He (Peter) said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.” Acts 10:28 Tradition is a “long-established belief or custom” impacting how […]
Read MoreSpiritual Digest
Spiritual Digest is a weekly publication of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) USA. Spiritual Digest was founded in 2016 by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot. For many years, Rev. Bwanhot have been having been teaching spiritual awareness and spiritual growth every Tuesday at ECWA Church, Chicago. He decided to start sharing the series with the rest of the world late 2018 with the first digital edition published on the New Year’s Day on January 1, 2019. It is currently published exclusively in digital format with a single article published in the first edition of Doxa Magazine. You can search for Spiritual Digest topics on ECWA USA website at https://ecwausa.org to view current as well as previous publications. Rev. Sunday Bwanhot is EMS/SIM Missionary. He serves as Team leader of SIM Culture Connexions; Pastor of ECWA Chicago.
Hope For the Hopeful and The Hopeless
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Rom. 12:12 Chambers defines hope as a desire – an expectation that something good will happen. Hope for anything on this side of heaven is conditioned by many factors. Everyone alive had had hopes dashed, even when we were assured. […]
Read MoreBe An Encourager
You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry.” Ps. 10:17 To encourage means to inspire or give hope. Every one of us needs encouragement round the clock, especially in the times that we live in today. God, our Father, takes the […]
Read MoreBut I Thought Love Was a Voluntary Act?
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34 The command to love seems like an oxymoron. Even the Bible in 1 Corinthians 13, translated in the Living Bible and The Message, says that love “does not […]
Read MoreWe Must Tell What Christ Has Done For Us
Jesus … said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” Mark 5:19 The story of the demonic-possessed man in Mark 5 could be the story of each of us. God, in His […]
Read MoreWhy Good People Die Sooner Than We Would Love
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants. Ps. 116:15 M any people die every day, but we cannot help noticing a trend that God seems to take away the best from families. Have you ever wished God had taken […]
Read MoreWhat Makes God Angry
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot If you love me, keep my commands (John 14:15). But Samuel replied: Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams (1Sam. 15:22). […]
Read MoreBefore You Marry, Consider These Verses
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ … Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate. Mat. 19:5-6 I hate divorce, says the Lord God of Israel […]
Read MoreA Heart of Compassion
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you. Isa. 49:15 Jesus responded out of compassion to our plight as sinners by dying in our place. His […]
Read MorePraying Against Persecution?
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed … They will condemn him to death… mocked and flogged and crucified. Mat. 20:18-19a Jesus Christ walked boldly into Jerusalem and suffered all He predicted would happen to Him without shrinking back. […]
Read MoreGod Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me Mat. 11:6 The most tragic thing that can happen to a creature is to assume the role, second guest or misinterprete the Creator’s intent. John, like all his contemporaries, misunderstood God’s promised deliverance […]
Read MoreA Lost Sheep is Waiting for You
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered away? Mat. 18:12 There is no doubt from this parable that […]
Read MoreReality Check For All Who Claim To Believe
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee. Luke 24:6 People generally act on what they hear and believe to be true. Jesus told His disciples several times that He would die and rise […]
Read MoreLove Beyond Measure
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Rom. 5:8 As I reflect during this passion week, I am amazed about God’s sacrificial love for a rebel and worthless sinner like me. What made God […]
Read MoreChoose Humility
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is? Mat. 16:13 Jesus did not ask the question above because he had an identity crisis or was suffering from low self-esteem. He willingly chose […]
Read MoreWhy God Blesses People
by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us—so that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. Ps. 67:1-2 To bless someone is to pronounce what you desire for that person. Jacob and Moses […]
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