By Not Known It’s almost a national hobby to want a full-on life. this is the person who works an 80+ hour working week; takes a laptop home on weekends and public holidays, cuts sleep to a minimum and crams every moment with some activity. Their favourite text is Eccles 9:10a and their hero is…

By Not Known People differ in things like race, gender, ability, socio-economic standing. We often have trouble dealing with human differences Many respond to differences with a sense of hierarchy. They ask how others differ from them and then ask who is better or more important. This leads to racism where one race is judged…

By Not Known Water is vital for life! Much of our physical environment and much of our human bodies consist of water. Without it, plants and people die. With it, life thrives, We are very conscious of that in Singapore. The popeline from Malaysia is crucial to national survival and we are concerned to supplement…

By Not Known Some people say that history repeats itself. I agree. In fact, it repeats itself many times. Look at the Israelites, God has spoken to them many times and yet they seemed not to have understood what God had said about their repeated mistakes and disobedience. God has to repeat his warnings and…

By Not Known Football is a beautiful game. Over the past five weeks, the entire planet was treated to one of the best exhibition of this beautiful game. It was a great spectacle for football fans. However, “ugly” gamesmanship had marred it. Gamesmanship in its pureset form means the art of winning games using tactics…

By Not Known Mike Markula, a former vice-chairman of Apple Computer once said, “I believe the overall quality of work improves when you give people a chance to fail.“ Among the most vocal and most visible apostles of Jesus was a man named Peter, whose name meant the rock. It meant strength and stability. It…

By Not Known Like the foolish Galations, some of us cannot accept the fact that we can gain salvation by just taking god at His word! Believing in Christ Jesus who died for our sins and rose again from the dead for our salvation just isn’t good enought! Surely it can’t be that simple –…

By Not Known Have you ever experienced a ‘That’s it!’ moment in your life? It might be that you threw in the towel on a relationship, a job, a deal, or an interest. That can often happen when one party undergoes prolonged frustration of unmet expectations, empty promises, or unfavourable outcomes. Have you been disappointed…

By Not Known Some children at a Christian orphanage in Indonesia recently received several boxes of expensive multivitamins at no cost. It all happened through people in our congregation One person had the vitamins. He looked for somewhere to send them. An elder and a deacon had some coincidental conversations. Yet another person became involved…

By Not Known “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, [a] where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” (Eccles 9:10) Most of us can readily divide our lives into various aspects such as employment, hobbies, close family, wider family,…