On Cremation
One of the American Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), once said these famous words: “… in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Listening To One Another
In your conversation with one another, have you ever encountered a situation where you need to ask a question like this: “Are you listening?”
Loved To Love In Action
There is a song titled “Love Changes Everything” released back in 1989. One of the lines goes: “Love changes everything, how you live and how you die.” If you have ever been in love, you know that love changes many things, if not everything.
Area Cleaning with Japanese Pastors
This June, I gathered together with a group of pastors for a morning of ‘area cleaning’.
Playful Worship
I am often intrigued on Sundays whenever I sit on the last pew seeing young toddlers engaging in parallel play during worship service.
The Messiness of the Church
Holy Catholic Church?
Holy?
How so?
Growing in Spirit-led Service
Note: This reflection was prepared as part of the devotions for our church camp taking place from 5–8 June, and is intended for Sunday, 7 June. Even for those who are unable to join us at the camp, my prayer is that you will read this and be encouraged, as together we learn to rely on and rest in the Spirit’s guidance and strength.
A God Like No Other
The God whom Christians worship is both transcendent and intimate. He is transcendent and almighty because he is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that is in them – creatures great and small, the seas and the lands, and every wonder of this beautiful world.
A Much Better Home
During the recent funeral arrangements for my late father-in-law, I learnt a new term from James, the funeral director. Prior to this, I was not aware that choosing the casket in Hokkien was euphemistically referred to as “geng tua chu”. In English, the phrase is literally translated as choosing a big mansion.
Are You Keeping To The Beat?
I was never good at keeping to the beat. Whenever people clap along to a song and I join in, I oftentimes find myself out of sync quickly and had to look to others around me in order to regain the beat. Needless to say, I have never dared to try playing the drum set.
