EAST Staff Retreat 2018
Rev Dr Daniel Chua (Mount Carmel B-P Church), spoke on the theme of “One Heart” at EAST annual Staff Retreat 2018. Pastor Daniel covered “The heart God wants,” “Hearts knit as one,” and “Standing together as one” in his messages. The biblical characters of Saul, David, and Jonathan as covered in 1 Samuel were used to flag leadership dangers, focus on building strong relationships, and foster team unity.
Small group discussions after each message helped to crystalize implications and applications on the personal and team level. Team building exercises using personality profiles drew much fun and laughter amidst self-disclosure and team games. For work sessions, the team covered three areas: A thanksgiving time of reflecting on God’s faithfulness over the past school year; a time to refresh the roots, vision, mission, and values of our school; and a problem solving time to address identified priority issues as a team. Praise God for the meaningful time of relational connections and planning.
Worldview and Biblical Decision Making (Day Course)
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TS560 Worldview and Biblical Decision Making (2 credits)
Wednesdays, 9.00 am-11.15 amYour worldview shapes how you live even if you don’t know what it is and how it works. This course seeks to explore the big questions of life to enable you to better understand, defend, and live out your faith in the marketplace of competing ideas and lifestyles. It will also help you develop a biblically-informed framework for making moral decisions.
Lewis Winkler, PhD
Lewis joined Cru in 1987 and has taught in three seminaries in the USA and Asia. He enjoys interacting with students over basketball and casual discussion on how the Bible applies to life and issues today.
Registration deadline is Monday, 9 July 2018. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
Theology 1 (Day Course)
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TS510 Theology 1 (3 credits)
Fridays, 1.45 pm-5.00 pmSurvey, interact with, and imaginatively apply in contemporary context the major theological and scriptural doctrines relating to the Bible, God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Pre-requisite: BS510 Bible Study Methods and Hermeneutics, TS510 Worldview and Biblical Decision Making or IS520 Contextualisation.
Clive Chin, PhD
Clive Chin is the Senior Pastor of Orchard Road Presbyterian Church, having served as a pastor for 17 years in Chinese churches in the USA. In the last 13 years, he served as a theological educator in the USA and Asia, including being Academic Dean at Singapore Bible College. He holds a PhD in Biblical and Theological Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary (USA), and a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (USA). He has authored two books: The Perception of Christianity as a Rational Religion in Singapore, and Mystical Union and Imitation of Christ. He and his wife, Rhonda, have two children, Elisabeth (21) and Stephen (18).
Registration deadline is Monday, 9 July 2018. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
Church History 1 (Day Course)
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TS500 Church History 1 (3 credits)
Tuesdays & Fridays, 9.00 am-10.30 amDo you know your spiritual heritage? This course will take you through a study of Christianity from the late first century to the rise of the Enlightenment. There is special emphasis on key figures and events as well as theological developments in the Church through these centuries.
Lewis Winkler, PhD
Lewis joined Cru in 1987 and has taught in three seminaries in the USA and Asia. He enjoys interacting with students over basketball and casual discussion on how the Bible applies to life and issues today.
Registration deadline is Monday, 9 July 2018. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
Is peace hard-wired in our DNA?
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr ~
Photo: The Australian
“In our much divided world of ethnic violence, racial discrimination, gender inequality, income disparity, political extremism, the Trump-Kim Summit is a beacon of light in a world of darkness,” wrote Dr John Ng recently. Read his article on how peace may well be hard-wired in our DNA. He explains his belief that “every one of us deeply desires peace in our marriages, families, organizations, countries and in the world.”
John is a Singaporean Christian leader who teaches biblical peacemaking, leads workshops on it, and has been called upon to mediate among disparate parties in conflict resolution. Shalom.
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