Living and Loving from the Inside Out

Posted by jonathan on May 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Some 60 people participated in the recent EAST Public Talk by Dr Joe Dongell on the topic of “Loving from the Inside Out.” This is based on the ongoing personal study of Dr Dongell on scriptural perspective on love. It provides the biblical vision of love that challenges our thinking about love which opens up new ways of loving and ministering.

Dr Joseph Dongell, PhD, is professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, USA. He is in town primarily to confer a PhD degree on an EAST Resident Faculty, Mr Benson Goh, at the EAST 24th Commencement Service. Dr Dongell has graciously agreed to present talks and sermons at EAST and selected Methodist churches in Singapore whilst he is here. Praise God for His servant-hearted teacher!

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Gospel Tool for Honour-Shame Cultures

Posted by jonathan on May 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment

There is a new contextualized gospel tract which targets cultures where honour and shame predominates (such as African, Asian, Middle-Eastern, etc.). It was developed by Cru based on the HonorShame Reference Bookmark. The Honor Restored gospel tract is found within the God Tools mobile app and available in multiple languages. A third-party review of the Honor Restored tract is found here.

According to the Honor-Shame Network, “about 90% of unreached people groups and 65% of the world’s population lives in honor-shame contexts.” There are additional gospel resources for reaching honour-shame cultures on the HonorShame.com website.

Picture courtesy of HonorShame.com

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Sacred Parenting with EAST PIM

Posted by jonathan on May 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment

The EAST Partners in Ministry (PIM) program is designed for wives of seminary students, or whose husbands are ministers or in vocational Christian ministry. PIM seeks to develop wives as they grow in partnership with their husbands and in their own circle of influence.

The above photo is the PIM group who went through the fruitful 6-week course on “Sacred Parenting” with resources from Gary Thomas. The PIM ladies are so blessed by the biblically-based material and group interactions. They learnt how God uses the challenges and struggles in parenting as God’s spiritual formation curriculum to shape each parent to be more like the Heavenly Father.

As believers, there will never a time when our journey towards holiness is done–even or especially as parents. Gary Thomas said, “Parenting puts the spotlight on our weaknesses … We can choose to let sin tear apart our families, or we can use our families to tear apart our sin.”

Photo courtesy of Josephine Lam. A portion of text originated from Josephine Lam and Margaret Chan.

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New Testament Found in the Old

Posted by jonathan on April 30, 2018 · Leave a Comment

The study of Genesis to Esther, through the Old Testament Narratives course, highlights that the God of the Old Testament is the same God we worship today. It has been said that “The New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed in the New.” Many themes we find in the New Testament have their roots in the history of Israel.

The students in the class appreciated the unfolding drama of God’s redemptive plan for man. Dr Jeremy Chew, the class teacher, taught how each book advances God’s plan to raise up a chosen people and a holy nation. Indeed the New is found in the Old.

Photo courtesy of Michael Tien.

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