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  Kingsley Thesiganesan Muttiah was born on May 7, 1935, as the 3 rd Son of Rev. and Mrs. D.N. Muttiah of the Methodist Church Sri Lanka. He was Inducted as the President of the Methodist Church Sri Lanka in August 1990 and led the church with distinction. His untimely death took place while he was in office in the final year of his term as the President of Methodist Church Sri Lanka. The 29th Death Anniversary falls on the 29 th of October. This article is written in celebration of our personal friendship with him, Grace his wife, David, Niruban and Jessica. In January 1984 I was stationed in the Kandy Circuit of the Methodist Church. This was my second posting and the final year during the three-year probationary period before ordination. Having worked under a strict but very caring superintendent minister like the late Rev. L. Victor Salgadoe in the first two years of probation, I was rather apprehensive about how things would turn out between me and Rev. Kingsley Muttiah the ne

  Judgement in Zephania’s prophesy I received through social media another Bible verse or a prophecy which is circulating with reference to Gaza – the disputed land between Israelites and Palestine. It quoted Zephaniah 2:4 “Gaza will be abandoned…” with a note saying “The truth is here in black and white written 2000 years ago…” This seems to be an excellent verse from the Bible to support the Israelites' destruction of the Palestinians. But it is a miserable position if anyone quotes only Zephaniah 2:4 without reading the entire book’s message. Zephaniah prophesied during the reign of King Josiah (640–609 B.C.), a Judean king who wanted a religious reformation together with acceptable worship practices before God (2 Kings 22:1–23:30). From the following Timeline you could see that the Prophetic ministry of Zephaniah occurred between the fall of the Kingdom of Israel and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah - both were the chosen people of God. Despite having seen the destructi

                                     Pray for the Peace between Israelites and Palestinians “The festival site - with three stages, a camping area and bar and food area - was in the Negev desert, near Kibbutz Re'im. It was not far from the Gaza Strip, from where Hamas fighters crossed over at dawn to launch their attack. They infiltrated towns and villages, taking dozens of people hostage.” The violent conflict in the contentious Gaza strip has restarted as a result of the Hamas's unexpected attack on an Israeli music celebration.   Israeli reports claim that Hamas is holding 150 hostages at now. This unexpected attack has exposed Israel's intelligence shortcoming and destroyed its sense of invincibility. Even though this conflict has been ongoing for a while, every time it flares up, it stings the residents of Gaza and Israel alike. This time, Hamas and Israel are both threatening to annihilate one another. This surpr