We are grateful to God for this season of Advent! I have been meditating on the book of Titus where Paul instructs Titus to teach sound doctrine that will lead to right living. In chapter 2, after giving instructions of how different family members in a household should live and thereby adorn Christ and make the gospel beautiful, Paul commands Titus to teach the gospel with authority by summarizing the contents of the gospel in a succinct and powerful manner.

The idea of an indigenous mission was conceived at the Singapore General Hospital in 1960! My late father, Dr G D James, had sustained a massive heart attack and was recuperating in the hospital when the Lord gave him a vision.
He saw thousands, if not millions of souls, heading for a Christless eternity. He heeded that vision and upon his recovery he established the Malaysia Evangelistic Fellowship, which was later changed to Asia Evangelistic Fellowship (AEF).

As we approach Reformation Day, I can’t help but think of how it all began!
On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses on the door of
Whittenburg Church in Germany that set the Reformation in Europe in motion,
resulting in the split of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church.

Let us run this race with intentionality and purpose…
Let us run, and not be weary, let us walk and not faint because He,
the everlasting God, who pours his strength into our weak and frail
bodies, he will cheer us on and will be with us till the very end!
(Isaiah 40:31)

This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it! August has been a month of events and new beginnings! Many Asian nations celebrated their Independence Day, including Singapore which celebrated 59
years of peace, stability and freedom of religion.

We struggle and strive to want to be a follower and a fisherman for Christ through our human efforts and through our man-made structures, programs and policies.

As we continue in our journey together as pilgrims in this path of discipleship, the Lord Jesus is our Shepherd and Guide. Let us turn our attention to Psalm 1 on how blessed it is to walk with God, meditate on His truths, do the right thing and delight in His Word.

We rejoice and give thanks to our great and awesome God for his love, faithfulness and everlasting mercies to the Singapore Bible College over these past 72 years!

On the 4th of May SBC celebrated her 71st graduation ceremony with 107 students who graduated from the 4 Schools and Advanced Studies, with Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees!

Let me share some nuggets I reread from Scripture this week. Jesus taught his disciples precious truths and drew amazing lessons from his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7).

Blessed Easter! Our Lord is Risen! Hallelujah!
For the past several weeks of Lent, leading to Easter, in meditating on Christ and the Cross, my heart is filled with gratitude even as I once again survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died!

I have been thinking about the importance of prayer and the template Jesus gave his disciples in Matthew 6:9-13. As we examine our private and corporate prayers, very often they are for physical things more than for spiritual. We seldom ask God to help us live holy and blameless lives, lives of integrity that please our LORD! Often it’s all about – Give us this day our daily bread!?

Yes, we must ask God for the things we need and thank him for his bountiful provision daily – our daily bread, our daily safety, our daily health, our daily well-being. But shouldn’t we also ask for our spiritual welfare?

We have just welcomed the new year and soon we will be celebrating the Lunar New Year! As we focus on our walk with the Lord this year, l would like to share an article that Pastor Edmund Chan wrote recently to his friends and mentees on Spiritual Dryness. In this article Pastor Ed speaks of the “paradox of an outward busyness and an inward spiritual barrenness which is worrisome”. We may seem to be bearing much fruit but in actuality we may be truly barren.