BAPTISM IS A WASHING surrounded by prayers and other ritual actions. It initiates a person into both the local Christian fellowship and the world-wide church. Most worship books assume the celebration of baptism at either the Sunday morning service or at another public worship event. Many questions surround baptism, but the most pressing is why […]
Pilgrimages to our spiritual and historical roots: Part 2 The hundred Singapore Methodists who travelled with Bishop Dr Robert Solomon all returned spiritually refreshed, carrying with them lasting memories of what they had seen and learned. At their reunions from time to time, they would recount these highlights, which were like the “mementos” travellers come home […]
Some couples fight so regularly it is as if they, like boxers, are responding to the ringing of a bell. Some couples re-ignite their bitter fights over the most petty issues. Other couples have grown so exhausted of fighting that they just refuse to communicate or even look at each other. They simply coexist in the same home.
“How can we use our tongues to sing the most sublime praises to God, and then go for lunch after church and enjoy slandering a brother or engage in coarse speech, or go to work on Monday and lie about the products we are selling?” AN EGYPTIAN DESERT FATHER (in the early centuries of the […]
DISCIPLESHIP IMPORTANT “It would be odd to look to revivals to address a problem if we do not acknowledge that we have failed. To ask for revival is, in fact, admitting that we are sick or dying … Just as preventive measures taken early may help a person not become sick, paying attention to discipleship […]
THE REV DR WEE BOON HUP (above), 61, has been elected the new Bishop of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS). He will be consecrated on Dec 7, 2012. Currently serving his second term as the President of Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC), he was elected Bishop on the 6th ballot at the church’s 10th Session […]
AT SOME POINT IN TIME, a fellow Christian or even an acquaintance may have asked you this question: “Which church do you attend?” Without hesitation the answer is given. Would it have made a difference if you were asked, “To which church do you belong?” I believe it would. I have grown up with a […]
KUALA LUMPUR – The early missionaries were actually the pioneers in establishing schools in Malaysia. They were the church pastors and the school principals and teachers. Land was bought for church and school, or donated by some generous, well-meaning person. Methodist mission schools had their beginnings in the 1880s when the Rev William F. […]
We All Are One In Mission We all are one in mission, We all are one in call, Our varied gifts united By Christ, the Lord of all. A single, great commission Compels us from above To plan and work together at all may know Christ’s love. We all are called for service To witness […]
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) THOMAS AQUINAS is perhaps the most influential theologian in the Western Christian tradition, next to Augustine. Born in 1225 at Roccasecca, which stood midway between Rome and Naples, he entered the great Benedictine abbey of Montecassino at the age of five to begin his studies. When his family transferred him to the […]
