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“Kill Death” - New Year’s Telecast Transcript presented by Dr. Ramesh Richard, PhD, ThD rameshrichard.com The man was in the habit of reading the obituary column in the newspaper everyday. He often wondered why people died in alphabetical order, but satisfied that his name wasn't there proceeded [...]
(Y)OUR WORD FOR 2020 (AND BEYOND) December 2019 by Ramesh Richard Limits characterize life. Humans experience physical and psychological limitations, geographical and chronological parameters, cultural and intellectual boundaries. Call it finitude. We may try to maximize this existential reality, and we must. Some even break human limits in [...]
by Ramesh Richard October 2019 God has patiently put up with a history of leaders who defect—of whom I am one. I defect often. Although I am more aware of my sins of commission than omission, my every sin denies and defies allegiance to the [...]
Non-Profit Organizations, Business Growth and Fund Raising by Ramesh Richard April 2000 Intense anxiety hung over the US delegation during a most joyous moment in Christian history. Some missions leaders attending the Global Consultation on World Evangelization (May 1995 in Seoul, Korea) faced the possible [...]
by Ramesh Richard April 2019 Searching for worship music and sneakers on the internet, a young man started noticing a strange occurrence. Several Christian pastors wore rather expensive sneakers in the pictures on their church websites. The shoes ranged from $600 to $3,000. This trend [...]
by Ramesh RichardApril 2015What Should We Do?In 2015 when the 21 young men were beheaded on a Libyan beach by the savagery of ISIS, I was overcome, like you, with deep sorrow. Their ages and complexion resembled my own two sons. It felt like our Ryan [...]
Your First Name (and my One Word) for the New Year By Ramesh Richard November 2018 *Ramesh Richard "It’s not about you!" opens a famous book in recent North American Christianity. There’s even an entire book by that [...]
“Lessons I Am Learning From the Lord” by D. John Richard October 2018 Ramesh Richard with his father, John Ramesh Richard’s Preface: I usually write a biblical-theological-practical reflection to open this publication, but I would like to [...]
Replacing the "Evangelicals!" August 2018 Ramesh Richard by Ramesh Richard A devotional this article is not, but it still might warm the heart, stimulate the mind and inspire awareness for action. Thank you, dear friend, in advance for your [...]
February 2018 *Ramesh Richard by Ramesh Richard "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John." Upon this important occasion of bidding a temporary farewell to my father, allow me to stretch that introduction of John the Baptizer in John 1:6 into [...]
December 2017 by Ramesh Richard The number one request I receive after classes is simply: "Can we have your PowerPoint?" You know PowerPoint presentations have become ubiquitous for communicators. To visually oriented audiences, PowerPoint slides help move a presentation forward, aid comprehension and enhance memory of [...]
October 2017 by Ramesh Richard Over its first 1,300 years, "Christianity" increasingly separated from the Bible and developed a salvation grammar of its own. The Faith dislodged itself from the parameters of the Scripture’s epistemological (i.e., how we know what we know) foundation. The nouns of [...]