Self-Control: Patience in God’s Process
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
By Tina Teng-Henson Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin Patient Trust Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, somet... .. read more..
Olive’s Top 5 Reads of 2024
Monday, December 30, 2024
I read a number of really good books in 2024. In total, I completed 53 books, I’m still in the middle of one, and I dropped a couple novels partway through because I just wasn’t enjoying fiction. Choosing my top 5 for this year was a challenge, but I have picked 5 and I will list my r... .. read more..
Self-Control: The Power of Saying No
Monday, December 30, 2024
By April Yamasaki When it comes to practical examples of self-control, I might automatically think of eating just a few potato chips instead of the whole family-size bag. Or spending within my budget instead of maxing out my credit card. But over the last months, it seems that every email I... .. read more..
Self-Control: Stillness Amidst Anxiety
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
By Jerrica KF Ching To reflect upon self-control around the busy holiday seasons is a privilege in my eyes, as it has allowed me to take careful stock upon what I prioritize during the final two months out of the year. This year I planned further ahead than I typically would for holiday gif... .. read more..
Self-Control: Saints & Sweets
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
By Emi Iwanaga “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,forbearance, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, gentlenessand self-control.…let us keep in step with the Spirit.”Galatians 5:22,25 NIV Saints, Sweets, and…Self-Control?? Fruit of the SpiritI want to be filled with it.Love, joy... .. read more..
Behind the Writing of “The 26 Gifts of Christ’s Finished work”
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
My sincere apologies for the lengthy period when this blog was down. Something went wrong and it needed to be fixed. My friend Vee, was occupied with her work but thankfully she found some time to do the backend work on the blog to get it up again. Quite a few exciting things have happened […] .. read more..
Self-Control: Black Friday Frenzy Insights
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
By Melanie Mar Chow Gal 5:22-23 – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 2 Tim. 1:7 – For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. In this season of... .. read more..
Gentleness: Strength to Let Another Life Flourish
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
By Ajung Sojwal Gentleness as a fruit of the Spirit has been one of the more complicated things for me to understand or even embrace. My struggle lies in the fact that traditionally gentleness has been touted as a much-sought-after feminine virtue, which in turn has been manipulated to subdue and... .. read more..
Gentleness: Becoming Illuminators
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
By Angela Ryo As I thought about the word “gentleness,” there was someone who came to my mind. This person truly saw me for who I was. I believe that was because of his gentleness. When was the last time you felt truly seen by others? When was the last time you truly saw others […] .. read more..
Deaf Faith Fellowship: Preaching to the deaf congregation
Friday, November 8, 2024
They may be deaf or hearing impaired physically but spiritually their ears are opened by the Lord and they have come to know Christ and to follow him. Pastor Barnabas Phua has retired after decades of faithful and fruitful service and the ministry staff Mui Keng is now in charge. While I was thei... .. read more..
Gentleness: As Rooted in Christ
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
By Julia Qiuye Zhao When I was fourteen, a relative gave me a copy of Mabel Hale’s Beautiful Girlhood. First published in 1922, this book combines timeless lessons about honesty, responsibility, self-care and friendship with admonitions about modesty and simplicity in dress, homemaking and obedie... .. read more..
A Satisfying Weekend
Friday, November 1, 2024
Day of Prayer: Gift Immeasurable This past weekend was significant and satisfying. We accompanied participants in a Day of Prayer at Montfort Centre. The retreat theme was “Gift Immeasurable.” Kelvyanne Teoh and Zerah Goh were the retreat facilitators and Chris Joy and Diana Tan were ... .. read more..
Faithfulness: Signpost of God’s Faithful Care
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
By Eunhyey Lok This past July, my family and I drove from California to Minnesota. In the months leading up to this drive, I actively sought signs and reminders of God’s faithfulness. The drive marked our transition from our life in Los Angeles to a new way of living in my childhood home. T... .. read more..
Pastor Rony Tan: Evangelist Extraordinaire
Friday, October 18, 2024
Pastor Rony Tan went home to his Lord and Master on the 16th of September 2024, aged 79 years old. He passed away peacefully after suffering from sciatic nerve pain for two years and a recently discovered complicated tumour. For the joy of meeting his Master, whom he served faithfully, he endured... .. read more..
Faithfulness: What it Means to Me
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
By Yuri Yamamoto I am from Japan. Until I was fifty, I was running away from myself, my worst enemy. I didn’t know why but distinctly remember hating myself as a young child. I felt dirty, ugly, angry, and helpless. I did well in school and even had some friends. Still, deep inside, I knew […] .. read more..
