Pastor. Servant. Author.
Pastor Alfred Cherubim
Pastor S. Alfred Cherubim hails from a Tamil family from Sri Lanka, on completion of his studies he served the Government of Sri Lanka as an Agricultural Officer and later joined the National Council of the YMCAs of Sri Lanka and served as the Pioneer Director of the YMCA Youth Training Centre and then he served as the Associate National General Secretary of the  N.C of the YMCAs of Sri Lanka.
He and his family were the victims of the ethnic riots of 1983 in Sri Lanka which made them to move to India and served the YMCAs of Hyderabad and the National YMCAs of India in New Delhi. He lived in India with his family for nearly seven years during this period he also engaged himself with Evangelical work and brought many people to the Lord as full believers. Two of the believers whom he led to Christ are full-time pastors now and established Churches in Andhra Pradesh, India.
In 1990 he returned with his family to Sri Lanka and started an orphanage called “COME HOME” (Children Out of Motherly Embrace, Hope Offered with Maternal Enfold) for the children who lost their parents during the ethnic riots. He together with his wife Mary Cherubim adopted 53 children (Boys) and gave them education and brought them in the fear our Good Lord. Out of them three children became full time Pastor and few of them as faithful leaders who are serving our Lord in different Churches in Sri Lanka.
Pastor Cherubim and his family moved to Canada in 2001 and he established Redeemer Christ Assembly in Brampton and serving the Lord in Canada. He has written and published seven Christian Tamil Books and two English books. Weekly, he writes Christian Articles to two popular secular Tamil News Papers and Monthly, articles to a Christian News Paper. He used to visit many countries to preach and witness in many Tamil Churches through which many people have accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour.
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This Scripture-rich book explores what Pastor Alfred Cherubim, describes as, “five vital truths about love” God loves unconditionally; He commands us to love; we are unable, in our own strength, to love as God loves; we can receive empowerment from God to enable us to love supernaturally; and we are able to access that love through faith in the Savior Jesus Christ.
The author maintains that each person’s greatest need is to love and be loved, and he unwraps for the reader the distinctions in three Greek words translated into the one English word “love.” Cited are: eros, sensual desire; phileo, love for an individual deemed worthy of love; and agape, God’s love, the purest, deepest love expressed, not merely through emotions, but through an act of one’s will. The author then centers the book around the Bible’s love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, and agape, the supernatural, unconditional love, supremely revealed through Jesus’s death on the cross for our sins.
This love, the author asserts, is the love the Lord wants to produce in us and through us to others by His Holy Spirit. This agape love is given, he contends because of the character of the person loving rather than because of the worthiness of the object of that love. Sometimes it is love “in spite of” rather than “because of.” Pastor Alfred argues that individuals can only be moved to live in and share agape love when in relationship with the living God, Jesus Christ. He illustrates the nature of this love through stories drawn from the Bible {The Parable of the Prodigal Son) and from his own personal experience: a hospitalized child reenergized for life through the agape love of a teacher, a man filled with hatred toward everything and everyone who was transformed by agape love.
