Work

What I learnt from 12 months of job searching

Getting a job shouldn’t be that tough. Besides, I’m a Singaporean and I’m going to graduate with a bachelor with an honours degree. That was my mentality towards my impending job search while...

Faith

Let Him love you

Let Me love you. Let Me love you. Tears streamed down my face in the dark of the auditorium.  The man who had just given me a razor-sharp prophetic word took his hand off my head and moved on to...

Culture

THIR.ST TALKS: Getting real with Hillsong Young & Free

Formed in 2012, Hillsong Young & Free is known for their contemporary electropop worship tunes that have been played in churches worldwide. Thir.st sat down with two of their members, Aodhán...

Health

My journey through psychotic depression

I was diagnosed with psychotic depression eight months after I became a Christian. As a young Christian then, it was a confusing and devastating season. The diagnosis came when I had just started...

Culture

The art of serving millennials in a Chinese church

“In our church, the older generation speaks Mandarin, and the newer generation thinks, speaks, and dreams in English. The issue of language comes up in all aspects of church life,” Thomas Liew,...

Culture

Is your soul prospering?

The soul has often been a subject of mystery. There are a variety of definitions of what the soul is. To simplify it, I define the soul as “all that is within” – your internal world. In...

Faith

The generous will prosper

If only I had more money, I’d be more willing to bless others. If only I were rich, I’d be more generous. That was what I used to think. But here’s a sobering realisation from the Bible: It...

Faith

What happened to the fire in my heart?

I remember the first time I felt like I was “on fire” for God. I can still recall the colourful lights that danced like birds across the stage. The atmosphere was solemn yet I felt a...

Culture

REVIVE: Nearly 40 years after the Clocktower Revival, a new generation arises

I studied in ACS (Barker Road). Unlike most people, I didn’t find God through Church. Instead, it was purely my time in Anglo Chinese School (ACS), through daily devotions and weekly chapels,...