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,...

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...

Faith

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....

Faith

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...