Every now and then, I hear the remark that a person has had “an encounter with God”. This is said to account for the noticeable change that has taken place in that person’s life. Often the conversation refers to a person who had been a nominal Christian, a sceptic, or even one who did not […]
Let us not draw any more false distinctions between “having faith in God” and “getting involved in the theology stuff”. The two belong together in a healthy Christian life. May we not put asunder what God has joined together. Once at a dedication service for some undergraduates who were going on a mission trip, […]
I stood that day away from the Cross-silhouette hill Afraid to look, yet aware of the figure so still– He was the one they called Jesus of Nazareth. Once a babe of lowly birth Then a man who walked the earth Teaching the worth of life And love’s win over strife. I stood that […]
Without doubt, these servants of the Lord are not to be merely mourned, but to be celebrated – their candles, I do think, continue to cast light through the legacy of their lives and service. O death, where is thy sting? 1 Corinthians 15:55 I am truly amazed. I recently had the privilege of stepping back […]
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 Having studied many individuals who have fallen because of particular weakness in their lives, I realise we are all human and weakness matters. Allow me to share two thoughts about weakness. 1. We […]
Rooting our children in Christ, growing them in the faith and giving them wings to go where God wills – these must form our primary education to our children. We run a real risk of inadvertently breeding a generation of “trophy kids”. These are children who see themselves as so special that they have come […]
Silence has many hues and intensities, permeating and saturating the rice paper of consciousness with images imprinted from the hinterland and groves of feeling. There is the frozen silence between friends, marking a rift, that can grow into a chasm as altercations turn astringent and fester into silence. There is the silence […]
“May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me.” John 17:21 (New Jerusalem Bible) On my way to church one Sunday morning, I decided to count how […]
“Many of us tend to think of Christian Unity as the icing on the cake – it’s nice, it’s sweet, but it is not necessary.” The Rev Dr Gordon Wong gave this apt comparison in his homily during the first service of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, held Jan 21 this year at Trinity […]
Like the migrant workers we minister to, Seletar Tamil Methodist Church (Seletar TMC) has had a history of migration, beginning in the 1920s during the British rule, when many Indian nationals came to Singapore. They started working in areas where the British army was well-established; those working in the Royal Air Force base at Seletar […]
