Articles by

Christina Wong

Mental Health

Wading through grief and the broken heart

It was around 4pm on a Monday. My friend sent me a text that a mutual acquaintance of ours had just passed on. From suicide, to be exact. Is it even possible to grieve over someone you barely knew?...

Music

“My Soul Surrenders”: Sidney Mohede’s story behind the song

When I first wrote this song with our friends in JPCC Worship, it was for our previous album More Than Enough. The chorus was pretty much set and we loved that chorus. But for some reason, during...

Do Good

The Church is God’s finest answer to the problem of homelessness

“The Father really wants His house to be full, you are not here by accident,” Abraham Yeo declared at The Father’s Heart for the Homeless, a Christian symposium on brokenness and...

Faith

Eugene Peterson, author of The Message Bible, has passed away

Eugene Peterson, best known as the author of The Message Bible, passed away last night (October 22, 2018) at the age of 85. The longtime pastor and theologian entered hospice care just last week for...

Do Good

“The test of a nation is how we treat the vulnerable and less fortunate”: LoveSingapore pastors

“We are one people, one Singapore. Even as we seek God’s welfare, we must serve one another.” Pastor Eugene Seow, Executive Director of TOUCH International, opened his segment at...

Culture

PraySingapore: The day the church filled the National Stadium with prayer

PraySingapore saw tens of thousands of Christians throng Singapore’s National Stadium on October 7, 2018 for an afternoon of worship and intercession. The national prayer meeting, which cut...

National Service

With my rifle and my buddy and my … NS ministry

6 July 2018 was the day of my enlistment. As a cell group leader prior to enlistment, I had made plans to stay back in the tertiary ministry: I wanted to disciple the younger guys there to be an...

Relationships

When you’re single but not by choice

“How are you, being single?” My friend was telling me about a friend who was approaching her thirties soon and struggling with singleness. We agreed that age might have played a large role in...

Mental Health

How my view on mental illness changed after I saved someone from committing suicide

I once thought that those who attempted to commit suicide were weak-willed and selfish individuals who had complete disregard of the love and concern of their loved ones and friends… But my...