Articles by

Wong Siqi

Faith

Chosen to light up the world

One of my favourite times of the day is in the early morning. I love watching the first rays of light pierce the darkened sky, how dawn breaks through with unstoppable light. I love life because I...

Faith

Thoughts from the birthday boy: I too was born on Christmas Day

Each year on 25th December, I spend some time reflecting on what my life has amounted to so far – because it’s my birthday (too). But at the annual realisation that I’ve still neither...

Faith

The day Heaven was traded for earth

“Christmas is about exchanges – of counting costs and sacrifices – yet seeing them as of worth.” I penned down these thoughts in my bunk on what would be my first in-camp training...

Faith

How one innocent baby boy brought hope to the world

So it’s Christmas this month. It’s debatable if Christmas is truly meaningful. It has heathen origins, and December 25 isn’t actually Jesus’s birthday. Likewise the oldest...

Christmas

What Jesus doesn’t have yet

God gave the first Christmas gift to us in the form of His only begotten Son Jesus more than 2,000 years ago. Then there were the Three Wise Men, the first humans to present gifts at Christmastime....

Relationships

That forever kind of love

What is love? To be loved but not feel loved. Is that still love? Most of us love only in our own definition of love, the way we personally receive and understand love to look like. We speak...

Faith

A new heart for the hurting

The other day, my colleague randomly showed me a picture of a man who’d just had his heart replaced. To celebrate the success of the operation, he took a picture while holding his original...

Great gifts need no price tags

Christmas is coming and we all know what that means: Extensive and expensive shopping lists. Somehow, giving has become synonymous with spending money, and gifts are almost becoming more of an...

Faith

Who made you the judge?

In every court case, there’s always a hearing. The judge, before pronouncing the defender innocent or guilty – and meting out due punishment for the guilty – has the obligation to hear both...