Jun 5, 2019 | Reading Topics, Seeking God finding Jesus
God has laws that He wants every human being on the earth to follow. And those laws are written upon our hearts. We know that it is against God’s law to commit against someone; it is also against God’s laws to rape someone or to steal all their money and property. As...
Jun 5, 2019 | Reading Topics, Seeking God finding Jesus
Jesus tells us in the Bible that He came to bring us peace. He was a peaceful man who did not believe in war or violence as a way to spread His message of love and forgiveness. Jesus never fought in a battle, or picked up a sword. Jesus never wanted to be a king or a...
Jun 5, 2019 | Reading Topics, Seeking God finding Jesus
There are 2 things that we can think about when we are trying to live a life for God: one is following the Law and one is following the Spirit. God gave the Law, or Laws, to the Israelite people when they were in the desert. This happened on a place called the Sinai...
Jun 5, 2019 | Reading Topics, Seeking God finding Jesus
Knowing God personally is something that is foreign to us Somalis: we do not think that we can be friends with God. And yet the Bible says that people can be friends with God. Abraham was a prophet in the Old Testament; we know him as Ibraahim. Yes Ibraahim was a...
Jun 5, 2019 | Reading Topics, Seeking God finding Jesus
Many Somalis are looking for peace in all the wrong places. Since the diaspora, that is, since many Somalis had to flee Somalia because of the civil war, Somalis are trying to find peace – but many have not been able to do so. For many Somalis a peaceful Somalia is...
Jun 5, 2019 | Reading Topics, Seeking God finding Jesus, Somali Christians
If you want to be saved and have your sins forgiven you need to come to the rock and the rock is Christ. The Bible says: “I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that...