April 11, 2023
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Book reviews
| Tags: book review, books, missions
Inspired and encouraged by the life of Henry Martyn, Eric Lui shares excerpts from Sarah J Rhea's book, "Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812", highlighting the thoughts and struggles the missionary had with his antagonists in India and Persia, and how he persevered despite ill-health....
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January 25, 2023
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Book reviews
| Tags: book review, sanctification, holiness, godliness
Eric Lui reflects on one of the sermons by Andrew Gray presented in "Be Reconciled with God", a collection of twelve sermons preached by the Scottish preacher. ...
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November 26, 2022
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Book reviews
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Eric Lui reflects on Richard Sibbes' book on the encounter between Jesus and Mary Magadalene at the empty tomb on the first Easter Sunday....
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May 3, 2022
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Book reviews
| Tags: book review, Spirit
Eric Lui shares with us a review of "On the Soul and Its Origin" by Augustine of Hippo. His true name is Aurelius Augustinus and he lived from 354 to 430 AD in a little town in Algeria. ...
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December 20, 2021
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Book reviews
| Tags: Jonathan Edwards, love, fruit, book review
Eric Lui introduces us to "Charity and Its Fruits", a collection of Jonathan Edwards' sermons on 1 Corinthians 13 while he was pastor of the Church of Northhampton. ...
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November 17, 2021
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Book reviews
| Tags: community, book review
"Side by Side" is a book by Edward Welch that a group of GBC members have been reading together for the past few months. Koon Han, who has been involved in this reading group, shares some key points from the book. ...
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October 13, 2021
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Book reviews
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Our pastoral intern, Rolland reviews the book "The Trellis and the Vine", which is helpful for us to think about discipleship as a church. ...
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February 15, 2021
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Eric Lui summarises J Gresham Machen's seminal book on Christianity and liberalism....
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August 17, 2020
| Tags: book review, discipleship, bible reading, Disciple-making
Pastor Oliver Chia reviews David Helm's One-to-One Bible Reading: A Simple Guide for Every Christian. ...
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June 16, 2020
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Uncategorized
| Tags: book review, books, mums connect, motherhood
Emily Seck shares how reading the book, Risen Motherhood — Gospel Hope for Everyday Moments by Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler, with the Mum's Connect group has helped her see God’s purpose for her in motherhood. ...
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June 9, 2020
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Uncategorized
| Tags: book review, books, Romans
Eric Lui recommends The Plight of Man and the Power of God, a compilation of five clear and powerful expositions on Romans 1 by Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones....
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May 5, 2020
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Michael Wee reviews Edward T Welch's book, When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man....
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April 29, 2020
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Eric Lui shares the salient points he picked up from reading John Piper's Let the Nations Be Glad!...
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February 18, 2020
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Eric Lui reads Earl M Blackburn’s short biography on John Chrysostom and gives us a snapshot of the life of this great preacher of the early church....
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December 10, 2019
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Uncategorized
| Tags: book review, Jonathan Edwards
Eric Lui helps us unpack the message and exhortation of Jonathan Edwards' "A Divine and Supernatural Light" which was originally a sermon preached by Edwards in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1734....
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November 11, 2019
| Tags: book review, Reformation
Eric Lui highly recommends Michael Reeves’ The Unquenchable Flame – Introducing the Reformation to all who would like to have a good understanding of what the Reformation is and why it is so important....
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September 18, 2019
| Tags: book review, books, Jonathan Edwards, fruit
What are the distinguishing marks of the people who enjoy God’s favour? Eric Lui delves into the book, 'The Experience that Counts!' to answer the question....
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August 12, 2019
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Uncategorized
| Tags: book review, Sin, eNews, Grace eNews
Eric Lui shares with us some of the lessons learnt as he reads John Owen's "The Mortification of Sin — Dealing with sin in your life" which centers on Romans 8:13. ...
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July 15, 2019
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Uncategorized
| Tags: book review, books, eNews, Grace eNews, hymns
Eric Lui reviews Faith Cook's "Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns" and shares an interesting anecdote of Isaac Watts....
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May 6, 2019
| Tags: book review, Evangelism, apologetics
Eric Liu reviews OS Guinness' Fool's Talk to encourage us to read the book to have a better understanding of Christian apologetics and advocacy. ...
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February 12, 2019
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Uncategorized
| Tags: book review, eNews, Grace eNews
Eric Lui reviews for us Alex Moyer's 'Roots: Let the Old Testament Speak'. He hopes that this first book review of the year will provoke interest in our congregation to read more Christian books this year....
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October 3, 2018
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Grace eNews
| Tags: book review, reading, spiritual formation, heaven
Eric Lui pens a review for John Bunyan's "The Heavenly Footman", we hope it encourages you to pick up this short book which exhorts us to run with Christ!...
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January 14, 2015
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Grace News (Quarterly)
| Tags: grace news, book review
Samuel Beh reviews a book that renewed his thinking about God’s purpose and transformed his walk with God at school and at work....
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October 4, 2014
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Grace News (Quarterly)
| Tags: book review, discipleship
Soh Swee Kiat encourages us to move faith forward and walk on water, as he reviews this book on faith by Dr John Ortberg.
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September 23, 2014
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Grace News (Quarterly)
| Tags: book review, community
Through a book recommendation, Lim Nee Kiah ignites a revelation on marital encouragement and edification in a lady involved in a dating relationship....
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July 5, 2014
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Grace News (Quarterly)
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Pastor Oliver Chia recommends a book on discipleship that usefully combines theology with practical applications....
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March 24, 2014
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Grace News (Quarterly)
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Rachel Wong reviews this book by DeMoss on how revival comes about when we undergo brokenness before God and others....
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