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...

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...