From My Desk

Quite recently, Mz B el, a Ghanaian music artiste was heard on live television and on a couple of radio talk shows state emphatically that Jesus Christ is a fictional character and not a historical figure as taught by the Church (and as contained in the New Testament of the Bible). Such a view is also held and expounded by a group in Ghana that calls itself Common Sense Family (a group the singer belongs to). They insist that the stories surrounding Jesus Christ as contained in the Bible were made up and claim they arrived at such conclusions through research. Their assertions have been given much publicity in the Ghanaian news media (the electronic media in particular).             Admittedly Mz B el and members of the Common Sense Family are not alone in their beliefs. They enjoy the company of several thousand across the globe and are obviously entitled to their views. However, such views do not necessarily represent t...

1    Photo: Dr. Nabeel Qureshi       It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who once opined: “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you live it.” Lucius Annaeus similarly noted: “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” Put another way, one writer state d : "It is not the years in your life that counts, it`s the life in your years." So apt !!! This brief blog post is in loving memory of a young man whose life and ministry impacted the lives of several thousands across the globe. Dr. Nabeel Qureshi (April 13, 1983 – September 16, 2017) was a devout Ex-Muslim turned Christian apologist. He earned an M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School, an M.A. in Christian Apologetics from Biola University, an M.A. in Religion from Duke University and M. Phil in Judaism and Christianity from the University of Oxford. It was while he was pursuing a Doctorate in New Testament Studies at the University of Oxford, h e was diag...