Discipleship

Apologetics

Does God really have a say in the choices I make?

When I was young, I remember always having to askĀ my parents for permission to doĀ anything at all. Can IĀ go out with my friends? Can IĀ attend this or that schoolĀ programme? Somehow thisĀ habit...

Discipleship

Tools for your Quiet Time

I get it. Sometimes, you read the Bible, andĀ charactersĀ like Enoch and Moses appearĀ unrealistic ā€“ itĀ feels like theyā€™ve set a standard for spirituality I canā€™t reach, and itā€™s super...

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

Iā€™m a runner. I run from problems. Iā€™ve come to realise that I instinctively put up my walls as defences. I distance myself and turn away from hard times. Itā€™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 Iā€™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 ā€œJust Do Itā€ advertisement, the constant theme of ā€œstop 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 Iā€™d gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...

Discipleship

What does it really mean to be #blessed?

ā€œI am so blessed to get these pair of new kicks for my birthday!ā€ ā€œI received the promotion that Iā€™ve been waiting for … I feel so blessed!ā€ ā€œI got an ā€˜Aā€™ on the test even...

Discipleship

Feeling the burn?

How am I going to survive this?, IĀ found myself thinking one recent afternoon. It wasnā€™t just the exceptional heat from the morning sun making its way down my face and soaking uncomfortably...