METHODIST Missions Society missionaries, Francis and Angela Lim, are using agriculture as a platform to proclaim the Word to reach out to the villagers in Fujian Province, China with much success. They have been living with the farmers and the community in a village there for more than a year, training them to practise […]
GRACE AND BEHAVIOUR ‘The New Testament is clear – believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved by grace through faith. Is that all there is to it? Actually no! Behaviour after conversion affects the outcome.’ – The Rev Dr Ben Witherington, III addressing 400 people at an evening talk. WHAT do we […]
National Council of Churches of Singapore hosts Community Engagement Games Day SPORTS and games have always enjoyed a universal following. People engage in them and other physical activities for fun, recreation and even for health reasons. Recently, a Christian body appropriated such activities to serve another purpose – to foster inter-racial and inter-religious harmony. The Christian […]
Donald Moore, a British businessman, visited Sarawak nearly 50 years ago and recounts in a letter from Kapit aspects of the life of the Iban people, particularly those who had become Christians and who had a sense of mission. ‘“ THERE will be a big gawai (festival) this year.” This statement can be heard all along […]
HE WAS barely 20 when he started keeping a spiritual journal. He wrote down his thoughts and prayers regularly for the rest of his life – which was to end eight years later, when he was tragically killed. His journal entries reflect a maturity way beyond his age, and a deep commitment and devotion to […]
CAN a person be rich, powerful and yet unhappy? Well, Zaccheus was such a man. But why was Zaccheus not happy? Firstly, could it be that he was socially alienated? You see, he was a tax collector. He collected taxes from the Jewish people for the occupying Roman empire. In the eyes of the nationalists, […]
It is giving to God what He desires and requires of us WORSHIP is a matter of giving to God what He desires and requires of us. It is not, and never was, intended to be a spectator sport or the performance of the few for the benefit of the many couch potatoes in the […]
LONDON – Ms Ruby Beech’s “day job” is a position that dates back to at least the 15th Century. As an Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms in the British Parliament, Ms Beech, 51, helps look after the security and administration of the House of Commons. When she is not making sure British lawmakers can do their jobs […]
MENSA is an exclusive organisation composed of those who are deemed to be geniuses. Only the truly intelligent need apply. They have meetings where they express their erudition and a newsletter of the same name that is, presumably, full of intelligent and brilliant insights. Doctors and scientists and members of “think tanks” join this group. They […]
TRAC WSCS Silent Retreat at Botanic Gardens THIS was an unusual silent retreat. It was a two-hour “Wander and Wonder Walk with Jesus” at the Botanic Gardens on April 5, 2008. Organised by the Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) Women’s Society of Christian Service (WSCS), the purpose of the retreat was for the participants to get […]
