Faith

How to really read your Bible

One of the challenges that new believers first encounter in reading the Bible is reading it in totality. We tend to have the most trouble with the Old Testament (OT), where cultural and...

Faith

Tongues-tied: The gift I never knew how to ask for

Have you ever heard someone speak in tongues? What are tongues anyway? Before we get any further along in my story with tongues, I’m going to run through a quick crash course so we’re all...

Faith

Are you serving for affirmation?

I suspect that many of you reading this article are serving in churches, or are at least in some position of responsibility or authority. You might be a ministry head, cell leader, mentor. Or you...

Missions

Exploring the greater world of good

Love travelling and mission work – and wish you could do both at the same time? We met up with Actxplorer, a Singaporean social enterprise that brings travellers and locals from developing nations...

Faith

How do we see people the way God does?

The challenge – to build a cardboard version of one of Kuala Lumpur’s iconic structures – came with the usual church camp caveats. In this case, several members of the team had to sacrifice one...

Faith

If the Lord is God, follow Him

Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. (1 Kings...

Faith

Will you be the answer in humanity’s most desperate hour?

Darkness has always been very busy, aggressively moving forward. In the time of Genesis, darkness was already doing that. Darkness had already moved so far ahead in the time of Noah that the whole...

Outreach

What is being missional?

I was at a shopping mall recently and was surprised by the huge number of people standing around, some holding two phones at the same time, charging them with portable chargers. Then I realised that...

Culture

What if Christianity was a lie?

Many years back, a friend told me casually, “God lives by faith.” At the time, I thought that made sense. I thought it was rather clever. It did have a ring of truth to it. And it seemed...