Joy Fang of My Paper reported today that New Creation Church collected $21 million in less than 24 hours!
In fewer than 24 hours last Sunday, members of the megachurch donated an impressive $21.1 million towards its multimillion-dollar building fund over four services held at Suntec City and Golden Village Marina.
The sum breaks the church’s record [...]
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A sketch of west Malaysian churches
A pleasant surprise awaited me in the dimly-lit basement car park of Trinity Theological College. Rev Benedict Muthusamy, my classmate, a Presbyterian moderator and the pastor of a church in Kulai, had come for some business. We had some coffee in the canteen and our conversation turned interesting as he gave me his personal [...]
Chinese surname confusion
When I asked Alan Hiu from Kuching, Sarawak, about his unusual surname, he explained that different dialect groups would pronounce it differently. “What about my surname?”, and I wrote the Chinese strokes for Chee in the air. He gave me a lesson on it: the Hockchiew (my father’s dialect) would call it “Hee”; the Cantonese [...]
Gleanings from blogroll
1. Is there a way to integrate the claims of the “new perspective of Paul” with the Reformed teaching of personal justification by faith? Bolivian Beat discusses this briefly in “New Perspective of Paul”.
2. Rev David Burke gives advice on “Choosing a Church”. He points out 9 things to look for. My list has only [...]
John Maxwell: what I would have done differently as a pastor
John Maxwell is well known in the church world and in the secular organizations. He is a trainer and motivator of leaders. As an author he has sold 13 million books. His training organizations have trained more than 5 million people. He left Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego to concentrate on training leaders. He [...]
Bukit Batok Presbyterian Church: traditional church in the heartlands
Tucked along Bukit Batok Street 11 and opposite St Luke’s hospital is the one and only Presbyterian church on a HDB site won by open tender. The Presbyterians have a few churches with HDB catchment areas but these are either in schools like Presbyterian High or were built long ago, like Glory Presbyterian Church. This [...]
Penang gangsta now married!
Choby Siau married recently and we were all happy for him. We wish him and his wife, Esther, God’s very best. Choby had a tumultous, topsy-turvy life of danger and broke the hearts of his missionary parents, until Jesus turned him around completely and delivered him safely from his Penang gang. Now he is a [...]
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