The Methodist School of Music (MSM) equips and edifies both the individual and the church through music and the performing arts. Find out more at msmusic.edu.sg.It’s the middle of the morning. Claire, my newborn, is fast asleep. What a perfect opportunity to write. Alas, that opportunity is dashed when Claire lets out a cry—it’s time […]
Then-TRAC President Rev Dr Wong enjoyed a warm working relationship with the TRAC staff Some are placed in positions of spiritual authority within the Church because of dramatic, extraordinary encounters with God that transformed them irrevocably. Others have been quite the opposite—where God walked with them from young, moulding and preparing them along the way […]
The great ecumenical creeds of the Christian Church—the Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed—begin with the declaration that the Church believes in God, the Father. The fatherhood of God is the fundamental tenet of Christianity that not only distinguishes it from other religions, but also from other versions of theism. Yet as theologian Thomas Smail […]
I remember reading Ravi Zacharias’ book I, Isaac, take Thee, Rebekah many years ago whilst on vacation, and found the book to contain much-needed wisdom on marriage from a Christian perspective (despite me still being single then). One portion from the book has remained entrenched in my mind ever since: “First and foremost, do not […]
ETAC Board on Missions Thanksgiving Service 2021 The Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) Board on Missions held a thanksgiving service on 10 April 2021: “Missions Then, Missions Now”. It was a hybrid service with some participants on-site and others on Zoom. It was a time to praise God for His faithfulness to ETAC and to […]
A father’s reflections on suffering My wife and I have three children born between 1991 and 1996. They were all born healthy and developed normally in their early years. They were also very bubbly and bright. However, between the ages of five and seven, they started showing signs of degeneration. Two years after I went […]
A Pioneer Talks about Learning from the Dying In 2021, Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) celebrates 40 years of empowering life to the full. This is the first in a series of stories from people who have been on this journey with MWS. They include MWS co-founders and leaders, volunteers, beneficiaries, donors, staff, and representatives […]
John Pravin serves as the ETAC Methodist Youth Fellowship President and as a Youth Leader in Ang Mo Kio Tamil Methodist Church. As I reflected on what being a Methodist means to me, I could not help but think of what it is not: exclusive. Salvation is not only for the “most upright”, nor is […]
Each time I run my counselling course, I set the students an essay that asks them to draw their family tree and examine how their family has shaped them. This exercise can be illuminating as they trace how their values, habits and even temperament may be linked with their parents’ and with family events during […]
As our modern society celebrates Father’s Day in June, I remember the apostle Paul’s prayer to God, whom he describes as “the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name” (Eph 3:15–16, NIV 2011). I like the translation offered by Bishop Tom Wright1: “I am kneeling down before the father, […]
