Opinion

CHURCHES have remained vigilant and offered prayers over the current concerns in Singapore. Here is a public prayer offered at a Preaching Point entreating God to exercise His sovereign control over us: “We want to pray for our country and our people. Our lives are crippled and inhibited by illness, ignorance, bitterness and grief. In […]

Sin, forgiveness lose their meaning in secular age THE statement of the Creed concerning the forgiveness of sin poses some difficulty to the modern reader because both sin and forgiveness have lost their meaning in the secular and superficial age in which we live. The evangelical theologian Bernard Ramm aptly entitled his book on sin, […]

The Rise of Christianity Author: Rodney Stark   THIS objective of Rodney Stark’s study is to answer the question which serves as the sub-title of his book: “How the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries.” Stark, Professor of Sociology and Comparative Religion at the […]

“Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death — that is, the devil — and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.” — Hebrews 2:14, 15. “YOU […]

Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder Author: Richard A. Horsley RICHARD A. HORSLEY criticises current approaches to the study of the historical Jesus that ignore the real historical context which projected the image of a “depoliticised” Jesus of Nazareth. He advances what he calls the relational-contextual approach to understand […]

BACK in theological college, we had to do a year of Church History. Too little for a history buff! So, I can tell you that May 11 will mark the 1673rd anniversary of the founding, by Emperor Constantine I of the Roman Empire of the East, or the Byzantine Empire. This has been called “one […]

‘I believe in the Holy Spirit’ THE third article is too briefly enunciated in the Apostles’ Creed to be of significant help. This exposition will therefore be based on the expanded and more descriptive statement that is found in the Nicene Creed of AD 325. There we are told that the Holy Spirit is “the […]

  HOLINESS is a word that many Christians find it uncomfortable to mention, much less to talk about. Even preachers nowadays hardly preach on holiness. They prefer to expound on the other attributes of God, such as love, mercy, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience. This is understandable because these divine attributes endear God to men. We somehow […]

‘Could you forgive someone who destroyed your life? The world has reason to be grateful to people who, against all the odds, have found a way to forgive.’ WHEN I was in my early 20s — more than 20 years ago — I was involved with an organisation whose mission was to bring in Bibles […]

The Heart of the Artist Author: Rory Noland Publisher: Zondervan, 1999 HAVE you ever wondered about giving an appropriate gift to your choir director, organist, pianist, or any member of your church choir music ministry team? I strongly recommend The Heart of the Artist, a book written for artistes by an artiste, Rory Noland, a […]

LESS than 90 years ago, in the year 1918, the world had exhausted itself after four years of a world war that took the lives of more than 15 million people. To rub salt into the wounds of a despairing world, an epidemic of global proportions emerged that year. Like an angry tornado of death, […]

THAT morning must have been cold and drab. Why should it not be? Even the warmest sunshine would not be able to chase away the clouds of gloom or melt away the iciness of a heart that has witnessed the tragic events of not too long ago. What in God’s name could have caused a […]