Mental Health

What do I say to someone with suicidal thoughts?

When coming into contact with someone at risk, the last thing you’d want is for that person to feel like we’re pushing them away. But what if, unknowingly, our words or actions end up making a...

Workplace

How I started a workplace prayer group

“I want you to start a prayer group,” the Lord spoke to me. I had just started working at a new workplace. My heart raced at the thought, “This is impossible! I don’t know how. How was I to...

Discipleship

3 things I learnt about God’s provision

Whenever my friends hear that I’m still an intern despite graduating from university more than a year ago, they usually remark: “Can survive meh?” I have yet to draw a full-time...

Sermons

What mental illness is not: The raw, disturbing stories from the ones who’ve suffered

“I want to start with an unapology,” Pastor Adrian Ow of Yio Chu Kang Chapel (YCKC) told the 300-plus strong audience at The Church and Mental Wholeness Conference last Saturday. “If...

Family

Do you need hope for your family?

I have been a Christian for 11 years, and was the first in my family to come to Christ. By God’s grace, my mum and sister came to know the Lord a year after me. About a year ago, my brother also...

Mental Health

Pastors are people too

Yet another pastor has left us by suicide. Yet another wife has lost the love of her life; another two boys, their loving and dedicated father. News reports of young pastors committing suicide seems...

University

My humbling hall life: Seeing God’s goodness in a ministry that I almost didn’t start

On three separate occasions, I was approached by three different people with the challenge to serve in a hostel ministry that I had never heard of. I declined all three times, reasoning that it was a...

Finding Purpose

What does God really think about your CV?

CV stands for the Latin words curriculum vitae, which translate to “the course of your life”. Yet the only thing it really shows is a list of your credentials, certifications and professional...

How-tos & Handles

5 things to consider when you’re at the crossroads

Are you at the crossroads? Does it feel like your entire future depends on the decisions you are about to make? Perhaps it’s what school to attend, what subjects to study. Maybe it’s what job to...