Music

Jesus I come, I surrender

If you’re calling me, I will answer If you’re bidding me to come, I will come If you’re leading me into deeper waters May I not refuse When I song write, I record all my voice notes...

Discipleship

An inconvenient death: What does “dying to self” mean?

There is a certain kind of absurdism we bring to arguments with our parents. Here’s an example: I remember fighting with them over my curfew, insisting that I should be allowed to stay out past...

Culture

How to get the rest you need

I am an ISFJ, which means I’m often a ball of contradictions. Though introverted, I can be outgoing and I have good social skills. That explains my constant packed schedule – the last time I...

Mental Health

Being bullied ruined my life, but I found a way out

My family is a very traditional Chinese family with staunch religious beliefs. So though I’ve wanted to come to church since I was 5 years old, I was not allowed to do so. When I was in primary...

Culture

I was obsessed with being self-sufficient

I don’t know if I was born the independent type, but somewhere along the way I actively sought to develop the ability to take care of myself. Having always dreamt of living alone, I looked to move...

University

Don’t waste your time in university

For many of us, university is the first real chance to decide how we want to live our lives. As young adults, we are suddenly presented with opportunities to make decisions by ourselves. What modules...

Music

This is our God, the Servant King

Traded heaven for humanity Our God eternal who became a man Who is this God who’d exchange His life? For the beggar and the dead I was sitting at my piano one day and playing around with some...

Discipleship

Why am I even praying?

It wasn’t until recently when I started to examine the things I do as a Christian and question why I actually do them. One of the things that came to my attention was prayer. I was reminded of the...

Discipleship

To live is to die

It’s been a whirlwind month since switching jobs. I’ve worked past midnight on consecutive days, with to-do’s bleeding perniciously into the weekends. In the throes of this madness, I finally...