Worldview

This is my Father’s house, how dare I turn my back on it?

My dad is an environmentalist and I grew up slightly averse to all this creation care jargon. After all, this was “the work that took my father away”. As a follow-up to the previous article I...

Discipleship

Seeing hope in the hopelessness

At the start of the year, I was privileged to be given a book from a friend titled Whose Child Is This?  The book tells the story of Pastor Bill Wilson, founder of Metro World Child, the largest...

Do Good

Who is my neighbour?

Working in the social service sector, you come across pretty heart-wrenching stuff regularly. But some things are sobering. I overheard one such conversation a couple years back. My colleagues were...

Surveys & Reports

Can a stranger save someone from suicide? Conversations on strengthening communities

“I want to offer an insider’s view of what it is like to be suicidal. To try to help you understand what it is like and how does a person get to that place.” Speaking at the Samaritans of...

Discipleship

5 reasons why the fire has stopped growing inside of you

After recently attending our church’s annual conference, a new fire for God was reignited within me. However, from my previous experiences of going for conferences, I knew this feeling was only...

Discipleship

What are you hiding from God?

It’s strange looking back and realising just how much my Christian life was driven by my struggle with pornography. I can’t remember the number of times I would masturbate on a Saturday night,...

Outreach

Sharing Christ in a winsome way: The 3 Ps of evangelism

At some point in our Christian walk, we may find a considerable disparity between our conviction of evangelism’s importance and whether those convictions actually turn into action. I often...

Mental Health

How can the Church journey alongside people struggling with mental illness?

“I remember that evening when my depression actually emerged in a very conscious way,” said Dr Tan Soo Inn, chairman of Graceworks, at The Church and Mental Wholeness Conference last week. He...

Discipleship

When you don’t hear from God

There wasn’t a clear, booming, “yes, go ahead with this plan” or “yes, this is the will I have for you” from God when I packed my bags and said goodbye to family and friends for a job...