Archive for the ‘Pastoral Reflections’ Category
Dear Friends at Hope, OUR LEADERS AT HOPE SHARE THEIR HEARTS WITH US. I have invited Deacon Joshua Lee to share something of his spiritual journey with us. Joshua works at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is happily married to Lyndis, and is a doting father to Kate. He enjoys reading Christian literature and [...]
by Pastor Paul Teoh My heart ached when I read the special Straits Times feature last Thursday about the aftermath of the Padang earthquake. I cannot imagine what it is like to be the village chief who not only lost his home but his wife and children when the landslide entombed his entire village. In [...]
by Rev Luke Thurai The recent Typhoon Ketsana that devastated the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam turned many lives upside-down. Within a few hours, their cities were flooded chest high. People saw their children drown and loved ones swept away. People ran out of food and electrical power. Life looked out of control for them. [...]
by Rev. Dr. William Wan “Be joyful always; pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thes. 5:16-18 Quite often I am asked, “How do I know the will of God?” By that of course they mean, “How do I know the specific will of [...]
by Pastor Paul Teoh “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” 1 Thessalonians 4:11 – 12 [...]
Dear Friends at Hope, In 6 days time, (on 19.09.09) I shall be “ordained” again. Thus, I shall be, officially, the Reverend, Doctor Steven Tan. It is quite an honour. It comes with quite mixed feelings also. Initially, when I first contemplated working with Hope, the process by which these things would happen was not clear. [...]
It looks like the sports pages for the last week were dominated by English League soccer champions Manchester United’s 2-1 win over their arch-rivals Arsenal. Among the reporters comments were ‘Arsenal were clearly the better side’, ‘they (Manchester United) were lucky to win’, etc. I did not see the match but from the neutral reporters, [...]
Have you heard the new buzz word in missions? Glocal: it’s the combination of local and global missions into one. While the word glocalization has been around in business vernacular since the 1990s, churches are now adopting the term as well as the concept that what they do across the street and around can work [...]
Dear Friends at Hope, “A POWERFUL MESSAGE LAST SUNDAY.” Thank God for bringing Mr Michael Hack, of Operation Mobilisation, to our pulpit, as he brought home the message powerfully to us that there are very few working among the “un-reached” peoples of our world. The message was clear: “Pray for the Lord of the harvest [...]
Last Saturday, more than 180 youth and 40 adults from 10 Presbyterian churches spent an exciting afternoon and evening at the English Presbytery’s Missions Festival held at the Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary School. Present were 39 youth and 10 adults from our church, which incidentally was the largest group from all the EP churches. But [...]