Discipleship

Devotionals

Where is the burning bush in your life?

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the back or west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb or Sinai, the mountain of God. (Exodus...

Relationships

Why I run from the people who love me

I’m a runner. I run from problems. I’ve come to realise that I instinctively put up my walls as defences. I distance myself and turn away from hard times. It’s so easy to run when things are...

How-tos & Handles

Can you bloom in adversity?

I used to watch Mulan every night after dinner. It was 1999, a year after Disney released the animated version of the story I’d grown up with in Chinese classes. Arguably the most well-known female...

Culture

Prone to wander(lust)?

Some years back, I watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. While many had said that it felt like a feature-length “Just Do It” advertisement, the constant theme of “stop dreaming, start...

Mental Health

It is okay to be not okay

Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when I’d gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...

Discipleship

What does it really mean to be #blessed?

“I am so blessed to get these pair of new kicks for my birthday!” “I received the promotion that I’ve been waiting for … I feel so blessed!” “I got an ‘A’ on the test even...

Discipleship

Feeling the burn?

How am I going to survive this?, I found myself thinking one recent afternoon. It wasn’t just the exceptional heat from the morning sun making its way down my face and soaking uncomfortably...

Discipleship

Say it with me: I am wonderfully made

I’m not built like your typical Singaporean guy. I’m ridiculously tall for an Asian – at 1.84m I’m in the 96th percentile of Singaporean males. My shoulders are curiously broad,...

Devotionals

I AM good enough

“I AM he who exists.” God is self-existent; He does not rely on any other being for His existence. He was not created and is the Creator of all things that are living. So the name “I AM”...