Discipleship

Mental Health

What I learnt about God from my depression

A big part of what makes suffering from depression so difficult is how isolating it feels. We crave to be fully understood in the depths of our emotions, and yet the pain we feel is so personal that...

Discipleship

The joy of growing up

I turned 21 this year, and my mum continues to jokingly remind me to act my age. To be honest, I am probably a completely different breed from most of my peers. I present to you a non-exhaustive list...

Finding Purpose

Why must I keep waiting?

Between the years 2013 and 2016, after my resignation as a school teacher, I entered a season of the wilderness when I was recovering from a burnout. Going from the fast pace of the teaching service...

Family

How the family altar changed our home

Recently I listened to a sermon titled “The Key in the Passover“. My pastor didn’t reveal what the key was for more than half the sermon, detailing instead God’s instructions in...

Discipleship

When I was fearful of change

Growing up on a steady diet of Hollywood coming-of-age stories whose protagonists are sometimes accused of changing for the worse, the elevation of constancy over change had been inculcated in me...

Worldview

How can a Christian navigate our hypersexualised culture?

We don’t ask a fish how wet they are because they don’t even know that they are wet. This is what John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, often reminds us about...

Movies & TV

5 things I learnt from following football

There’s just something about the beautiful game, isn’t there? For 90 minutes every week, fans get to live vicariously through 11 men lucky enough to perform on one of life’s biggest, most...

Discipleship

The verse that taught me humility

So many times I feel pride coursing through my veins. This wasn’t the running theme of my life – not that I knew of – until 2 months ago when the circuit breaker bombshell fell on us all and I...

Discipleship

One love, six stages

Recently, I read Every Young Woman’s Battle in preparation for my cell group discussion. And yes, though the chapters on human intimacy certainly piqued my curiosity (“When the Time is Right...