Articles by

Wong Siqi

Faith

The trouble with living as a new creation

I made this Hillsong song my prayer two years ago in a season of crushing and pressing.  In the crushing In the pressing You are making new wine In the soil I now surrender You are breaking new...

Culture

What caught our attention in 2019

In case you haven’t noticed, 2019 has been a pretty intense year. With all that has been happening, we get that it’s hard to keep up with piece after piece of ground-shaking news. So...

Christmas

Why I carol

I first joined a choir for carolling during Christmas four years ago. Initially, I just wanted to continue pursuing choral singing, but the appreciation from the audience made the effort worth it....

Real Life, Real People

At last I see the light

I was probably five or six when I first knew him. As a kid, you don’t exactly remember how people come into your life. One day they just do, and you simply become aware of their existence even if...

Disabilities

Lessons on love from a 26-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer

“Stop trying to ‘heal’ me.” Recently a friend shared with me this article by Damon Rose, a blind journalist who wrote about his experiences of being regularly approached by...

Sermons

“This is why Jesus told stories”: Assembly Asia’s Raphael Foo on the role of creative arts in evangelism

“The Gospel of Jesus Christ is going through a big change. Not in terms of the content, but the way it’s being presented.” Speaking on the second day of the X3 Creative conference, Raphael Foo,...

Sermons

Overcoming depression: Will I ever be okay?

In Singapore, 1 in 7 people have suffered from a mental disorder in their lifetime. This is an increase compared to the 1 in 8 ratio recorded by a landmark study six years earlier.  Most of these...

Disabilities

“My contentment is not in miracles”: Bethel’s Chris Gore on disabilities and disappointments

I have a severely disabled daughter. She’s physically and mentally disabled, and in a wheelchair. But how I deal with that disappointment is to make sure that I don’t get offended at God....

Family

Learning to forgive my absent father

As a worship leader in church, I often sang Good Good Father and led the congregation in singing those lyrics sincerely. But for a long time, I never really realised that I was the one who did not...