Mental Health

My messed-up life … now a message of life

I have always been a sensitive girl. Even in primary school, the smallest actions and words of my friends would deeply affect me. So I pushed them away before they could push me away. I often needed...

Faith

When churches unite: Got hope?

You might have heard these three words floating around Christian circles: “Celebration of Hope”. Maybe even recall briefly what it is: A big event next year. The Celebration of Hope is a...

Faith

I don’t even know anymore. Now what?

Once in a while, we reach a place where we don’t know what else to do. That was the place where Executive Pastor Aries Zulkarnain’s (City Harvest) sermon began. “When you reach the place of...

Faith

Tokens and relics: Lessons from my pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Spending my first few days around the Old City of Jerusalem while on exchange felt absolutely surreal. The very earth I walked on seemed to pulse with history, and the stones walls of a great many...

Outreach

What would you give to walk in power and love?

“Do you have any pain in your body?” One of the boys in the group of young people who had been drinking when we approached them pointed to his friend and said, “Can pray for broken heart or...

Faith

A garden enclosed

Who are you when no one’s looking? How are you like when you’re all alone?  Where would you go if no one was directing you? These are the questions that have been ringing in my head the past...

Faith

Purpose in pain

A death of a loved one, a broken relationship, a stolen phone … These are some examples of what many would term as “misfortune”. In today’s world, we are often optimistic to...

Faith

Why on Earth do boundaries matter?

In reading the Genesis creation narrative, we often tend to focus on the content of what was being created on each day, and end up glossing over the process of creation – paying even less attention...

Faith

How does discipleship work?

Disciple. There are multiple times in the Bible where this word is mentioned. But what is the essential meaning of the word “disciple”? Quite simply, a disciple is a disciplined...