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Articles
"Being Good Christian Citizens and Facing the Contemporary Social Challenges" Comments
Life After Death: Reincarnation or Resurrection? Comments
Jesus Christ and the Two Natures - Compatible or Incompatible?
The Divine Human Interface in Jesus Christ
Comments
Yoga and Meditation : Relaxation Or Religion? Comments
Priority Christian Living in the Present Perplexing World Comments
The Lost Tomb of Jesus: Searching the Living among the Dead -- An article by Jerry Thomas Comments
Unpublished Letters to Editor
Reason, Open Discussion, the Da Vinci Code, and Truth
View the comments on this article here!
Homiletics – Preparing Preaching Biblical Sermons” Course @ HITHA with Dr. C. S. Dutt, Ph. D
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(new) An Overview Of Ephesians 4:1-6 Sudhakar Mondithoka speaking on Velugu TV
Asaliana Prashna Sisaliana Javabu with Sudhakar Mondithoka form USA On 31- 08- 2013.
Asaliana Prashna Sisaliana Javabu (about Quran ) 5-5-2013 with S. Mondithoka.
Asaliana Prashna Sisaliana Javabu with S. Mondithoka on 25-12-2011.
Asaliana Prashna Sisaliana Javabu with S. Mondithoka on Trinity 17-2-2013 PArt - 2.
Photos of the First Annual Church Retreat of the Indian Christian Church of Sacramento (ICCS)
Do I have the Right Kind of Faith? - the Greatness of the Great Faith of the Canaanite Woman
Videos of the Refutation of the Islamic Arguments Against
the Death and Resurrection of Jesus by Naren Sudhakar Mondithoka of
Sakshi Apologetics Network in India:
Encouraging feedback March 2013
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Itinerary for 2018
April 4 and 5: Santhi - Women's Retreats in Guntakal and Nandikotkuru (Kurnool District) - Praise the Lord that these meetings went well and many women were greatly blessed and challenged by the teachings from the Word of God. There were several hundreds who were blessed in these retreats. PTL.
6: Santhi - Certificate in Women's Ministry classes at HITHA - whole day (again the students are all excited and learning a great deal and they are already experiencing positive changes in many areas of their lives and ministry).
7: Sudhakar - Starting the New Course on "Major World Religions" at HITHA (class meets only on Saturdays) - it was a good start - I gave the students an overview of the course and did some preliminary teaching on the methods of study of World Religions.
9: Sudhakar - CMAG (Christian Men's Accountability Group) Monthly Get-together - four solid hours of saying verses from memory (this is a regular discipline for us), studying, sharing, and then praying and all this topped off with a fellowship meal - this is a discipleship group and we meet once a week knowing that unless we are ourselves being disciple, we cannot disciple others and we were all greatly blessed and motivated to love the Lord and live for the Lord and His Mission (being disciples and making others His disciples).
10 & 11: Sudhakar - BCM (Bible Centered Ministries) International-India Supervisors' Capacity Building Conference - teaching and equipping in Hyderabad - there were 25 leaders and I did 4 sessions on the 10th and 3 sessions on the 11th on Discipleship, Stewardship, Church Growth, and Sustainability of the Church. The Lord blessed the teaching greatly and people were impacted and they have been giving very encouraging feedback. PTL.
12: Sudhakar - Speaking in a Wedding in Kurnool (cousin's son's wedding) - there were some 25 pastors and leaders on the stage and a couple of thousands who attended the wedding and the Lord empowered me to speak from Genesis 2: 15-25 on the "7 principles from the Maker's (and also User's) Manual for a Happy and Fruitful Marriage" and the Lord touched and blessed the couple and also all those gathered and many met with me and thanked me for the ministry of the word of God. All glory to the Lord.