New Horizon Church: Blessed with Hope and a Future
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
New Horizon Church is the only three-in-one church in Singapore. What do I mean by that? It has gone through two mergers. The first was a merger of two churches – the older Herald Assembly of God with Agape Christian Community, another Assembly of God church. You can read more about the merger HE... .. read more..
Latest surgery--a good one, with a bad dream, and a Bible reading
Sunday, July 14, 2024
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Day surgery
Monday, May 20, 2024
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Olive’s Top 5 Reads of 2023
Friday, January 5, 2024
2023 was a decent year for reading for me. I made more space in my life for doing puzzles but still managed to read a total of 52 books. Quite a few were books I read at bedtime with my kids, including the Chronicles of Narnia series, the Hobbit, and the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy (which I c... .. read more..
Friday, December 1, 2023
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Latin’s Four Pronunciations in the English-speaking World
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Latin continues to be important for the life of Anglo-Saxon cultures. The Anglo-Saxon world, however, has four fully competent pronunciations of Latin with each its own integrity; all other variants commonly used by Anglo-Saxons are imperfect attempts to approximate one … Continue reading &... .. read more..
How are you?
Thursday, July 20, 2023
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Charlotte Mason’s Educational Philosophy a Remedy to Problems in Some of Toda...
Monday, July 10, 2023
The more I learn about Charlotte Mason’s understanding of man and the ends of education, and the pædagogical methods by which this understanding is used in the actual teaching of children, the more I think it a remedy to the … Continue reading → .. read more..
Lue-Yee Tsang on a True Sola Scriptura Response to the Errors of Buggery and ...
Saturday, June 24, 2023
At The North American Anglican, I have written an article after one written by James Clark responding to Hans Boersma, Gerald McDermott, and Greg Peters on GAFCON’s Kigali Commitment: The right response is not to reject the classical Protestant understanding … Continue reading → .. read more..
Lue-Yee Tsang on Canon Wars in Classical Christian Education
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Forgot earlier this month to link to my article for the Davenant Institute’s Ad Fontes journal, ‘Whose Classical Education? Which Canon War?’ I contend for a cultural specificity in classical education, to bring out in each tradition the truths about … Continue reading → .. read more..
Unhealthy to Be Constantly Getting Ready for an Exam
Friday, May 5, 2023
‘Can it be good, from the age of 10 to the age of 23, to be always preparing for an exam, and always knowing that your whole worldly future depends on it: and not only knowing it, but perpetually reminded … Continue reading → .. read more..
On Being Indian & American
Friday, April 28, 2023
The following is a reflection from the Advance Initiative Conference in 2019 and was written as an assignment for a writing cohort I was part of. More information on The Advance Initiative can be found at https://advanceinitiative.com/. I don’t go to Advance Conference to learn about church plant... .. read more..
Crush busyness with this game changing habit
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
You’re busy. I’m busy. Everyone’s busy. I’m sure you’ve felt days where... The post Crush busyness with this game changing habit first appeared on Phil Chan . .. read more..
Anticipating AI: 4 Predictions and How Christians Should Prepare
Monday, March 27, 2023
Will AI make the world a better or worse place? And how... The post Anticipating AI: 4 Predictions and How Christians Should Prepare first appeared on Phil Chan . .. read more..
People who are teachable reach their call in God
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Let me ask you a question that is so important to your... The post People who are teachable reach their call in God first appeared on Phil Chan . .. read more..
The 18th Century Not a Liturgical Model for Today in Ornaments of Church and ...
Monday, February 27, 2023
One reason, I believe, that 18th-century England’s neglect of the Holy Communion service’s Ornaments Rubric ought not to be interpreted as a norm for Anglican practice today, a reason implied by Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton in The … Continue reading → .. read more..
Two Essays, for Letters and Lent
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
This week, two of my essays have been published, one with (Christian and non-Christian) American revisionists and the other with Anglicans: May the Lord bless you with faith and lead your heart to repentance as we enter the fasting of … Continue reading → .. read more..
China and the Idea of Empire
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Alain de Benoist says in his essay ‘L’Idée d’Empire’ (English translation at Gornahoor) that empire has a spiritual aspect to its authority, distinct from territorial definition. In consequence, in his judgement, ‘the decline of the empire throughout the centuries is … Continue readin... .. read more..