Christmas

The other side of Christmas

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...

#PublishPeace

If it’s the end of the world as we know it, I don’t feel fine

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...

Faith

Freely my father gave, even after he lost his job

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...

What happens if I’m just not feeling Christmas?

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....

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...