Andrew's Parchments

Heard of the Temple Baptist Church, Philadelphia..? Its really a very beautiful and an enormous church  with a seating capacity of 3,300, and   Temple University , where hundreds of students are trained.   This church has history which is really amazing, especially the cost incurred in building it. It was started with only 57 cents....! amazing isn't it...?! Temple Baptist Church - old days                                     Temple Baptist Church - today                                                The auditorium  Well there is a true and a touching story behind this. The story goes... A sobbing little girl stood near a small  church  from which  she had been turned away because it ‘was too crowded’.  “I can’t go to  Sunday School ,” she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by. Seeing her shabby,unkempt appearance, the pastor guessed the reason and, taking her by the hand, took her inside and found a place for her in the Sunday School class. The child was so touched that

Well, here we are, half way through June and finally the monsoons have set in and I'm back, trying to keep my blog going. As I was pondering on what should I blog about, many ideas came up and finally decided to blog on this one, a rather peculiar topic but an interesting one when you get to know about. And also blogging about this would do justice to the title of my blog. Calligraphy is the art of writing, as we all know. The main instrument used in calligraphy is a calligraphy pen and of course followed by the skill. It is obvious that the pen used for calligraphy is a fountain pen, yes...its right, but the only thing is that calligraphy pens have a flexible nib for thin and thick strokes, that's whats gives the name calligraphy pens or flex.  So what is this Flex nib or Flex?....how do they look like and what makes them different from the conventional fountain pens?..... Flexible nibs produce variation in line thickness by applying high pressure on down strokes a

"Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit the kingdom?" asked the rich young ruler when he met Jesus on the way to Jerusalem, and Jesus said unto him "Follow the commandments and you shall inherit the kingdom" and the man readily answered "Master i have been following them since my childhood, what else do i need to do?" and then Jesus said "If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me." So when the man heard this, he left away sad, because he was very rich. And then Jesus started to teach from this incident  to his disciples saying "Its much harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle"...this passage can be found in Mat 19:16-23.. Here, we often tend to take the metaphoric meaning and are not aware that Jesus dint mean it metaphorically... Yes....! this is true. In Jerusalem,

After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer,the judge banged his gavel declaring, 'Case dismissed.'..... The case was created by an atheist against the Easter & Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews & observances of their holy days. The argument was, it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized day(s). As soon the judge declared it, the lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, 'Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter & others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur & Hanukkah. Yet my client & all other atheists have no such holidays.' The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, 'But you do. Your client, counsel, is woefully ignorant.' The lawyer said, 'Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists.' The judge said, 'The calendar says April