12 & 13: Santhi - Certificate in Women's Ministry classes at HITHA (Thursday morning 9:30 am to 1:30 pm and Friday evening 5:30 to 9:00 pm) - once again the classes went very well with some group assignments and solid teaching by Santhi (Bible Study Methods) and Sai Krishna Gomatam (Biblical Hebrew) and we had to stop taking more students as we already have some 54 students in each section. Praise the Lord for this amazing response to this program. Please do continue to pray for the students and the faculty (mainly Santhi)
14: Sudhakar - Classes at HITHA (course on Major World Religions - 9:30 am to 1:30 pm - -we had a wonderful time on the 14th with 15 students (registered) including 4 women and they were all charged up and motivated to do this course and study hard knowing that this is going to be of great help in the ministry of evangelism/witness, which is a job that the Lord Jesus entrusted to all His disciples (who are identified as WITNESSES). Life In Christ (LIC) Ministries Evangelistic Camp for Osmania University PG Students & P. Hd., Scholars - two talks/lectures (in the evening - 4:00 to 8:00 pm) in Hyderabad – 1) Can we believe in God in this Age of Science and Technology? And What is God like? And then 2) “Are All Religions Really Teaching Us About the Same God? Is there anything Unique About Christ? After each of these talks we also had some time for Q&A and when I gave an invitation about 25 of them invited Jesus into their lives (and some with tears rolling down their cheeks). PTL. Many met with me and shared about how they were blessed. What was very encouraging for me was that most them were present in a Christmas Meeting in Osmania University in which I spoke in December 2017 and this was a follow-up meeting (with 110 in attendance. I could also go online and answer one question in the Asalaina Prashna Sisalaina Jawaabu Live TV program on Rakshana TV (a Live Q&A session on Christian Response to Persecution/Attacks in Telugu language).
18-21: Sudhakar - New Life Associates' Pastors' Conference (teaching along with Rev. Dr. Joseph Kishore on the subject of the "Holy Spirit") in Hyderabad and classes at HITHA (course on Major World Religions on the 21st from 9:30 to 1:30) – I will be doing sessions on 1) The Fruit of the Holy Spirit, 2) Are the Supernatural Gifts for Today? 3) How and for What End should we Use the God-given Spiritual/Ministry Gifts, and couple of other relevant topics in the Pastors’ Conference.
19 & 20: Santhi - Certificate in Women's Ministry classes at HITHA (Thursday morning 9:30 am to 1:30 pm and Friday evening 5:30 to 9:00 pm)
24: Sudhakar - Speaking in the Memorial Service of the Gera family, in Vijayawada
26 & 27: Santhi - Certificate in Women's Ministry classes at HITHA (Thursday morning 9:30 am to 1:30 pm and Friday evening 5:30 to 9:00 pm)
27: Sudhakar - GTCM (Global Telugu Christian Ministries) Board Meeting in Hyderabad (has been the Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees)
28: Santhi - Sudha Livingstone Gadde Memorial Charitable Trust Board Meeting in Hyderabad (has been the treasurer of the Trust)
28: Sudhakar - classes at HITHA (course on Major World Religions - 9:30 am to 1:30 pm)
29: Sudhakar – speaking evangelistically in the last day meeting of a three-day evangelistic series of public meetings in Kothapeta, Near Ravulapalem (in Government Junior College Grounds).
May 1: Sudhakar – A Christian Conclave on the Mission of God (in Telugu language) – a panel presentation and Q&A – will be LIVE ON Face Book – along with Dr. Sudhir Jangam, Rev. Sai Krishan Gomatam, Bro. Suresh Vanguri and anchored by Pastor Joseph Ravi Kanth and Bro. Daniel Solomon
To God be the glory!
