Opinion

Jesus Driven Ministry Author: Ajith Fernando Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2002 255 pp, Hardback, $30   THIS year’s Aldersgate speaker, Dr Ajith Fernando, wears many hats. The Sri Lankan is a sought-after speaker with a world-wide ministry, a pastor of a Methodist church in a country torn by ethno-religious strife, a supervisor of a drug-rehabilitation ministry […]

Finding rest in the midst of restlessness THE scream of a disturbed child shatters the silence of the night. It is soon joined by a mother’s loving and reassuring lullaby. Fear and love then have a strange conversation and fear begins to listen to love. The frightened child is soothed when he feels his mother’s […]

John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance – Mark 1:4. THE church of today lives in an ethically debilitating climate. Where did we go wrong? Was it the urbane self-centredness of Peale’s Power of Positive Thinking and its therapeutic successors? Was it the liberal, civic-club mentality of the heirs to […]

After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave … I’M SURE you’ve seen pictures of the Amish. They are […]

  … for EVERYONE Author: Tom Wright Available at Bethesda Book Centres   TOM WRIGHT (full name: Nicholas Thomas Wright) is the Anglican Bishop of Durham and a wonderful evangelical theologian. While an undergraduate, he determined to read through the New Testament four times a year in its original Greek, and the Old Testament twice […]

  Is That Your Money Or His? An Introduction to the Stewardship of Money and Christian Prosperity Author: George Wan Tian Soo   IF YOU were told to earn all you can, save all you can and then give away everything but the bare minimum, would you do it? Conditioned in an acquisitive world and […]

A YEAR ago, a schoolmate of mine, now an assistant pastor at an Assemblies of God church, asked me what my primary ministry was. I said, “My wife.” She laughed, “No, I mean in church. Do you see your main ministry as the youth or prayer or what?” And I continued my unconventional chant, “My […]

PART 6 OF THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘WISDOM TO LIVE BY: MODERN REFLECTIONS ON AN ANCIENT TEXT’ Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 IN THIS chapter, the Preacher reflects on the mystery of time in light of a profounder mystery, eternity. There is not a period in the history of thought that philosophers (and later, scientists) have not […]

OF GOLD TEETH-FILLINGS AND GOLD DUST RECENTLY much excitement was generated in some churches in different parts of the world by two phenomena that have to do with gold – gold teeth-fillings and gold dust. The first phenomenon was recently reported to have occurred at the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, Sacramento, where some members of […]

  On Wings Of Eagles: Thirty-five years of spreading the Good News in Singapore and beyond Author: Robert Goldsborough EAGLES COMMUNICATIONS has existed for 35 years, and in that time it has undergone much growth and change: from a “gang” of teenagers fired with enthusiasm to do God’s work to a dynamic organisation still fired […]

IT MUST feel strange to Christians of earlier generations if they were to attend modern worship services. One of the things they would find extremely odd is the absence of the prayer of confession which is an essential part of the worship service. Could it be that it is no longer fashionable to talk about […]

Preaching at Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church on Nov 16, 2003, Bishop Dr Robert Solomon addressed an issue that has been of deep interest to many Christians, Methodist and others – the question of “speaking in tongues” and its authenticity. A summary of his sermon follows. WITH John Wesley and John Calvin, we share in […]