By Not Known It’s easy to talk about God. His name slips off our lips as we casually chat about him in Bible study or invoke his help in our prayers. But God is not as familiar to us as the location of our favourite restaurant. As Isaiah reminds us, he is beyond our understanding…

By Not Known What food do people eat? How is it served? How is it eaten? Who eats first? These and thousands of other things reveal the patterns of relationships and behaviour that add up to our culture. Culture can be as broad as a nation or race, or as small as the culture of…

By Not Known if a scholar wrote an ‘A’ grade book on the doctrine of God while spending much of his time debating and tearing down other scholars, does he really know Jesus? If a devout leader who has spearheaded many key ministries went around stepping on people by his tactless actions and insensitive words,…

By Not Known Some time ago, a church gave this name to its Youth Ministy, the Joshua Generation. Joshua represents the second generation and encourages every second-generation leader. He was not the one who gathered the nation of Israel. Moses did. Joshua only succeeded Moses upon his death. Joshua finished the work that Moses started.…

By Not Known A good friend of mine once shared with me that a true Christian is much like a good institution in that it has to have 2 primary ingredients: character and competence. A study of institutions that endured the test of time may confirm this assertion. At the time when a commercial airliner…

By Not Known From our view, a new year is full of unknowns. Think back over 2005. Did you expect the significant events that happend in your life? Many of us find that some significant events happened as we expected, but that there were more surprises than certainties. And even as our year closes we…

By Not Known The Bible talks about the birth of Jesus as an historical event. Events in history have several aspects: there is the event itself, or the raw facts of ‘what happened?‘ there is our interpretation of the event, or ‘what does it mean?‘ there is our response to the event and it interpretation,…

By Not Known Singapore’s Christmas seems to be becoming more pagan. Most street and store signs have the generic slogan Seasons Greetings. One store has a large banner that reads: It’s all about me this season. That’s rather close to blasphemy against God and idolatry of self. All of this adds up to a public…

By Not Known In less than a month, we will once again sing the good old Christmas carol – "Joy to the world". For many Christians around the world, it will take much courage to sing this carol as it is. Why so? What joy is there when ten of thousands were dead, lost, and…

By Not Known Today is the first Sunday in Advent. Advent means coming and is the time when we celebrate the heart of the gospel: God came to our world so that we can go to his world. God, in Christ, came to bear our sins on the Cross and to give us life abundant…