Our readers are in for a special treat this New Year!

The Harvest Times team knows you've been tremendously blessed by the amazing teaching articles written by Rev. Dr. Kong Hee, founder of City Harvest Church (Singapore). So in order to sate your appetite for more spiritual content from the man of God, we are bringing you TWO features from Rev. Kong in every future issue.

This first print of 2008, Ps. Kong shares on two very distinct topics - one that relates to our public persona, and another that speaks to our personal life.

In Getting Out of the Bunker, he uses the account of the apostle Paul's time at Mars Hill to relate how we can effectively be in the world, but yet not of the world. The polar opposites for the standards we live by as believers are aptly named Alienation and Accommodation, but as with so many other principles from the Word of God, balance is the key! Through Paul's exemplary disposition and wisdom, Ps. Kong teaches how we can embrace a life of "holy worldliness" that is holy unto the Lord while remaining relevant and integrated with the rest of society as we know it today.

In Choosing the Right Parter for Life, Ps. Kong spills the