Never before has my stuff been plagiarized. When I read the latest post of Stillhaventfound, I felt that he has stolen the essence of what I have in my heart and put it in his own blog post. I have no proof, but he photocopied what was hidden inside my hazy neurons, so you’ll have [...]
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Global Leadership Summit 2009 in Singapore
The Global Leadership Summit 2009 was a surprisingly engaging and inspiring conference. In Christendom, there is no better Christian leadership summit than the annual event led by Bill Hybels at the Willow Creek church campus in Chicago. What was screened here in Singapore were select videoed sessions of the current conference that ended recently. To [...]
Church growth in the USA
This was what happened in the past(Source: Bob Buford, My Next Book Year 5):
Church historian Rodney Stark reports between 1960 and 2000, the Episcopal Church declined 55% in terms of members per 1,000 U.S. population. The United Methodist Church declined 49%, and the Presbyterian Church (USA) declined 49%. Megachurches have doubled in number and size [...]
Do Christian men need grooming?
Singapore women are highly motivated and consequently quite informed when it comes to grooming for they devour magazines, glean tips from friends, search online and attend workshops. Looks, after all are high on the priority checklist of Singapore men when it comes to choice of a life partner. A higher percentage from a woman’s income [...]
Discerning what you “hear from God”
I had a friend from outside church who was always hearing from God. It seemed like he had a direct hotline to God, while all I had were smoke signals and myopia. Sometimes I envied the simplicity and immediacy of his fellowship with the Lord, but most times I was cautious and doubtful. My reservations [...]
“Gold dust” in the church
This morning, Chua Seng Lee, an ex-FCBC pastor, preached a sermon on knowing God. At the end of the sermon he explained about a manifestation of the Spirit we have heard about but have not experienced as a church. We wiped our hands on our clothes and took a good look at them and verified [...]
US preachers don’t preach on hell
Just when it seemed to have cooled off, the topic of hell is back on the front burner—at least for pastors learning to preach about a topic most Americans would rather not talk about. At the recent annual Beeson Pastors School, Selles led two workshops to discuss “Whatever happened to hell?” He asked how many [...]
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