Culture

THIR.ST TALKS: Getting real with Hillsong Young & Free

Formed in 2012, Hillsong Young & Free is known for their contemporary electropop worship tunes that have been played in churches worldwide. Thir.st sat down with two of their members, Aodhán...

Culture

Chris Pratt: “Nobody is perfect”

Have you seen the Chris Pratt speech that went viral recently? The 39-year-old American actor is the winner of this year’s MTV Generation Award, which acknowledges significant contributions to film...

Culture

The art of serving millennials in a Chinese church

“In our church, the older generation speaks Mandarin, and the newer generation thinks, speaks, and dreams in English. The issue of language comes up in all aspects of church life,” Thomas Liew,...

Culture

Is your soul prospering?

The soul has often been a subject of mystery. There are a variety of definitions of what the soul is. To simplify it, I define the soul as “all that is within” – your internal world. In...

Faith

The generous will prosper

If only I had more money, I’d be more willing to bless others. If only I were rich, I’d be more generous. That was what I used to think. But here’s a sobering realisation from the Bible: It...

Culture

REVIVE: Nearly 40 years after the Clocktower Revival, a new generation arises

I studied in ACS (Barker Road). Unlike most people, I didn’t find God through Church. Instead, it was purely my time in Anglo Chinese School (ACS), through daily devotions and weekly chapels,...

Culture

My stay in the worst room in the world

I recently read that someone chose to stay at the worst room in Singapore. Only to moan about it and press the eject button before the night was over. Some news commentators wonder if it was a fair...

Culture

A lifetime of wonder

I first knew of Aarksara when she was a guest worship leader in my home church a few years back. Her energy was not only infectious, you could feel a deep sense of joy and triumph as she sang unto...

Relationships

Does my dad deserve a Father’s Day?

When I was growing up, Father’s Day wasn’t even invented yet – not to me anyway. And I probably would have resisted the idea of it had I known about it then. Not much to celebrate, I...