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By Not Known It’s been 501 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg Germany on 31 October, 1517, instigating the Protestant Reformation. He never intended to start a new church, but he wanted to reform it. He had an acute sense of his sin and…

By Not Known Few would claim to begin their studies, their careers, their businesses, their marriages, or their families with the intention to fail. People fail not because they lack good intentions, but because they give too much of their attention to the wrong things. What we give our attention to will inevitably define the direction we take, which will in turn lead us…

By Not Known And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up (NLT, Deut. 6:6-7). A child…

By Not Known At the wake service of my aunt last month, a pastor from her church whom I knew asked me a pointed question during our brief conversation, “What do you think Christians say to each other in church?”  I had no idea why he asked me that question to begin with.  Nonetheless it set me thinking. I’d been talking with various people since then. …

By Not Known “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us … For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (Jn. 1:14, 17). Much has been debated recently regarding Singapore’s Penal Code, in particular Section 377A, following the recent decision by the Indian Supreme Court to rule in favour of decriminalising homosexuality.…

By Not Known 1 Tim. 1:3-7 “Teach Truth. Love Well” is the motto or tag line of Dallas Theological Seminary. It conveys the ideal that biblical truth, when properly understood, is best manifested in Christian love. Yet Christians struggle with the apparent disconnect between faith and practice in our lives. In 1 Tim. 1:3-7, we see the importance of right doctrine in Paul’s…

By Not Known We learnt in Acts 9 that the Gospel changed the life of Saul.  He was tracking down all the followers of Jesus Christ in Damascus so as to persecute them.  Instead, the Lord Jesus confronted him.  In the encounter, he was blinded and when he was healed, he became a changed man.  His name was changed from Saul to Paul, from a murderer to…

By Not Known How may we experience the power and presence of God in our lives today? The book of Acts shows us the answer. Jesus promised the church in Acts 1:8 that “You shall receive power . . . and you shall be my witnesses. . . .” Receiving His power and becoming His witnesses are twin promises…