Meeting Professor Lawrence Chan at a wedding

A doctor with a heart for pastors and missionaries I have sometimes wondered what had happened to that wonderful gynaecologist who delivered all my children. Dr Lawrence Chan, a Christian elder in a Brethren church, was very gracious towards missionaries and pastors. He delivered their babies free of charge. If the wife was working, they would […]

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Medication and meditation

Vertigo is literally nauseating and crippling.  It happened to me two Saturdays ago. I woke up to go for a Saturday trek to Bukit Timah hill but everything around me spun and I was totally disorientated and vomited. With my hands on my wife’s shoulder, I went to a clinic nearby and was given medication […]

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Speaking in tongues: a personal reflection

And they spake with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance… Tongues respectable and acceptable The gift of speaking in tongues is no longer the hot potato subject it was in the 1970’s when the charismatic movement influenced the Anglican and Methodist and Lutheran denominations.  The gift of tongues has become a respectable and […]

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