Culture

And Singapore’s favourite verse of 2017 is …

It’s official. Singapore’s favourite verse of 2017 is … Jeremiah 29:11. YouVersion released their year-end review recently, which said we may be living amid the most Bible-engaged...

Relationships

The God of irreconcilable differences

There is no way we can save this. No hope that we’ll ever work out our problems. We’re too different. Too far gone. We just have to accept it as irretrievable. Unfixable. One too many...

Christmas

Stressed about planning for Christmas?

I was recently trying to write something about Christmas so that people who aren’t Christians would be able to understand what it’s truly all about. But it only made me realise that...

Faith

A new heart for the hurting

The other day, my colleague randomly showed me a picture of a man who’d just had his heart replaced. To celebrate the success of the operation, he took a picture while holding his original...

Great gifts need no price tags

Christmas is coming and we all know what that means: Extensive and expensive shopping lists. Somehow, giving has become synonymous with spending money, and gifts are almost becoming more of an...

Health

Calm my raging heart

In April this year, I found out that I had a tumour growing from my nerve cells on the right side of my spine. Fear was a very real thing in my heart that caused me to question what would happen to...

Christmas

You never know who you’re bringing to Christmas service this year

Ever so often we look back on our decisions – good ones, bad ones, and those that fall undecidedly in between. Whenever Christmas time draws near, I am reminded of a decision that my friend made...

Faith

A shot of wonder for the weary

Last Sunday morning, I settled into my usual seat in church – fourth row from the front – strongly feeling the lack of an additional hour of sleep, all for this predictable 90 minutes of service....

Faith

Who made you the judge?

In every court case, there’s always a hearing. The judge, before pronouncing the defender innocent or guilty – and meting out due punishment for the guilty – has the obligation to hear both...