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My Story: Video

Suraj Reddy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:17:41 +0000

Growing up, I was deeply worried about my destiny -- about what was going to happen when I died. I was also on a quest for meaning -- which one of the gods I worshiped was real?

I Craved Change.

Many of you know I am a Christian, but don’t know why or what it means to me.

This is my story.

Question: Does this resonate? Do you/did you crave change? What’s your story?

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WinterCon: The Great Prayer Hypocrisy #ewc09

Suraj Reddy — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:15:10 +0000

Prayer – talking with God – is huge, but in my life I’ve noticed that we can talk about the importance of prayer, but not apply it in our lives.

I’m definitely inspired in this category by my Muslim friends who make it a practice to pray 5 times a day. Being a Christian, we’re not forced to pray, and so we can definitely slack in this area of our lives.

However, I’ve been greatly challenged, moved and inspired to pray continually by the continual application of prayer at Winter Conference – I was pleasantly surprised that we’ve had moments of prayer at every one of our main session meetings so far. Back on campus, there’s prayer meetings every weekday. Today I helped organize a live online question and answer event, and the staff present prayed before and after the event, something I would have easily ignored to do.

So thank you WinterCon for the great example.

Question: What do you value and prioritize that is hard to apply in your life?

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Seven Pounds & Christmas

Suraj Reddy — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:30:19 +0000

Being a Will Smith fan, I’ve been wanting to watch this movie ever since I saw the trailer last year. I finally got to watch it last night.

In Seven Pounds, Smith’s character, Tim Thomas, makes a very big mistake. He then decides to give sacrificially to seven people with the hope of changing their lives forever.

This being Christmas, I could not help but think of the parallels between Tim’s story, and the Good News of the bible – as Tim gave sacrificially to 7 others, God gave his son, Jesus, for all of us (John 3:16). One of the parallels especially stood out, and so I’m sharing it below.

Good People Only? In the movie, when deciding whom to give to, one of Tim’s criterion’s was that they were good people. Especially when “no one was watching”. In God’s eyes, none of us add up – none of us deserve to spend eternity with God. None of us are good people – we’re all messed up (Rom 3:23). However, He still chose to give sacrificially to us by sending Jesus to die for our sins, so we could live (Rom 5:6-8).

This is one of the biggest things that sticks out to me when comparing Christianity to other religions – despite us messing up, God came for us, and died for our sins so we can know him. WOW!

That said, Merry Christmas! It’s so nice to get time off to celebrate God’s gift to us.

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You should consider the claims of Jesus

Suraj Reddy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:35:38 +0000

This is a persuasive speech I gave for a Public Speaking class at University. Let me know what you think!

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$32 to convert someone

Suraj Reddy — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:07:18 +0000

I knew the title would get you here! (…please let me know if I was right :p)

I wanted to write about Compassion Bloggers – bloggers playing a part in in “transform[ing] the lives of children in poverty worldwide“. I’ve been to Anne Jackson’s blog lately, and she just returned from a week long trip to India with several other bloggers. The trip was sponsored by Compassion with hopes that they would witness the situation surrounding children first hand and blog about their experiences, which they have been doing quite well.

Through Anne’s posts, some of the things that touched me was that some of the children don’t have any ambitions, because they are stuck in a cycle of poverty. They can’t dream of becoming someone, because all they know and see is what surrounds them. They’re stuck. But Compassion and sponsorships from across the globe are set to change that.

Back to the title. Everything Compassion does for the children, they are able to do through sponsorships from everyday folks like you and me. Children enrolled in the Compassion program get education, a daily meal, and get to learn about Jesus. So by sponsoring a child, you’re not only practically investing in their lives and future, but also providing a tangible way for them to learn about Jesus, and possibly spend eternity in Heaven. It costs $32 a month (about a donut a day) to sponsor a child – you can find out more here and sponsor children here.

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Easter Question: Where was Jesus for 3 days?

Suraj Reddy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:25 +0000

This is something I wasn’t sure about for a while – for some reason I thought that he might have gone to Hell, done things there etc., which probably got into my head through some false teaching. Either way, I recently happened upon this video from Marc Driscoll clearly explaining what happened. All the work that Jesus had to do was finished on the cross, and Jesus was in paradise following his death by crucifixion.

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