Opinion

Getting on in years? That’s true! Just eat and sleep? That won’t do! Leave the house, go for a walk, Look for friends for tea and talk. Go for what you can afford So long as you don’t go overboard. Not to your liking? Let things be! Keep your cool, show charity! Learn new skills, […]

For many years now, “leadership” has been the buzzword both in the Church and in secular society. But this ubiquitous “L” word has, of late, become reduced to superficial “jump on the bandwagon” jargon-worn and overused. Christian books and articles on the subject sometimes present rather secular ideas of leadership, garnished here and there with […]

National Day is usually an occasion for our prime minister to give an account of how we have fared in the past 12 months, backed with statistics showing our nation’s economic health. At the National Day parade on 9 August, the strength of our army, navy and air force, together with their expensive military hardware, […]

His Word, verse and hymns of praise, Bear testament to God and his godliness Our souls rest on the peace He brings Christ has risen and Christ has come Oh how sweet the surrender, how light the yoke Come into the garden, his heavenly kingdom For those whom the Spirit hath awoken What price honour; […]

Lord, grant me a simple faith Unfettered by my wandr’ing mind A faith that shines with burning light That men, through me, might You they find Lord, grant me a simple faith That stands against my questioning soul To heal the brokenness inside So I might once more be made whole Lord, grant me a […]

In the second century, pagans in the Greco-Roman world accused Christians of atheism, cannibalism, and incest. Christians were accused of atheism partly because they refused to worship the Roman gods, and partly because they had no shrines or temples, and no altars or images. Christians were accused of cannibalism because the pagans thought that they […]

In 1880, a Chinese boy, Charlie Soong, arrived at Wilmington, N.C., on the United States cutter, Colfax. The captain of the Colfax, Charles Jones, became very much interested in the Chinese youth. Captain Jones later found the boy a home with some Christian friends. There, the young Soong became a Christian. Subsequently, a Methodist minister […]

It has been reported that Singapore was bestowed the mantle of being the “Antioch of Asia” by the late Billy Graham, 40 years ago during his crusade held in Singapore. A decade later in 1988, Patrick Johnstone, a well-known researcher in his book The Church Is Bigger Than You Think, cited statistics which showed that […]

In a recent report on urbanisation trends, the World Health Organization predicted that by 2030, six out of every 10 people in the world would be city dwellers. This means that virtually every global growth over the next 30 to 40 years will take place in urban areas. Sociologists have coined two new terms to […]

In a Peanuts cartoon, Lucy walked in on Linus watching TV, and demanded that he switch channels. “What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?” Linus retorted. Said Lucy, holding up her fist: “These five fingers… Individually, they’re nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a single […]

What does he know, this carpenter, of habitat and fish think, of the movement and congregation of shoals, to tell us, schooled in line, tackle and nets, and in the pathways of fish in the sea-lanes below the waves, To tell us, bone-weary from a night of trawling in vain, to cast our nets on […]

How shall I come before the Lord, Bow down before the exalted God? Will a perfect prescribed sacrifice Offered on the altar suffice? Will sacrifices in abundance, Offered without repentance? Will the gift of my firstborn alone, My life transform, my sin atone? You have shown, Lord, what is right In Your sovereign righteous sight; […]