Is That Your Money Or His? An Introduction to the Stewardship of Money and Christian Prosperity Author: George Wan Tian Soo IF YOU were told to earn all you can, save all you can and then give away everything but the bare minimum, would you do it? Conditioned in an acquisitive world and […]
Seeing eye to eye on the importance of missions: The Rev Dr Nugent and Bishop Dr Solomon. — Methodist Message picture. THE retired General Secretary of the United Methodist missions board was in Singapore recently to encourage students at Trinity Theological College (TTC) to prepare for missions. The Rev Dr Randy Nugent, who retired […]
REV DR MACQUIBAN: To address the need to preserve documents. – Methodist Message picture. British scholar’s talks on March 26 METHODISM’S historical concern for the poor will be discussed on March 26 at the Methodist Centre when the British scholar, the Rev Dr Tim Macquiban, makes a return visit to Singapore. A trained archivist and […]
A YEAR ago, a schoolmate of mine, now an assistant pastor at an Assemblies of God church, asked me what my primary ministry was. I said, “My wife.” She laughed, “No, I mean in church. Do you see your main ministry as the youth or prayer or what?” And I continued my unconventional chant, “My […]
PART 6 OF THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘WISDOM TO LIVE BY: MODERN REFLECTIONS ON AN ANCIENT TEXT’ Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 IN THIS chapter, the Preacher reflects on the mystery of time in light of a profounder mystery, eternity. There is not a period in the history of thought that philosophers (and later, scientists) have not […]
KAMPONG KAPOR METHODIST CHURCH CELEBRATES 110TH ANNIVERSARY KKMC to share joy with less well-visited welfare homes KAMPONG KAPOR Methodist Church (KKMC) celebrated its 110th Anniversary on Jan 25 this year with worship in song and dance in Malay (Peranakan), Mandarin, Tamil and English – the four official languages of Singapore. Bishop Dr Robert Solomon, the […]
OF GOLD TEETH-FILLINGS AND GOLD DUST RECENTLY much excitement was generated in some churches in different parts of the world by two phenomena that have to do with gold – gold teeth-fillings and gold dust. The first phenomenon was recently reported to have occurred at the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, Sacramento, where some members of […]
CONSECRATION SERVICE OF CHURCH IN COMMONWEALTH DRIVE WAS it coincidental that Bishop Dr Robert Solomon’s exhortation to the congregations of both Faith Methodist Church and Queenstown Chinese Methodist Church was that we were “called to shine”? With a spanking new and towering five-storey building shining like a beacon in the neighbourhood, it seems the calling […]
Vera M. Edborg, a Methodist woman missionary, writes feelingly about the baptism of a Batak chief – a service conducted by the Rev Dr August Prussner, a German-born Methodist missionary who served in Sumatra, setting up and supervising churches and schools in the Batak villages of Simalungan District between 1927 and 1935. Tuan Nagori and […]
NEW YORK – In the Fujian province of China, people are drawn to Christianity through the example that church members set in their everyday lives, according to a church and seminary leader there. “We emphasise that every Christian should be a good citizen in our society,” the Rev Lin Zhihua told staff of the United […]
