When healthy aspiration becomes harmful ambition

当健康的志向变成有害的野心

每个新年的开始,我会用一个古老的爱尔兰祝福,作为自己的提醒。 愿你有后见之明,知道你去过哪里,有先见之明,知道你要去哪里,并且有内省之见,知道哪里你走得太远了。

Saving souls in the Wesleyan Spirit

Habakkuk’s prophetic message in Habakkuk 2:14, “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea”, continually challenges us to mobilise God’s people to reach out to the vast number of people who have never heard the gospel.

An Irish prayer song for the new year

It is a tradition for choirs to present an offertory anthem during worship. At the TRAC 47th Session Ordination and Closing Service on 24 November 2022, the designated offertory anthem was “Christ Be With Me”.

going home is a worthy book of letters

From describing Greenwich, New York as “the haven of low-tax suburbia, the ballast of private equity… and the monotony of finance husbands” (“another life”), to capturing the bustle of Hong Kong in a powerful image of “heels clutched from anxious feet” (“5 foundings”), Jonathan Chan’s debut poetry collection, going home is a masterful display of sensibilities.

Five ways to put Christ in Christmas

Five ways to put Christ in Christmas

Christmas evolved from the Middle English Christemass, which means Christ’s mass. As ‘mass’ refers to a church service, it should come quite naturally to most that the primary reason for Christmas would be Christ’s birth.

Towards being the agency of choice

As a denominational missions agency, the sustainability of the Methodist Missions Society’s ministries, and indeed, the rationale for our very existence, depend on how deeply the Singapore Methodist churches and community are invested in what we do.

Responding to “a-changin’ times”

Bob Dylan’s folk song “The Times They Are a-Changin'” was released in 1964 but still speaks to the times we are living in. In the last three years, one big change we all had to adjust to was Covid-19.

A theology of Christmas carols

A theology of Christmas carols

I hope lovers of Christmas carols will forgive me for saying that not all carols are created equal. Some carols contain the most profound theology of the Incarnation— which is what Christmas is all about—while others border on the sentimental.

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