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Bishop Dr Robert Solomon's Message
IT IS CUSTOMARY IN METHODIST CHURCHES to have the Covenant Service on New Year’s Day or on the first Sunday of the year. The Covenant Service was introduced in 1755 by John Wesley – in a service that saw about 1,800 Methodists standing up to renew their covenant with God with the following words: Lord, make me what you will. I put myself fully into your hands: put me to doing, put me to suffering...
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| 36th Annual Conference Sessions |
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More challenges ahead for the church: CAC President
WITH THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE and technology and modernism, there will be changes to social life and more challenges for the church as Singapore continues to progress rapidly...
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Connections important for God’s work: ETAC President
OPPORTUNITIES TO MINISTER TOGETHER help us to learn from one another and extend resources, asserted the Rev James Nagulan, President of Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC), in his President’s Review at the 36th Session of ETAC on Nov 12 at the Tamil Methodist Church...
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Riding the challenges of a new social milieu: TRAC President
“THE REALITY WE MUST FACE is that growth is not as rapid as it was in the last few decades,” stated the Rev Dr Wee Boon Hup, President of Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC), as he delivered his President’s Report on Nov 22, during the 36th Session of TRAC at Toa Payoh Methodist Church...
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JOHN THE BAPTIST preached a “baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins”. Jesus did not need to repent, nor did he need to be washed or cleansed for he was a sinless man. He came to John to be baptised as he acknowledged His humanity. But even deeper was His coming to die on the cross and bring salvation to all humankind. Fred Pratt Green beautifully connects Jesus’ baptism and the cross in stanza two...
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| Youths in Singapore: Increasingly postmodern |
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK about Postmodernism in recent years. But what does this term really mean? I will not attempt to define it, because that is extremely difficult. Instead, I will simply list some ideas and statements that describe the phenomenon, such as Truth is relative – “You have your truth, I have mine – please don’t impose yours on mine.” “If I feel it’s right, then it’s right.” “You ask me ‘why’? I ask you ‘why not?’ ”...
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| Faith of our Fathers: Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) |
ONE OF THE MOST CREATIVE MINDS in Western theology is Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria), a colony in the Roman Africa Province. Augustine, whose writings have influenced both Roman Catholic and Protestant theologies (both Luther and Calvin belonged to the Augustinian tradition), cast a long and illustrious shadow on Western Christian thought. Born in Thagaste, Numidia, Augustine received a fine education in philosophy and rhetoric...
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