FM 101.9 Radio Program featuring Sudhakar Mondithoka on 23rd from 5.30 pm
Nephilim:Sons of God and Daughters of Men Comments
"The Wounded Healer (In Telugu) -- written by Santhi Mondithoka"
"The Wounded Healer (In English) -- written by Santhi Mondithoka"
Comments
Answering the Dawah/Islamic Critics of Christianity Organized by Sakshi Apologetics Network and HITHA (31 July 2010) : Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka (Telugu) Bro. Jerry Thomas (English)
Lent season - Apologetics Related Questions Asalaina Prashna, Sisalaina Jawabu (Telugu) : Live Q A Session on Rakshana TV : Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka Bro. Benhur Jakkula
Is Jesus Christ just a Prophet? Asalaina Prashna, Sisalaina Jawabu (Telugu) : Live Q A Session on Rakshana TV : Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka Bro. Benhur Jakkula
Asalaina Prashna, Sisalaina Jawabu (Telugu) : Live Q A Session on Rakshana TV : Answer to a Question about Cloning : Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka Bro. Benhur Jakkula
Asalaina Prashna, Sisalaina Jawabu (Telugu) : Live Q A Session on Rakshana TV : Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka Bro. Benhur Jakkula
Search For Truth Series : Audio Sermons (in Telugu language)
Did HE rise from the dead?
Complete Copies can be ordered from sudhakar@mondithokas.com Or sudhakarm@yahoo.com
50th Birth Day – 50 years of God’s goodness – Some Reflections Comments
Trinity-A Biblical and Theological Analysis
Photos of Ministry in Kuwait, September and October 2010
The Spiritual Discipline of Systematic Bible Intake
Life After Death: Reincarnation or Resurrection? Comments
The DVDs of the 5 Tremendous Messages of Rev. Sunder Krishnan on Living as Called People in a Driven World are available. Please contact for your set.
Faith Beyond Reason: A Balanced Biblical View of Faith -- Expanded Version
Written for and Published in The Greater Hyderabad United Christmas Celebrations' Souvineir. The Characters Around the First Christmas
Families and the Purposes of God - Ministry through Families -- Expanded version
Do I have the Right Kind of Faith?
Characteristics of a Christian Leader The Telugu translation of this article is now published in VJ, April issue.
A shorter version of the following article was written for Vidyarthi Jwala was published in the December Issue (in Telugu).
The What and Why of Apologetics: A Very Short Introduction of Christian Apologetics
Theology and Practice of Christian Giving
Renewed Mind and Transformed Life
Here are the first three of four messages delivered at regional graduates conference. The first article is now published in Harvest Times for Your Family, the GLS magazine.
Check back for the rest of the messages.
Message1-Being Holy Because God is Holy
Message2-What it means for us to be holy
Message3-Holiness in Thought Life
David and his Three Military Chiefs: Learning Some Spiritual Lessons from a Battle Scene
Applied Apologetics: Conversations/Dialogues that Count
Should we see God in order to believe that He exists? Comments
What is the sex of God? Is God a He or She or an It? Comments
Does the Christian idea of God as Trinity make sense? Comments
The Qur'an or the Bible? Which one is the Word of God for All Humanity? Comments
We trust you are all doing well! How are you doing? We pray for you from time to time although we are not able to keep in touch with you regularly. Santhi was away in Guntakal and then Kurnool (Nandikotkur actually) for women's retreats - had some very powerfully impacting ministry with hundreds in attendance. She spoke the whole day in Guntakal and then did two sessions (in Nandikotkur). Now (April 16, 2018) she is teaching Pastors' Wives in Guntur and will teach in a Bible College also for two days (she will return on Wednesday).
I got back from Singapore on the morning of 3rd April and that whole day I was busy working on an article for the Rakshana TV Magazine (in Telugu on Science and Bible/Christianity) and then got busy with the Auditing of the Accounts of HITHA for 2017-2018. It is all done now and we got the Audit Reports and Audited Financial Statements. We have outstanding loans of Rs. 32, 00, 000/ that we need to pay back (because we purchased the facility for HITHA in March last year, 2017 and since then we could not clear these loans - we are trusting in the Lord and praying and waiting).
