BY JOSEPH TAN

“How long, O Lord, must I call for help? But you do not listen!

“Violence is everywhere!” I cry, but you do not come to save.”

HABAKKUK 1:2 (NLT)

BY ELDER TAY BOON TEE

The Hymn – “TO THE WORK” is a familiar song sung by Glory Church over the decades. This hymn written by Fanny Crosby some 150 years ago still resonates with me whenever we sing it during our worship service.

BY PR EVANGELINE CHEONG

Sometimes when I go through tough times and dark days, I tend to not see the little surprises of grace that God brings into every moment of my life. Yet the truth is, our God constantly reaches out. He sent Christ to reach even the leper. Jesus reaches out to the lowly and poor; to you and me. May the Lord continue to abide with each of us every day and allow us the joy of abiding with Him as His child.

BY PR EVANGELINE CHEONG

God’s idea of freedom and abundant life seems to cost us so much that many resist laying down their lives and denying themselves for Christ!  Yet in holding to our old selves and old lives, we hold ourselves captive to sin and its effects. May God grant us insight into this elaborate plan of the evil one and grant us grace and true freedom as we lay ourselves at His feet.

BY PR EVANGELINE CHEONG

During the National Day season, we will hear Kit Chan sing about Singapore as “Home truly,” but as God’s people we are constantly singing instead that “This world is not my home, I’m just a-passing through!” That “our citizenship is in heaven” (Phil 3:20).

Some have taken this to mean that this world is all bad and we are just biding our time to go to heaven. Others have taken to withdrawing from society or think it’s not necessary for us to be involved in the community that we live in or be bothered about politics as these things are “of this world” and pour our energies into church activities instead as they are of “eternal value.” In our desire for “a better country, that is, a heavenly one” (Hebrews 11:16) we can live in such a heavenly minded way that we are of no earthly good. 

BY PR EVANGELINE CHEONG

In the last few weeks, some old injuries have given me a few nights where MacDonald’s words rang in my head throughout the night: “the sore unrest that tosses still.”

When what is supposed to bring rest to my body, like sitting or even lying down, brings unrest! In those times of unrest, of body and soul, I am thankful for friends who pointed me to draw back to the God who is near and willing to be with me in the dark times.