Worship

Be born in us today

An illustration of a dark Bethlehem illuminated by the Christmas star of Christ. Vector EPS 10 available. EPS contains transparencies. “Learn and understand the life of Jesus by walking where…

I know I am safe

On 28 Aug 2016, the Ministry of Health and the National Environment Agency confirmed several cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus infection, and thus officially announced the Zika outbreak in Singapore.…

Hold on to the unchanging love of God

  At the age of 15, George Matheson (1842-1906) was told by doctors that his shadowy eyesight would soon become total blindness. However, that setback did not stop the teenager from enrolling in…

Come just as you are

Green leaf with water drops on it (shallow DoF)   “If God loved me, He would not have treated me this way.” This was one of her typical emotional outbursts…

Stop wandering and come to the Fount

As a dissolute youth coming from a poor family, and who was apprenticed as a boy to a London hairdresser after his father’s death, Robert Robinson (1735-1790) had an unpromising…

Righteous boasting in the cross of Christ

Cross and dramatic sky   We don’t usually link hymn-writers to politicians. As such, it is hard to believe that the author of the hymn ‘In the Cross of Christ…

Singing in suffering

“Why should this happen to me, of all people, why me Lord, why?” This is a very natural response for someone who has met with a terrible tragedy and is…

The ascended triumphant King

Besides Ash Wednesday, I think Ascension Day is the next most uneventful day in many churches of the Methodist tradition. Year in, year out, Ascension Day – which occurs 40…

The fresh Breath of God

  Following the Easter Sunday celebration, the church enters into the Easter Season or the Great Fifty Days. The Scripture lessons in the lectionary for the Sundays that follow reveal…

Spending Lent at the foot of Jesus’ Cross

Picture by Photosebia/Bigstock.com We are now in the season of Lent, and our thoughts should be focused on the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sometimes referred to…
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