Truth be told, this year I don’t feel altogether “christmassy”. The week preceding Christmas has been laden with happenings that brought much discouragement and disappointment. I...
The end of a year has a certain feeling to it, like the closing of a chapter. But in recent years, it’s begun to feel more like a countdown clock. How many more years, O Lord? I mean, does it...
From a young age, giving was always inculcated in our family. My dad would give my siblings and I a $1 coin each to put into the offering bag at Sunday school in Church. Every time we went to a...
Observing our surroundings in the final month of the year, it’s obviously Christmastime again. Feasting, festivities and fun abound. The annual Orchard Road Christmas light-up. Festive sales....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...