Discipleship

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”...

Discipleship

Getting to the meat of my temptations

The season of Lent has ended for the year – a time when many Christians fast in a posture of repentance and reflection. Sometime last year, I began to placed myself on a pedestal, inscribed with...

Discipleship

Has God blue-ticked you?

Ever heard of this extreme sport called Banzai Skydiving? It’s like skydiving, only without the parachute. Born and bred in the boundary-pushing capital of the world, Japan, Banzai Skydiving –...