What is Love?
There’s a lot of confusion about the meaning of love these days. In some recent weddings, I’ve heard couples close their vows with the phrase, “as long as we both shall love.” That’s quite a shift from “as long as we both shall live.” Such a change moves marital commitments away from decisions of the will to decisions of the heart.
By defining love in almost exclusively emotional terms, popular culture has tended to ignore or even exclude any elements of truth, righteousness, and volition. This is dangerous for many reasons, first and foremost, because according to 1 John 4:8, God’s very essence is love. To misunderstand love, then, is to misunderstand God.
Transforming Leadership (Evening Course)
LF511 Transforming Leadership (3 Credits)
9 January – 8 May 2020, Tuesdays, 7.00 pm-9.30 pm
Leadership is a passion and a calling. A transformational servant-leader is one who is committed to and capable of bringing about spiritual change in organisations and individuals. This course examines the underlying theology of Transforming Leadership, and the skillset such a leader should possess in today’s world.
Chan Chong Hiok, DD, is an experienced leader – from being Country Director of Cru Singapore (more than ten years) to National Leader for East Asia (18 years) to President of EAST since 2011. He has a DD in Transformational Leadership from the International Graduate School of Leadership (Philippines).
Jonathan Yao, EdD Studies, has been a staff of Cru Singapore for 31 years. He has served with high school, university, evangelism and mission mobilisation, church-planting, operations, theological and leadership development ministries in Singapore and East Asia.
Liong Kwok Wai, MDiv, joined Cru Singapore 20 years ago, has served as a leader on the campuses, and among church-planters and community leaders in Singapore and East Asia. He was also involved in training full-time Christian workers and leadership development.
Registration deadline is Thursday, 2 January 2020. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
Christian Marriage & Family Life In Asia (Day Course)
LF560 Christian Marriage & Family Life In Asia (3 credits) Thursdays, 1.45 pm-5.00 pm This course provides the biblical foundations and precepts relating to Christian marriage and family life. It also explores a survey of the existing major research findings of cultural values and challenges in marriage and family among representative Asian cultural groups, and what Christians can do in response.
Han Hye Jeong Justine, PhD, has has served in counselling ministries in Korea, Japan, and USA with Cru, and as a pastor of Women’s and Children’s Ministry for Korean-American churches. She was also a course tutor of Education and Pastoral Ministry in the Distance Education at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (USA).
Registration deadline is Thursday, 2 January 2020. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
Urban Ministry (Day Course)
IS561 Urban Ministry (3 credits)
Thursdays, 1.45 pm-5.00 pm
What is the biblical understanding of cities? Besides the phenomenal growth of cities through the centuries, and the issues in urbanization, there will be an analysis of urban people groups and their needs, and the development of principles and strategies to evangelize and minister to city-dwellers.
Song Tae Suk Raymond, PhD, served with Cru for 15 years in the USA and Japan (Tokyo and Osaka), and in pastoral ministry among Korean-American churches for 19 years. He and his wife, Justine Han, also served with the Distance Education program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (USA).
Registration deadline is Thursday, 2 January 2020. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
Spiritual Life and Transformation (Day Course)
TS532 Spiritual Life and Transformation (3 credits)
Tuesdays & Fridays, 11.00 am-12.30 pm
Many Christians are spiritually impoverished because they don’t know their identity and position in Christ. This course gives biblical and practical instructions about spiritual warfare, what the believer’s authority in Christ, and how we can help people resist demonic influence and find freedom in Christ.
Lewis Winkler, PhD, joined Cru in 1987 and has taught at EAST since 2006 after he graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary He travels regularly to teach and speak in formal and non-formal educational contexts.
Napitchaya Panum, ThM, comes with ministry experiences of working with college students in Thailand and the USA. She received her ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary (USA). She desires to use her training to equip students to actively engage in God’s Word with both heart and mind.
Registration deadline is Thursday, 2 January 2020. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
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