Returned at 1 am this morning after a six day break in Bangkok with my family. Now I am deep in work till Saturday, including Vesak Day, when I will be helping James Creasman and Andy Lim facilitate a 2 days CRM focusing leaders’ network retreat.
These are signs I am definitely back in Singapore! haha.
Will post some holiday stuff later.
4 comments May 30th, 2007
At the Adam Rd hawker center, Singapore mynahs, like most Singaporeans, just love eating local food.
3 comments May 28th, 2007
I have laboriously typed out some excerpts which impacted me from books on preaching. Now over the years I have read many books on preaching because it is my passion and interest. So it will take quite a while to go back in time and glean the stuff that made a difference to me. So here are just three. One is by a systematic theologian; another speaks from a communication theory perspective, and the final one is a professor of preaching. So take a look at READINGS above and click it.
I’ll slowly add more along the way.
2 comments May 28th, 2007
Had dinner with Roland, Janet and families at a quiet place nestled at the end of Heng Mui Keng Terrace in the Institute of Policy Studies. Owned by some relative of the famous Kee’s sauces, the concept I guess is to cook food with these sauces to promote them. Service was friendly, food was so-so, and I had a good time catching up with Roland, now a remisier with Phillips Securities, and doing well. With some cushioned chairs at the sides, it looks like a good place to relax, have a cup of coffee and do some reflection or thinking work.
Add comment May 27th, 2007
We are happy that Matthew has graduated from the S’pore Poly and will soon be going to to work with the Sisterhood of Mary in Sydney for a month, and then into National Servicefor two years.
7 comments May 26th, 2007
Just added a link to my blogroll on the right hand column for those who like inspiring messages of hope. Click on Inspiring Flash Movies.
3 comments May 24th, 2007
“People who are tagged should write a blogpost of 6 weird things about them as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.”
I got tagged by ‘an old man in the winter of his life‘ and so I have to write six weird things about myself. By the way doing this in itself is pretty “weird” for me to do. But anyway just to be sporting….six peculiar, odd things about blogpastor:
And now the six people I’d like to tag and tell me about their weirdness are:
2. Currahee101
3. Erikanissa
4. looxie
5. darrylboy
13 comments May 23rd, 2007
Did a session with the young adults cell on the Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost and ended appropriately with prayer.
Took a quick snapshot of Aileen, the church website administrator (among many other things), and son Mark(who climbed Kinabalu recently) at Funan foodcourt after lunching with their gang there.
Add comment May 22nd, 2007
So we finally met with Mag, the “sifu” (mentor) as my online friends, Lynette and Daniel, affectionately calls her. She wore funky spectacles and dressed adventurously and I later noticed two different earrings dangling from her ears, and an assortment of bejewelled rings and bangles, and all in style! She is one of the main leaders of the Healing Rooms and has great anointing for wholeness and deliverance ministry. She is a widow running a successful gift business and she mentored Lynn and Daniel and they are great friends as well.
It was nice of them to treat Jenny and myself to Japanese food at the Paragon and I tried cold soba for the first time. Nice meal but was so absorbed in conversation I think the full awareness of the flavors and textures just passed me by. Nevertheless what we talked about left a keen impressions on my wife and I. Tithing again took centrestage in our sharing.
Mag shared her deep convictions about tithing, which my wife and I are 100% into as well. She had been $400,000 in debt after her husband passed away, and she shared how she learned to give a tithe not based on what she has earned on the year past, but based on what she was believing God for in earnings for the coming year. Wow! so its a kind of “faith tithe”- giving in advance by faith before business has come in and profit has been calculated. And God was faithful to His Word and business deal after deal was secured and she was able to pay her debt in a short few years! She saw God’s supernatural favor at work and never lacked anything.
Her son Mark is a pilot in the air-force and from a young age learned to tithe from the mother and continued tithing on receiving his first pay check as an air force pilot and througout his promotions. Some time back he invested in a 900 sq m apartment in Orchard area and rented it out for a sum beyond what other even bigger nearby apartments were fetching! He knew it was God’s blessing, and he felt it was tithing that put him in a place where God could bless him in abundantly.
Tithing is God’s plan for our financial provision. Education for our children is important but I am convinced that teaching your children to tithe is still the surest way to secure a better future for your children. If your children reap the fruit of practising giving to God one tenth of all income, they will experience God’s promises to the tither and generous giver. Not just financial and material provision but a life of trust and contentment; an ability to curb greed, stinginess and to postpone gratification; a child-like trust in God to make the remaining nine-tenth sufficient for one’s needs; the joys of seeing God’s favour at work in one’s family and job.
But to teach your children, you yourself need to learn to tithe, to do it out of gratitude to the Lord, and be a practitioner yourself. It can be done. Don’t miss out on the advice of John Templeton, the founder of the famous Templeton investment company, who when asked by reporters what would be the greatest investment to make, said: “The greatest investment to make is the tithe”. And he practiced what he preached till the day he died! What an inspiring example!
6 comments May 21st, 2007
It was about 9.15am on Saturday and about 90 out of 150 guests present were pre-believers. The tim sum evangelism was arranged by the Chinese service.
Shanthi brought nurses and Jenny brought Poly students. Wasn’t it supposed to be parents’ appreciation? Never mind. Just gatecrash!
The speaker was a superstitious businessman and shared how he dramatically turned to Christ. He easily held their attention. The gospel seed was sown and some responded.
4 comments May 20th, 2007
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