The Year of His Restoration

Every year when I’m in Singapore, one of the things that has now become a bit of a custom is for me to attend New Creation Church’s Vision Sunday which is held on the first Sunday of the year. It’s not that I’m not into my own church’s vision, because I am. (In Faith Community Church […]

A New Season in 2015

Happy new year friends! Two thousand and fourteen has been a bittersweet year. There has been some good stuff and also some not so good stuff. As I reflect over the past year, I am thankful for my amazing church, Faith Community Church and what God has been doing in our worship ministry. Some of […]

Week 5 Chronicles: Exuberant Praise

Week 5 Chronicles is an occasional series on experiments in worship formats. Every church has its own worship style and tradition. Whatever form your expression of worship takes, I believe that true worship must be exuberant. Why? Because we serve a God of superlatives. His worth is matchless. And his sacrifice for us was extravagant. Romans […]

6 Principles for Preparing an Effective Songlist

The first time I led worship was when I was 14 years old. I was in a small youth group with 6 guys and a token girl. The girl didn’t hang around for too long because all the guys ever wanted to do was play basketball. Back in those days, worship cassettes were getting really […]

Beyond Production?

I’ve been reflecting recently. It’s been over a year now since Dave Wong and I took over the leadership of the worship ministry at Faith Community Church and it’s been an amazing journey so far. We’ve enjoyed building relationships, casting vision and seeing the ministry become more cohesive. For me, one of the greatest achievements […]

7 Things I’ve Learnt About Serving God

Recently, my church (Faith Community Church) has been going through a season focussed on being equipped for service. It is an important emphasis, because a telling sign of a healthy church is a high volunteer participation rate. With all the talk about service, and the mobilisation of church members into different ministries, I have been […]

Week 5 Chronicles: Acoustic Worship

Today, I want to start a new occasional series called “Week 5 Chronicles”. In my church, we organise worship teams in four bands. Band 1 plays on the first Sunday of the month, Band 2 plays on the second Sunday and so forth. Every three months, however, we have a fifth Sunday of the month […]

Why Some Christians are No Longer “Born Again”

For the longest time, the church has misused the term “born-again”. Evangelical Christians have long used that term to refer to the conversion experience, probably because it appears a couple of times in John 3 in close proximity to Jesus’ famous words in verse 16 (“For God so love the world…”). If John 3:16 is […]

From the Archives: Why the Church Needs to Embrace Change

Last Sunday, Peter Tsukahira preached an awesome message on Change, which really resonated with me. I will post my thoughts on that shortly. In the meantime, here is a post I wrote some time ago about the need for change. People often ask me: wouldn’t world missions and evangelism be so much easier if Jesus […]

Recovering the Priesthood

I’ve just had a really massive weekend. It started with the Shabbat Dinner on Friday night in the lead up to the “Unleashing the Elijah Legacy” conference; then starting at 6.30 am to set up for the Conference worship on Saturday, going the whole day, starting at 6.30 am on Sunday for worship at FCC, […]