Mental Health

Do you need some compassion?

“Self, I forgive you.” These were precious words I learnt from a sweet lady who told me about her own practice of self-forgiveness. Every so often we come into need for compassion on ourselves....

Discipleship

“I promised God I would stop”: My struggle with sexual addiction

I discovered pornography when I was really young and because I didn’t know better then, it quickly developed into an almost daily habit of pornography and masturbation. It even came to a point...

Devotionals

Setting the slave free

Slavery is an awkward topic to broach in any Christian setting. To our modern minds, the only kind of slavery the Bible should talk about is the “spiritual” kind. Who today would want to...

Mental Health

Have you been crying?

I must confess something. I used to think that Jesus was very strange when I read that He wept upon seeing family and friends weeping over Lazarus’ death. You see, Jesus knew He was going to...

Devotionals

4 signs that God first loved you

Having recently read an article titled 4 signs that God isn’t your first love, it made me consider how God first loved us. God first loved us. He loved us first (1 John 4:19) and died for us...

Life & Death

Making decisions with death in mind

It felt poignantly surreal as I literally observed the full circle of life within the span of a day. I attended a baby’s 1-year-old birthday party in the morning, followed by the wake of a granny...

Studies & NS

My season as a student is ending. What have I done?

It’s really startling to me that after 13 years, I’m finally at the tail end of my life as a student.  After studying for my PSLE, O-Levels and polytechnic diploma, I now wait to receive...

#PublishPeace

How can we better share the reason for our hope?

I recently attended a youth focus group where the consensus was that event-based evangelism was reaching a point of saturation. In this article, I’ll define event-based evangelism as having a...

News

Some dramas have no happy ending

It has been the Korean drama nobody could have seen coming. Ever since its early beginnings at the turn of the year, when a 28-year-old man submitted a request for help from the presidential Blue...