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Thanks to the person who spammed my condo’s mailboxes with a questionable touring preacher’s event. It just ends up giving the Church a bad name. I couldn’t help seeing the irony of a trash can full of flyers entitled “Good News Singapore”. The word Gospel means a herald or good news but then I get [...]

One of the main outcomes of this economic down is that everyone is redefining what they value and what they need. We as people had become so overinflated in our personal value as consumers that we had to reach a point that the obese belly of our economic system would trip itself up. A society [...]

One day I went to the shop to get some water. Whilst I was taking a look around it’s many aisles and shelves I was alarmed when I saw someone start a fire in the corner of a shop. I’ve been burnt before and know the consequences of such arson. I immediately began yelling “Fire”. [...]

Often quoted, Prov 29:18 usually gets pulled out when a church is setting new directions or launching a building program but is that what it’s really about?
Rarely do you hear this verse in full which becomes apparent when you think of the context people are trying to use it in.
King James - “Where there is [...]

I think I only just came to the realisation that culture is swinging towards a yet further liberal position as a whole. I’ve generally held the position that people are corrupt no matter the time period and that what happens openly in society itself just changes. I’m slightly rethinking that since what happens in the [...]

It’s been 3 weeks since I disrupted small group because I disagreed with what John Chiong was teaching that night - in short “Name it - claim it” theology. I had come with the intention to leave the group at the end of the night giving an account for my reason yet it became apparent [...]

I really feel that we as a global Church do not educate people on what the decision they are making is before we ask them to make it. This results in people having an ill formed image of God that they commit to so when that image is expanded upon in their Christian walk then [...]

Dear Father, I have experienced the selfishness of others as they’ve sought to fulfill their insecurities through the lives of others. I’d dearly ask that you wont allow these sins to go on unpunished. For it is not vengance I seek but I long to see their cycle broken. Lord stand for the oppressed and [...]

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Whilst I’ll leave my initial comments here untouched. I feel I would be remiss to not mention that I can’t really recommend The Vine any longer. During my attendance during 2007 I raised a major issue with the counseling methods and conduct of one of the counselors, James Stewart (also known as [...]

I’m sure we’ve all heard the analogy of the Church being the body of Christ, with him being the head. I’ve always thought about this analogy probably in far too much detail than it was originally intended. I was listening to Derek’s sermon at 180 on the weekend and he made a one line red [...]