Adventures in East Timor – Part 1

I have had an amazing start to 2013, beginning with the privilege of serving with an awesome team of people from Faith Community Church on a short-term mission trip to East Timor, followed by a relaxing holiday with some friends in Bali. What I saw in East Timor was eye-opening and confronting. In my next […]

Lift Up Those Hands

I’m in Bali at the moment and one of the things I really hate is the traffic. The roads are narrow, the sidewalk is uneven and there are cars and motorbikes everywhere. Crossing the road is quite an undertaking. What my friend does is that he steps onto the road with his hand outstretched, palm […]

Hungry!!!

When I get hungry, I’m no fun to be around. I get cranky. Real cranky. Just ask my wife. When you are hungry, you are longing for something which is yours to have, but which you may not yet have taken hold of. I’m reading Bill Johnson’s Hosting the Presence at the moment. Johnson observes […]

New Every Morning

Happy 2013 worship revolutionaries! We began the year by locking ourselves out of the bedroom in Ling’s cousin’s house (while the cousin was away in the UK). All our phones, wallets and keys were in the room. We were virtually prisoners in a nice little apartment with a roof top jacuzzi. But that’s beside the […]

12 Fruit for 12 Months: The Year of Unceasing Fruitfulness in Review

So we come to the last day of 2012 and it’s always good to end by revisiting the premise set forth at the beginning. It helps us to see how far we have come and how faithful God is. As I shared in an earlier post, we were at the first and last services of […]

Steppin’ Out: Reflections on Global Day of Worship

It’s now the 364th day of the year (sorry I started writing this on 30th December and I’m only finishing it on the 31st). Today, I was challenged as I went to New Creation Church (I’m in Singapore at the moment) for the final service of 2012. I was there during the first service of […]

Communicating and Shaping Culture by Drilling and Detonating

In my last post, one of the observations I made was about the arts communicating and shaping culture. At its core, the gospel is about transformation. Which is why I believe worship, in all its various musical, visual and artistic expressions will play a critical role in the gospel’s penetrating society and bringing change and […]

Confessions of a Dyed-in-the-Wool Worship Musician

I just got back from the Blu Jaz Club in Singapore, where I heard some really brilliant jazz music by the Charlie Lim Band. My thanks to Ben Ngooi for the invite! I have to say, I was inspired. A number of things ran through my mind in the midst of the heady mix of […]

Never Once Did We Ever Walk Alone

We always get a bit reflective when we get to the end of the year. And that’s okay because being reflective is often the beginning of gratitude. I don’t know what sort of year you’ve had, but I’ve had an amazing year! I’ll do a full write-up on 31 December. But no matter what kind […]

For to Us a Child is Born

Well, I can hardly believe it’s nearly the end of the year and the festive season is upon us. Firstly, I apologise for not having had much time to write in the past month. It’s been full of activity, from Global Day of Worship to finishing up work before the holidays to preparing for a […]