Missions

Gateway to the nations: Is the Singaporean Church mission-minded?

Ask the average Christian in our local churches: they would be excited about being the “Antioch of Asia”, but would possibly be quite clueless as to what it means. A gateway to the nations? A...

Discipleship

The importance of waiting

“The reason I stopped attending prayer meetings is that I don’t really feel a connection with God and people. I don’t see any fruit from all the praying,” a friend told me on the way home...

Discipleship

4 signs that God isn’t your first love

Though I’ve been a Christian for many years, I’ve still struggled with being self-centred and proud. At times, even more so than I realise. Some days, this truth grips my heart with guilt...

Family

I waited 11 years to be water baptised

I wasn’t born into a Christian family. I’ve never had my parents lead me in worship, or devotions or Bible reading. And I’ve never had the luxury of going to church with my family. When I...

Outreach

Evangelism is dying in the US. What about here in Singapore?

Forty-seven per cent of Christian millennials in the US (born 1984-1998) think that it’s wrong to evangelise, according to recent research commissioned by Alpha USA. Based on a report released by...

Discipleship

Our identity and inheritance as worshippers

“For the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.” (John 4:23) It’s funny that the...

Sermons

There is a remedy for that guilt you’re feeling

My wife and I have a friend who has lost an arm due to polio. She described for us a phenomenon called “phantom pain” which occurs in many amputees. Even though the arm or leg is already...

Discipleship

What I got wrong about grace

Some time in my early 20s, I sat across the table from my mentor and pleaded with her to explain how grace worked. Life wasn’t quite going the way I wanted and I’d subconsciously been trying to...

Sermons

Lessons from a young leader at my first Pastors’ Prayer Summit

Were you at Day of His Power or PraySingapore in 2018? The two prayer meetings organised by unity movement LoveSingapore drew a combined crowd of almost 40,000 people. Some 9,000 gathered at the...