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Building the Body – through spiritual training “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things,” noted the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 9:25. The sportspersons among us can attest to this – regular training, proper nourishment, and good technique are mainstays of any athletic training programme, allowing them to build the right muscles and skill sets […]

“Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” These words eloquently summarise the central message of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s influential book, The Cost of Discipleship, first published in 1937. This book began life as a series of lectures about the Sermon on the Mount, delivered […]

Copy of Michelangelo’s David in Piazza della Signoria Florence Italy Two planned performances in the recently-concluded M1 Singapore Fringe Festival ran into difficulties with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) due to “excessive nudity”. In ‘Naked Ladies’, burlesque dancer Thea Fitz-James strips and performs an indecent act, and in ‘Undressing Room’, dancer Ming Poon challenges […]

Road Travel Journey Nature Scenics Concept   We journey through the unknown, To a home we have yet to own; A wonderful home in eternity, Promised by the Lord Almighty. It is a challenging journey, Often through hostile territory; But God will be with us all the way; If we obey Him night and day. […]

Business freedom concept courageous daring businessman flying off a cliff holding faith in balloons   Faith is the firstfruit of trust conceived in the matrix from the seed of enduring Truth and time-tried Knowledge.   Faith is a blind man leaping from an inferno into waiting arms below.   Faith is a sightless bat negotiating […]

Vote Voting Election Politic Decision Democracy Concept Last November, Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” as the international word for the year 2016. So significant is this expression that Oxford Dictionaries’ Casper Grathwohl even said it could become “one of the defining words of our time”. “Post-truth”, whose origins can be traced to the early 1990s, is […]

Tablets. Pills on a white background. Isolated. Building from pills. Pharmacy. Medical background. Medicine. Capsule. Close up One of the reasons that the National Council of Churches of Singapore gave for rejecting physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia in its 2008 statement is that these actions are “against the very ethos of medical practice”. The betrayal […]

We will encounter foes, Life will have its woes, But God will help us to survive; Better still, He will give us life.   He will heal and He will save, He will lift us from the grave. Weeping may last through the night, Joy comes with the Eternal Light.   For joy in all […]

God has given us a capacity and yearning to live beyond ourselves, an innate desire to do good by our conscience: where our actions, decisions, words and expressions are guided by our framework of values, beliefs and moral expectations. This framework could be based on religious beliefs, cultural heritage, family traditions, and law. As Christians, […]

“Our theme for the day is ‘covenant’. What is our human condition? Let’s read together …” “What are some distinguishing symbols by which people will know that we are part of the faith body of Christ?” “These are familiar sentences I used when I taught two DISCIPLE classes while pastoring. I recall those 34 weeks […]

For the longest time, many of us have functioned with a two-tier understanding of the Christian faith. We have been told that there were two types of Christians. If you accepted Christ as your Saviour, you were saved. You had Christ in your life. You would go to heaven when you die. You received all […]

Pyramids with a beautiful sky of Giza in Cairo, Egypt.   Young Joseph drunk with the champagne of the stars that with the sun and moon did obeisance to him before the congregation of celestial lights, blurted out too early the secret message entrusted to him to the hostile ears of brethren seething to see […]