Update from Singapore sent on April 3rd
Greetings from Singapore. Reached safely on Good Friday and finished one assignment in the afternoon - Good Friday Service and then the 2nd meeting (evangelistic). 20-25 people responded to the gospel and others made a commitment to spread the good news. I will return on the 3rd. Yesterday (31st of March) I recorded 4 videos on some important issues and then spoke to 120 people-around 20 responded to the gospel truth and many were challenged to be bold and faithful disciples. Please pray for today/Easter Sunday - a Q&A session - it went well (it was all video recorded) and then one Easter Service - getting ready now -finished and around 20 responded to the gospel and many more dedicated to the task of being witnesses (this was also video recorded). All praise to the Lord. I am leaving for India tonight (Monday) - in fact, I reached Hyderabad yesterday, Tuesday morning (3rd of April).
Santhi has been teaching (two days in every week - Thursday morning and Friday evening) a New Program - Certificate in Women's Ministry at HITHA and some other faculty are just supporting her (teaching some segments) for the last several weeks. This has been very demanding (3-4 hours of teaching each day). There are over 50 women students in each batch or section (PTL) - this is a great encouragement for us.
Please do pray for the HITHA fund-raising event, which got postponed (we wanted to have it on the 14th) and we will fix the date and let you all know again (for prayer). This is the first of its kind - we never had anything like this before and we are inviting just a select few of our friends who know of us and the work we are doing at HITHA (as it was decided in the board meeting in January). We have to clear an amount of about Rs. 32, 00, 000/ (interest-free loans) - we could not pay back any amount from last March (we got the property registered on the name of HITHA on the 31st of March 2017).
Please do let us know of any prayer concerns that you might have - we would love to pray for you all specifically.
With many thanks to each of you.
In the Lord and His Mission,Sudhakar & Santhi Mondithoka
Please pray that we might have more students taking courses or doing full study programs at HITHA (Hyderabad Institute of Theology and Apologetics), so that the financial burden of running the college might be reduced and with the same investment of time and resources more blessing might result.
- Please pray that Santhi might be able to finish her work on the Commentary om the Book of Ruth for the South Asia Bible Commentary project (by the end of this month).
- Please pray for God’s blessing on all our speaking, writing, and other ministry engagements and also for Santhi’s Ph. D studies at/through SAIACS-Mysore University.
- Please pray for Shamuel as he is going to begin his new school year soon (from the 13th) and he is now going into class 6
- Please pray that I might get selected for the Ph. D program through OCMS (Oxford Center for Mission Studies) that I have applied for and for the financial support for me to pursue doctoral studies. If I do get selected I will have to be in Oxford for 10 weeks from October beginning and then six weeks every following year (may be three to four years in all).
Reason Vs. Faith -- Sudhakar's comment Published in Hyderbad Times, Times of India, October 7, 2007, p. 1.
God has given humans the ability to think rationally and the right to express themselves freely. The right to expression is also constitutionally guaranteed in a democracy. I am for that freedom. However, freedom comes with responsibility. I cannot do whatever I want to, particularly if it infringes upon others' freedom.
When Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was published, I argued for his freedom of speech, and so did many churches. It was not banned in Christian communities in Europe and America. However, highly qualified clergy and even secular scholars responded to his views in a scholarly way.
So, it is about understanding each other in reasonable, logical ways. There can be a healthy debate. Reason has a valid role to play in understanding and communicating faith in a friendly and respectful manner. But Fundamentalism expresses itself in emotional outbursts and if we are emotional then our reason goes down. Loudness of an argument and low levels of logic generally go hand in hand and this is not good.
