Faith

"First Choice": A song of life decisions and destiny

After completing my Bar Course to become a lawyer, I went through a time of great change. I walked away from the church I grew up in, to consider what my faith meant to me, as well as whether the...

Faith

Don’t retreat after a retreat

June is the month of holidays, rest and recuperation but for the typical Singaporean Christian, it’s also the month of the highly-anticipated Church retreats! As my camp was overseas, we...

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What role does the Church play in their churchgoers’ love lives?

One of the chapters in a book I was reading recently, The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller, talked about singleness and marriage. One of the passages he mentioned briefly was 1 Corinthians 7....

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The manna test

I’m always fascinated by the supernatural provisions of God, especially when Israel were in the wilderness. Feeding the entire nation of Israel of at least 2 million people, was equivalent to...

Culture

My stay in the worst room in the world

I recently read that someone chose to stay at the worst room in Singapore. Only to moan about it and press the eject button before the night was over. Some news commentators wonder if it was a fair...

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Wounded by the Church: A letter to fellow Special Needs Christians

This is a response piece to The Christian stereotype: Why you should also love those who aren’t like you. I’m sure most of us know the weight of the word when someone is branded an...

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Is it wrong to build walls around yourself?

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” (Mahoko Yoshimoto) At the heart of that sentiment is perhaps this question: Will anyone...

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How should we respond to persecution?

“Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.” (Acts 8:4) In this part of the narrative, Stephen had just been stoned to death for preaching about Jesus. That triggered a...

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Are you there God? It’s me again

Anyone who has ever spent time praying probably has had this question cross their minds: “Does God even hear my prayers?” And it gets amplified when we feel like nothing is happening in...