Some Darn Good Questions for Young Marketplace Ministers

I have noticed that Singapore Christianity is pretty cutting-edge in terms of harnessing community transformation principles. Years ago, Singapore was used as a prototype for a massive city-taking campaign. The argument went that if you could see the city transformed, then the nation too would be saved given that, in Singapore’s case, the city is […]

Honour and the Heart of Worship

It was good to be back home after being away for nearly a month, with two weekends spent in Sydney sandwiching the Hillsong Conference (which was pure amazing) and then ministering last week at another church. Maybe it was the sense of missing something that made me appreciate it more (like being on a diet […]

Should I Be Enjoying the Worship?

Last night, I held our first mentoring group meeting: a cosy group of guys in the worship ministry hungry to grow together and learn from each other. We had really interesting discussions, sharing our journeys, our dreams and our understanding of worship as we began to work our way together through Bob Kauflin’s book, Worship Matters. […]

Worship: The Centre of Existence

It’s been a while since I last posted. Life has just gotten really busy. But I recently had to do some assignments for Metro Worship Academy. I haven’t written assignments in years! My friend Kelwin says that they should call them “adventures”, rather than “assignments”. We will see… In an interview with the Canberra Times[1], […]

Adventures in East Timor – Part 6

It’s Sunday, the 6th of January – Day 4 of our mission trip – and it was the Sabbath! I was looking forward to this day because Amos, a youth leader on our team, was going to deliver the Sunday message. I’m always up for hearing fresh preachers. Sometimes we are used to the same […]

Adventures in East Timor – Part 3

It’s 3 January 2013 – the official first day of the mission trip. We all got up bright and early, packed our bags and made our way to the All Seasons Hotel restaurant for an early breakfast, before loading up two taxis for the trip to Denpasar Airport. Gary, our team leader, had already been […]

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 […]

Hip-Pocket Worship

I like money. There! I’ve said it. (Hopefully, I don’t love money). If you were honest, you would more likely than not admit that you like money too. Why? Money makes life more comfortable and convenient. It helps you meet your basic needs, but can also supply you with some of life’s luxuries as well, […]

Announcing the Perth Global Day of Worship Team

Well, we are now only weeks away from the Global Day of Worship on 12.12.12 and I’m glad to say that we’ve secured a great venue for GDW Perth and an awesome worship team of worship leaders, musicians and singers from different churches in the city. The venue: Lifestreams Christian Church, Corner Murray Street and […]

Global Day of Worship: 12.12.12

I’m really excited to be part of Global Day of Worship 2012 on 12 December 2012. Imagine this: at 7 pm on 12 December 2012 in every time zone, Christians will gather in unity to worship for an hour or more. Globally, this means that as the earth rotates, we will move from one group […]