Celebrate our faith in festivals

Festivals bring families, relatives and friends to reconnect with one another. They draw communities together and serve a unifying purpose. Festivals were integral to the lives of people in the…

Haiyan: An on-going tragedy

In our December 2013 issue, we reported on the devastation wrought by the strongest typhoon recorded in terms of wind speed to ever hit portions of Southeast Asia. With 14.1…

Architecture of worship

Worship architects are wise to truly understand what takes place in worship and who the participants are. “There’s a method to my madness!” Have you ever heard anyone use this…

Doors

At the cusp of a new year, I pause at the hallway lined with many doors. There is the door of new beginnings, departing from the zones of the familiar,…

NESTORIANISM

…“None of the great ‘heretics’ of the history of dogma have borne this name so unjustly as Nestorius.” Nestorius, the Bishop of Constantinople, is arguably one of the most controversial…

‘Ministers and laity as one’

“It is imperative,” said the Rev Dr Chong Chin Chung, “that ministers and laity work as one.” As President of the Chinese Annual Conference (CAC), he was giving his Address…

‘We are to be a lighthouse.’

SONY DSC In his inaugural Presidential Review, given at Ang Mo Kio Tamil Methodist Church last year, Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) President Rev R. Prabhu steered the Conference to…

Bird Theology

Afew of my classmates in seminary were Indonesian pastors. In one of our informal theological discussions, some of them shared with me that in Indonesia they spoke of teologi kucing…

Getting back on course

  James*, a professional in his mid-thirties, came to me for counselling because he was experiencing crises at many levels. It all began when his lover confessed that whilst on…

Forever new

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ” (Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV)  The love…

Another $1.1 million needed

Geylang Methodist School (Primary), which will be celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, is a mission field with a harvest waiting to be reaped, and it is in urgent need…
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