A unique place of worship
This is definitely the church with the most unique of locations. There are those that worship in the home, the shophouse, the industrial unit, the shopping mall, an association building, the cinema theatre, restaurants, schools, even the columbarium, but this is the first time I experienced worship in the Arts House [...]
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Care Community Church: a family church in a heritage site
DUMC raid: it’s about what’s right for the marginalized
Shock at DUMC raid by Jais
Already there had been issues that had risen in the recent decade with rights of Muslim converts to Christianity to change their designation on their ID, the Alkitab issue, and the accompanying bomb blast at a Kuala Lumpur church. Last week, with shock I read that the Damansara Utama Methodist [...]
Aldersgate Methodist Church: keeping tradition and yet stepping beyond
In the wrong place
It was a traditional service, but it took a step beyond the traditional.
Like clockwork it began at 8.30am and ended at 9.40am. That’s about an hour and a quarter, with the eucharist included. This was Aldersgate Methodist Church. It had been a long time ago when I last attended a Methodist service [...]
Spiritual exercises: retreat, restore, re-configure
Nature’s welcome
Despite divine assurances that this lengthy retreat would do me good, it was with some apprehension that I settled into the room 212 that would be my home for thirty five days. Air Asia had flown me into Chiang Mai, Thailand, at about eleven plus, and I was glad to be at the Seven [...]
Annapurna base camp trek
Just came back from Chiang Mai on Monday night. It was a prayer retreat that allowed me to predispose myself more fully to His grace and love and spiritual liberty. God willing, more will be written about that later.
This trek was in 2009. I couldn’t go, but my wife did. Viewing it reminded me of [...]
The food at The Seven Fountains
It began on 1 June and now its 4th of July. The actual 30 day Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius has concluded. Processing and taking it all in, basking in its afterglow, and trying to understand the dynamics involved in this directed retreat is what’s going on with me now. Reading some stuff on the [...]
Speaking in tongues in the worship service
During the revival, speaking in tongues was a common phenomena during the meetings, whether for prayer or worship services. There would be loud speaking in tongues with tears and crying. People were convicted and overwhelmed by the Spirit and speaking loudly in tongues, sometimes with interpretation, but most times without.
My understanding about tongues and its [...]
Interesting gleanings from other blogs
Here are some interesting stuff I have been reading as I scan my Google reader of all the blogs and websites I have subscribed:
There is still this persistent perception that Trinity Theological College is a liberal institution and Sze Zeng, unfazed by controversy, argues against Benjamin Chew’s conclusion. His argument is laid out here: Baseless [...]
The pursuit of true happiness
If owning more and newer and better things does not make a person happy, then what does? In an article in the Straits Times, Tobias Chen and Ang Swee Hoon, a student and associate professor of NUS Business School, suggested that experiences have a greater effect of augmenting happiness than does the accumulation of possessions. [...]
Startling, depressing statistics on U.S. pastors
These statistics have been around for some time and the research was done in the 1990’s but they do strike a chord for us even today and in Singapore. The research was finished by the Schaeffer Institute, but quoted in Thabiti Anyabwile in a post titled, “Don’t Make Your Pastor A Statistic”. In the post [...]
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