WORD FROM THE EDITOR HERE IT IS – your new-look Methodist Message (MM)! This issue of MM, with its refreshing new look and entirely in full colour, comes 12 years…
We begin a new series on Christian denominations entitled, “So What’s the Difference?” This series, which alternates with “Now That’s A Good Question!”, will discuss the history, theology and practices…
ARE WE ONE? We have 44 Methodist Churches in Singapore. In Christ, we are one. According to our Methodist Book of Discipline, we are one. According to Singapore Law, we…
Spread of scriptural holiness remains Methodism’s core mission says Aldersgate Convention keynote speaker HOW CAN the writings and theology of a man who died in 1791 be relevant to us…
ALDERSGATE CONVENTION TALKS IN ENGLISH AND MANDARIN IN THREE talks over three evenings, British Methodist Church minister and Wesleyan authority David Chapman went to great lengths to answer the…
YOUNG PEOPLE these days are exposed to information, lifestyles and issues that challenge the values they have been brought up with. It is not unusual for teenagers to test…
THE FACEBOOK FEVER has infected the world over and is here to stay. Alongside other social networking websites such as Twitter, Friendster, LinkedIn, hi5, Doostang and MySpace, Facebook…
MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING I’M NOT SURE my reasons for choosing teaching as a profession were all that noble in the first instance. Basically, I hoped to one day…
SHE LOOKED straight at me in the eye and asked the question most marriage counsellors dread to hear, “So, do you think that there is any hope in saving this…
In a post-war newsletter, the Rev (later Bishop) Hobart B. Amstutz recalls the harrowing days that followed the surrender of Singapore in February 1942 and the experience of being interned…
SURRENDER & OBEDIENCE “Grace is all God’s work … However, the Christian life is not all about God’s work. When God acts, He expects a response. God’s grace and our…
The challenge of ministry to youth in the Methodist Church today WITHIN the last 25 years, our world left behind the typewriter and Cyclostyle machine, and embraced the social tsunami…
PLANO (Texas) – His Sunday school teacher 50 years ago at Waples Memorial United Methodist Church in Denison, Texas, remembers him as Chesley. His sister refers to him by…
SIBU – The first General Conference Executive Council (GCEC) meeting of The Methodist Church in Malaysia (MCM) for the new quadrennium (2009-2012) was held from Feb 12 to 14…
BEYOND WORDS: The Remarkable Story of Paul and Nathalie Means Edited by: Laurel Means Published by Armour Publishing Pte Ltd 376 pages, $25+ GST This book is available in…
How would you evaluate the basic tenets of Open Theism? THEOLOGIANS throughout the centuries have wrestled with the question concerning the sovereignty of God and the free will of human…
THE 12th Anniversary Service of the Methodist School of Music (MSM) was held in the cosy setting of the Barker Road Methodist Church sanctuary. Although there were people from various backgrounds…
