Opinion

Picture by rolffimages/Bigstock.com Conflict gripped Sri Lanka in 1988, with two terrorist groups dominating different regions in the country. I was in Colombo to preach when a curfew was imposed, but my hosts managed to get a curfew pass to Kandy. While driving, we noticed that the roads were deserted with numerous checkpoints along the […]

Jesus said, don’t pray to be seen by others, but rather, “go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you” (Matt 6:6) As a frequent user of public transport, I find it quite disconcerting to see […]

  All is not over after final breath, There is life after death! Jesus will descend from the sky, And in the twinkling of an eye, There will be a great surprise, For the dead in Him shall rise.   Jesus has died and is risen! Our sins have been forgiven. Sin and death have […]

ink pen and aged paper parchment On 3 Feb 2015, the British Parliament voted 382 to 128 in favour of legalising a technique in assisted reproductive technology known as mitochondrial replacement, after much heated debate. The UK is the first country in the world to legalise this treatment that would result in children with three […]

Many of us fervently hope to find within us a fount of courage to weather trials and tribulations. Unbroken is the real-life account of one such person, whose tenacity lasted him through difficulties that might have been unbearable for some. Directed and produced by actress Angelina Jolie, this film begins in World War II in […]

It is sometimes said that for most people in Asia it is not a question of whether there is a God, but a question of which God? The challenge for us as Christians, then, is to show what reasons we have for thinking that Jesus is truly God. Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed […]

  Gnarled and weighed down with age, the olive trees, deep-rooted in mothering soil had witnessed the soul-wrenching struggle that fateful night when the Lord of all Creation made flesh agonised over the magnitude of the cost of redeeming the creatures fashioned in His Father’s image. It wasn’t the humiliation, scourge, or the fatal cross, […]

Orientation Concept – Analogic Compass Abandoned on the Rocks The American sociologist Peter Berger is perhaps one of the most interesting scholars of secularism and religion. In his book The Sacred Canopy published in 1967, Berger presented the famous secularisation thesis which postulates that as modernity advances, the influence of religion will diminish and eventually […]

In 1 Corinthians 12, the Apostle Paul calls Christians in the Corinthian church to come together. Why did he need to do so? The Church today is in peril of becoming commercialised. Some churches have become so huge that they have become private entities. This commercialisation process may muddle the meaning of being the Body […]

“…And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”   Esther 4:14 Just like the Esther we have come to know in the Bible, A Tale of Two Esthers portrays the challenges two Singaporean women face in their lives. Through God’s amazing touch comes together a […]

Sexual wholeness is also sexual integrity. The Latin root of the word integrity” means “soundness” and “wholeness”. Sexual integrity is expressing sexuality throughout life in a true, excellent, honest and pure way.Many of us are familiar with the teaching of sexual purity and the emphasis on external rules. who created sex can become the God who says “Don’t”. In such teaching, there […]

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and […]