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How can we honour our parents especially when we disagree with them? In this episode, Simon, Tarryn and Jacob continue their conversation on how to apply the gospel specifically in our families, particularly in challenging relationships with our parents. They discuss how we honour our parents in a way that pleases God and not men, and how we can engage our parents in a way that embodies Christ by thinking about our heart motivations and looking to Jesus as the perfect son to his Father.
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Simon interviews his wife, Tarryn, and Jacob Ng, Assistant Lead Pastor at RHC, on how to navigate difficult family situations with the help of the gospel. In the first of a two-part series, Jacob and Tarryn share their observations from counselling people through their challenges, and how people can start to think biblically about familial relationships by looking to God’s word.
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In this episode, Simon and Edward share their personal experiences of how their natural families have influenced them in their faith and in their interactions with their children. They also discuss what it means to live out the gospel in our natural families, and how our spiritual family can help us to do that.
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Simon, Purch, and Ed continue their conversation on church planting in Singapore by exploring what God' says about church planting in his word. Using the early church in Acts as a starting point, they celebrate the diversity of communities within the local church and discuss what a healthy church plant looks like throughout the different stages.
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Please note that this episode was recorded before the 4 May 2021 government updates of returning to Phase 2. Thank you for your understanding as some of the details shared in this episode may not reflect our current climate.
Simon and Ed explore the losses and gains of how the pandemic has affected the physical gathering of the Church, being part of the bigger body of Christ, and relational capital within the community. They also discuss the idea of what it means to worship through the gathering of God’s people and raise the challenge for believers to consider this question: “How are you loving your neighbor by coming to church and by prioritising physical gathering over livestream at home?” -
Simon interviews Edward, who is starting a Chinese church plant soon, and Andrew Purchase, Pastor and Director of City Renewal at Redemption Hill Church, on church planting specifically in Singapore. Together, they discuss how church planting benefits not only the city but also the church that chooses to send their best to plant other churches rooted in the gospel and committed to discipleship. As Christians called to fulfill the great commission to make disciples of all nations, the act of church planting helps to bring this to bear by promoting diversity and inclusivity in the advancement of God’s Kingdom.
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In this episode, Simon interviews Ryuta Kimura, pastor of OO+ Church in the Kichijoji neighborhood of Tokyo, and Damian Grateley, lead pastor of GraceCity Church in Nagoya. Ryuta begins by sharing how the gospel started spreading during the Edo period of Japanese history till today as spiritual hardness has plagued the culture reducing the number of christians to only 1% of the population. Despite the spiritual hardness of the Japanese people, Damian and Ryuta share encouraging aspects of how the Japanese church is still growing and how the gospel is taking deeper root in the hearts of the people.
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In this episode, Edward interviews Rev Tan Huai Tze, Lead Pastor of One Covenant church, about why he decided to go into vocational ministry and the joys and challenges of church planting in Singapore. Tze shares how church is really about broken people who have encountered a gracious God and not just a consumeristic service provider.
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Real ministry is getting involved in people's lives, their struggles, and their sanctification. In this episode, Simon and Edward share how they started in ministry and discuss ways on how members of the church can get involved in using their gifts to serve the needs of the body.
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In this episode, Simon interviews Jacob Ng, Redemption Hill Church’s Assistant Lead Pastor, on his recent sabbatical which Jacob took after 7 years of ministry and service. Jacob shares about how God has shaped him the past 3 months during his sabbatical to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to rest in Jesus.
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The gospel provides us wisdom for all of life, including parenting. In this episode, Simon and Ed talk about their families while sharing the joys and difficulties they have encountered on their parenting journeys.
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What is sanctification and how does the gospel shape the way we repent? Simon and Edward discuss these common gospel jargons and, through examples from their own lives, how we can apply our understanding of the gospel and sanctification to our lives.
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The word ‘gospel’ has been often thrown around today as a buzz word. In this episode, Simon and Ed discuss the meaning of the gospel, the dangers of overusing and under explaining the phrase, and how we can seek clarity when we use it in the context of ministry.
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In this episode, Ed and Simon discuss how the idea of consumerism, defined as the acquisition of goods and services in ever increasing amounts, shape the way we approach our faith and our identity in Christ. As the church is not divorced from culture, they exchange views on how consumerism interacts with the purpose of the church and how it affects our relationship with christian community.
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Aidan Spencer, worship elder at Redemption Hill Church, shares how the gospel shapes the way we worship in all of life, respond to God, and strengthen the way we evangelise and edify one another.
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Eugene Low, pastor of Grace Baptist Church, shares with us how the Bible challenges our assumptions about community. Community in and of itself is not Christian, so how should it look like when it is shaped by the Gospel? Simon, Ed, and Eugene explore how we can expect to face messiness in church community, and how God uses conflict as a means to grow us in Christ-likeness, and to lead us toward reconciliation.
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Simon and Ed discuss how the gospel helps us to grow in our sanctification, in the ministry of the word, and our relationship with God and others.
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Guna Raman, CEO of City to City Asia Pacific (CTCAP), shares with Simon and Ed on how the gospel profoundly shaped him during the 30 years he served as senior pastor of Agape Baptist Church.
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How does the gospel intersect with church culture? Ed and Simon discuss how what we love, celebrate, hate and dislike affect our shared experience and how the gospel continually transforms that within the church.
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