By Dr Dominic Kuek “So how are you going to apply the sermon today?” I remember being quite taken aback when the lady sitting next to me in church asked me that very question after service. Quite frankly, my mind had been preoccupied with lunch plans at that moment, and the thought of discussing the…
By Rev Dr Edward Goh Channel News Asia recently reported that some teachers’ mental health is at an all-time low. An engagement survey shows thirty per cent of the MOE teachers are struggling to cope with the increased work stress brought about by the need to generate new lesson plans, online quizzes, and monitor the…
By Dr Agnes Tan At the beginning of our COVID-19 lockdown, the choir chose an anthem called “A Community of Faith” as their first audio recording project and as a reminder of what a community of faith should look like, even when facing a global pandemic. The refrain of the anthem goes like this, “A…
By Rev Dr Clive Chin What is biblical discipleship? Those who follow Jesus by faith are known as his disciples. Scripture does not make a distinction between Christians who are “normal believers” and disciples who are “super Christians”. We are either following Jesus as his disciples or we are not; there is no middle ground…
By Pr Ho Wei Liang Over a six-year longitudinal study from 2004-2010 involving more than 500 youths, Christian youth researchers from the Fuller Youth Institute investigated how faith can be more successfully passed on. At the end of it, they pinpointed “steps youth workers, churches, parents, and students themselves can take to help students stay…
By Dr Dominic Kuek I have lost track of how many Christian friends of mine have stopped believing in the gospel. And it wasn’t just the ‘flaky’ ones. Many of them grew up in church with me, served in various committees, came for prayer meetings regularly, and taught Bible studies. One of them was even…
By Ps Tan Hui Ru Tomorrow is Singapore’s 56th National Day, and for the first time in 56 years, we will not be watching the National Day Parade (NDP) on 9 August itself. It feels really odd to me because as a child, I looked forward to National Day with a passion. Before NDP tickets…
By Pr Herna Kong Many of us are familiar with the saying “Like father, like son”, or “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”, which figuratively means the qualities, talents, traits or even hobbies of a child are similar to his or her parents’. Billy Graham’s parents grew up in a family of believers,…
By Rev Dr Edward Goh Have you ever wondered how much God loves us? Paul repeatedly reminded us of the Father’s love for us in Ephesians. He said, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us . . . so that in the coming ages he might…
By Rev Dr Clive Chin Beginning in August, our church will begin a series of expositional messages on Paul’s second letter to his apprentice, Timothy. What is the message of 2 Timothy and why is it relevant to the life of ORPC? This letter is a great resource for struggling Christians, who don’t know what…