Highlights

ALDERSGATE CONVENTION 2006 brought blessings to many people, including visitors from various parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, India and England as well as new friends from Christian churches outside our Methodist denomination. The four-day annual convention saw more than 1,000 people of God coming together from May 24 to 27 to give praise and thanks to our […]

Sometimes God’s ‘no’ is exactly what we need IT IS every mother’s worst nightmare. Her three-year-old son, Kostya, is dying of an incurable disease. The mother believes that God can heal her little boy. She alternates agonisingly between hope and despair, fighting and giving up. Still, she prays, “imbuing her prayer with all the power […]

EVERYONE is a potential addict, even a Christian. When a person focuses obsessively on an object or compulsively searches for something and is exhibiting a strong attachment beyond the point of enthusiasm, chances are he is an addict. Many people struggle with drugs like caffeine in coffee or soft drinks or nicotine in cigarettes. Some […]

ALDERSGATE CONVENTION 2006 was celebrated by Methodists at the Aldersgate Service on May 24 at Barker Road Methodist Church. This was followed by three evening talks given by the Rev Dr M. Robert Mulholland Jr, Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and a leading voice in biblical spirituality. The theme running throughout the four […]

Chen Su Lan Home an expression of Methodists’ call to discipleship CHEN SU LAN Methodist Children’s Home is an expression of Methodists’ call to Christian discipleship and service. “It puts a human face on the church as we seek to serve our community and those who need our help,” said Bishop Dr Robert Solomon, who […]

WITH less than a month to go before Aldersgate Convention 2006 opens at Methodist Centre on May 24, response to its full-day seminar is on the rise. Interest has come from as far as East and West Malaysia as well as Indonesia, besides our local churches. The seminar, to be held at Sophia Blackmore Hall […]

I CAME across two books in the National Library recently. The first one is written by Joseph Atwill, a former businessman turned self-taught student of Christian origins. His book Caesar’s Messiah tries to argue that Christianity was invented by intellectuals serving the Flavian Roman emperors (Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian) who reigned from 69 – 96 […]

19TH WORLD METHODIST CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN SEOUL IN JULY SEVERAL thousand Methodist leaders from all parts of the world will gather in Seoul from July 20-24, 2006 to attend the 19th World Methodist Conference. The conference will open to the resounding music of a 400-voice choir and full orchestra from Korean Methodist churches. […]

The entrance to the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem: He is not here, for He is risen. — Methodist Message picture by PETER TEO. Ref: John 20:1 The empty tomb Speaks of the power of God. He rolled away the stone, He raised His Son to life, To bind our wounds, To heal our diseases, To […]

NASHVILLE – There will come a time in the life of every parent when he or she will have to decide what to do with the Easter Bunny. For most it will come sooner rather than later, especially if you have young children. What is the right thing to do with this soft, cuddly animal with […]

Who can fully appreciate the agony of Jesus who was separated from the Father for the sins of the whole world? THE danger of trivialising the cross of Jesus is ever real – when people treat it lightly or superficially. It is not a new problem though. In 1945, a collection of texts written in the […]

PICTURE this. It is February 2007. About 100 people rise at the sound of the bell at 5.30 am. At 6 am, they are gathered in song and prayer at the morning devotion. After breakfast, they are off to their Bible classes till it is mid-morning and time for work. At 3 pm, they gather as […]