The Lord is good and faithful and all glory and praise be to Him alone. Here are the comments from some who sent 'thank you notes' after different conferences & meetings over the past two months:
- For the first time in my life I realized that I should reason out my faith and grow stronger- deeper in and more confident about my faith
- I realized how important apologetics is for me as a Christian both in my life and in my ministry
- I realized that in the present world being a Christian without the knowledge of apologetics is very difficult
- It was liberating to know that it is alright for me to have doubts and that I could share them with others and receive help from them
- My approach to Christian life and ministry has been changed for better as I have been exposed to the scriptural teaching on the place of mind in Christian discipleship
SAIACS News, Dec. 2005 carried this News Item about the Modular Course that Rev. Mondithoka taught in the month of Sept. 2005 to the M. A 2nd year students:
In Defense of ApologeticsChristian Apologetics, since its appearance in the realm of theological education, has continued to be one of the much sought after subjects by students world over. Guess what! SAIACS offered a full module on 'Contemporary World Religions and Christian Apologetics' to the MA second year students in September. The course instructor, Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) from Chennai was brilliant. He taught us from his wide experience and knowledge. Through his dynamic, befitting, and at times even forceful lectures, Mondithoka made the students realize the importance of knowing other religious faiths and the uses of Apologetics for effective communication of the Gospel. As a part of the course requirement, the students were sent in small groups of three or four to meet and share the Gospel with people other faiths outside SAIACS Campus. This turned out to be an outstanding module.
-(Sam K. John, MA II)
One of the students in the class wrote . . .
Dear.Sir,
. . . I take this privilege to thank you for your commitment for us. We have learnt so much from you. Before sitting in your class, there seemed to be so many gray areas in life. But now, everything seems to be more black and white. You have made ethical issues so much simpler. We will always remain indebted to you for your efforts. I am always impressed by your energy!
I hope we will have the opportunity to sit in your class again soon. God bless.
Milton Terang
Response to the talk on the Da Vinci Code:
Once student wrote the following (many others had similar things to say in their thank you notes)
I am raju, came to JESUS as my personal Saviour in 2003.i am doing my engineering in bhimavaram. i am a member of iceu bvrm. i attended a seminar on dvc (Da Vinci Code) at our city center. i was in hyd last Sunday. It was very useful for me as i got good information about dvc and i thank GOD for dvc bcoz now i can answer my friends questions.
Anna, I really thank GOD for ur family. i want to know some more information regarding dvc and other contemporary issues. Please send me the names of the sites, which i hope will help me to worship my Lord with my whole mind.
thanking u,
ur thammudu (= younger brother)
raju b.
ANNA (big brother), Praise the Lord. Anna, your way of expression and manner of treating people and their questions is excellent. I like you very much. Some collection of your sermons and your articles is helping me in knowing God. You are my spiritual master. My name is Koteswar Rao. I am about 32 and am working as a teacher. Anna I am very happy because of you. Presently I am living in Hyderabad at Borabanda.
Encouraging feedback
Respected Sir,
Greetings to you in His Holy Name!
I am glad that I could attend the Sunday service on last Sunday i.e. 11.01.2009 and could hear the message on Families and God’s purposes. It was wonderful. After my completion of M.Th, now I am involved in teaching ministry at COTR Theological Seminary in Visakhapatnam. I was there in Secunderabad for 5 days to attend the personal Contact Programme of MSW through Annamalai University. It was Prabhu who told me that there is English service at Centenary Baptist Church. As soon as I heard that you are going to preach there, I rushed to the Church.
Now, I am tempted to attend the service just to hear the series of message that you started last Sunday. But practically I am not able to make it possible. Anyhow, I have received the written message from your website but I am really missing the opportunity of hearing from you directly.
Sir, the recent persecution made me to change my ministry place and now we are preparing prayerfully to move to Orissa. Therefore, may be by next April or May we will move from here. Please pray for us. Along with one Oriya brother who is a business man living in Hyderabad have discussed to conduct a meeting and to take you as main speaker to our hometown (Utkal Baptist Church – Prabhu Kumar has visited our Church) Church in Orissa. Pray that God may grant us His grace to fulfill our plan for His glory. Please continuously pray for us. We are praying for you. Now, if you are in SABC, please convey our regard to Jyithikanth Sadhu and Sanjukta. Thanking you. Please convey our regard to Santhi madam.
In His Grace,
Lalit Kumar Bardhan
COTR Theological Seminary,
Dorathota, Box- 3
Bheemunipatnam Post
Visakhapatnam – 531 163.
*** It is all the Lord's doing and we are privileged to be His servants – we are His servants and we have just done what we are called to do, that is, our duty. So all glory to Him alone.