Fifty years of reading the Bible, and some things continue to puzzle me. A case in point is the sordid account of Judah and Tamar, his daughter-in-law, in Genesis chapter 38. It looked out of place. Chapter 37 ended, “Meanwhile, the Midianites had sold him to Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain […]
Pastor Rony Tan went home to his Lord and Master on the 16th of September 2024, aged 79 years old. He passed away peacefully after suffering from sciatic nerve pain for two years and a recently discovered complicated tumour. For the joy of meeting his Master, whom he served faithfully, he endured the pain and […]
It was with a sense of awe that I read about the history of Kum Yan Methodist Church (KY) in a May 2021 excerpt from the Methodist Message about the 103rd-anniversary celebration: “…. I learned how KY’s founding father, Mr I.C. Lam started the church because he sensed the needs of the people around him. […]