Crises. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Leading Through Uncertainty – Decisiveness Will Carry Through Uncertainty and Crises
Leading Through Uncertainty – Decisiveness Will Carry Through Uncertainty and Crises. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Leading Through Uncertainty – Crisis Shapes a Christian
Leading Through Uncertainty – Crisis Shapes a Christian. Written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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John 16:22-24 – Tables Turned, a New Beginning
Thursday devotional. John 16:22-24 written by Blesson Selvanesan.
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Mourning to Mayhem
Mayhem to Miracle By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: 38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has…
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Can You Handle the Truth?
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: John 10:22-30 (ESV) 22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are…
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Mocking a Miracle
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: 26 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” 28 And they reviled him, saying,…
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Freedom in Knowing the Truth
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: 31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How…
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Jesus Persecuted
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: John 7:32-36 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33 Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. 34 You will seek me and you…
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Jesus, Greater than Moses
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”…
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Death, Resurrection, and Judgement
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word 25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to…
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Jesus Christ the Evangelist
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: John 4:27-38 27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come,…
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Light versus Darkness
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: John 3:18-21 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than…
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The Three Day Sign
By Blesson Selvanesan The Word: John 2:18-21 18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise…
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The voice for The WORD
By Blesson C Selvanesan The Word: John 1:19-28 19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I…
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Devotional for October 24th, 2018
By Blesson Selvenesan Do you have to check out your brain to be a Christian? I remember seeing a cartoon where people were entering a church with their brains in their hand. They are handing it for safekeeping at the entrance and entering into the church without their brains. Obviously, the cartoonist wants to portray…
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Devotional for October 4th, 2018
By Blesson Selvanesan There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28. In Christ, all have their worth and place. In this verse, Paul says male and female are one in Christ. They are worth the…
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TGA: Gender
By Blesson Selvanesan So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27) The scripture is clear that God created male and female in the image of God. Both sexes were created to play a complementary role and not a competing…
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Devotional for September 19th, 2018
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1: 27. The purpose of creating humans is to replicate the image of God. Humans were created by God in His own image, God’s own reflection! Do we really see God’s image…
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TGA: Race
By Dr. Blesson Selvenesan I grew up in India and my experience is totally different from my American brothers and sisters. I was naïve and did not understand the intricacies of racism. My parents taught me to be resilient, tough yet kind. I have read and heard about the racism and how it affected my…
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Devotional for August 16th, 2018
The Word (1 Corinthian 16:15-18) 15 Now I urge you, brothers – you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints— 16 be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer. 17 I rejoice at…
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Devotional for August 9th, 2018
The Word (1 Corinthian 15:29-34) 29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf? 30 Why are we in danger every hour? 31 I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in…
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Devotional for August 2nd, 2018
The Word (1 Corinthians 14:20-25) 20 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 21 In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen…
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Devotional for July 26th, 2018
The Word (1 Corinthian 13:11-12) 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part;…
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Devotional for July 19th, 2018
The Word: 1 Corinthians 12:20-26 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be…
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Devotional for July 12th, 2018
The Word: (I Corinthians 11: 17-22) 17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I…
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Devotional for July 5th, 2018
The Word: I Corinthians 10: 14-22 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in…
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Devotional for June 28th, 2018
The Word: 1 Corinthians 7: 25-28 25 Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. 26 I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to…
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No Perfect People Allowed: 1 Corinthians 6:15-17
The Word (1 Corinthians 6:15-17): 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written,…
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Devotional for June 14th, 2018
I. The Word: I Corinthians 5:9-11 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am…
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Devotional for June 7th, 2018
The Word (I Cor 4: 1-7) This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by…
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Devotional for May 31st, 2018
The Word: 1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,…
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Devotional for May 5th, 2018
The word: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets…
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Devotional for April 28th, 2018
The Word: …Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10. By Blesson Selvanesan Prayer is an essential component of Christianity. It is a two-way communication between mankind and God. Jesus himself spent a lot of time in prayer with…
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Devotional for April 21st, 2018
The Word: “Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!” Genesis 37:20 By Dr. Blesson Selvanesan Joseph was a son who was loved by his father. His brothers hated him and…
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Devotional for April 13th, 2018
The Word: “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to…
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Devotional for April 6th, 2018
I. The word: ‘…always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.’ I Peter 3:15 By Blesson Selvanesan Ph.D Many think that believers in Christ are unintelligent people who are being controlled by the clergy…
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Devotional for March 31st, 2018
I. The Word: When he (Saul) came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the…
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Devotional for March 24th, 2018
The Word: The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there. (Acts 19: 32) By Blesson Selvanesan The above ‘statement’ sound very familiar to all of us. This is not about any current event, but this is a description of…
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Devotional for February 17th, 2018
The Word: Psalm 23:3 – 4 3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. By Blesson Selvanesan…
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Devotional for February 10th, 2018
The Word: Psalm 73 22-28 22 I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you. 23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is…
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Devotional for February 3rd, 2018
The Word: Psalm 3 3 Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. 2 Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah 3 But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head. 4 I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard…
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