All living things depend on water for existence. God has created the world with a perfect balance of all essential elements for life. However, due to our callous attitude, greed, and selfishness, we have destroyed this balance. We have become careless consumers rather than good stewards of God’s gifts to us. Nevertheless, we must ask … Read more
A collaborative website with creation care sermon suggestions adapted for all seasons in the liturgical year. Please visit http://sustainable-preaching.org/ Credit for individual sermons should be given to the authors noted Publisher: Sustainable Preaching Project Group Illustration: Bible Outdoors by Ben White on Unsplash
Recently, a news headline in a national daily warned its readers to “Leave Delhi” in the wake of the alarming air pollution levels in the city. Delhi has notoriously become the most polluted city in the world, but phenomenon is not limited to Delhi alone as air pollution is a countrywide problem. Yet little is … Read more
Samuel Y. Chiu (A Rocha International / A Rocha Canada) giving the keynote speech on Creation Care at the Justice Conference Asia 2018 in Hong Kong. Watch it here or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1JsuiWoCM Date: 19 October 2018 Author: Samuel Y. Chiu (趙汝圖) Publisher: Justice Conference Location: Justice Conference Asia 2018, Hong Kong Length: 30 minutes … Read more
Samuel Chiu speaking at a Special Sunday School Seminar on Creation Care on ‘Care for the Creation: More than stewardship, it’s also a gospel issue and Christian mission’
A sermon about food waste for EFICOR’s 2013 Eco-Sunday. Bible passages: Genesis 45, Proverbs 23, Proverbs 28, Ezekiel 34 Publisher: EFICOR Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Illustration: Avoidable food waste, by Love Food Hate Waste NZ (CC BY-ND)
Let us pause for a moment before we form any further thoughts in our mind about the appropriateness of this focus on a Sunday morning. Is this something that the Pastor should discuss about during worship or I, as a Christian, need to be concerned about? Are we going the liberal way when the environment … Read more
In order to clarify the close relationship between caring for the created world and the Christian mission, one must start with the most fundamental element of Christianity: the gospel. Article published in CCCOWE’s magazine Chinese Churches Today (今日華人教會) in June 2020. Author: Samuel Y. Chiu (趙汝圖) Publisher: Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (CCCOWE) Year … Read more
The Lausanne Global Classroom connects emerging evangelical leaders and the global church to key issues in global mission today. Each Classroom episode consists of a series of short videos and is supplemented by a Study Guide, which contains prompts for reflection, discussion and prayer.
