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A quick search on the internet will show that most dictionaries define “concert” as a public musical performance. According to this definition, worship can be considered as a type of a...
When we think about prayer, our expectations often revolve around its tangible impact. Prayer is a powerful weapon that affects our circumstances and the people around us. There is a reality in the...
Joshua served as Moses’ assistant for 40 years (Numbers 11:28). 40 years. One of Israel’s greatest military leaders, conqueror of the Amalekites – an assistant! Most people wouldn’t...
After 578 days of this site going live, and 1.58 million pageviews from 483,000 unique visitors, this is the 1,000th story to be published on Thir.st. This old man had a dream, and somehow, a bunch...
Last month, I boarded a bus not knowing where exactly it was going to take me, or what to expect over the next 3 days. I had signed up for a church camp in China almost 4,000km away from home. I...
The team had all of two weeks to prepare. St Andrew’s Cathedral, right smack in the heart of the city, had suddenly opened up to host this year’s FOPx Worship Night, which took place last...
I watched her grow up. Our families were in the same church. She was a rebel at heart; strong-headed and fiercely loyal – always in some sort of trouble I had to get her out of through the years. I...
He was the best I ever had. Everything I ever wanted. I’d met him in freshman year at college; he was a senior leader, I was pageant queen. The boys had always loved me, but he wasn’t just...
We both loved art. It was our way of turning our backs on a world that never accepted us. Experimentation was in my blood as an artist, and so was rebellion. And growing up in an all-girls school,...