Discipleship

Silent killers in spiritual community

There is a little plant by the name of “morning glory” that has cute flowers and heart-shaped leaves. It sounds pretty, looks innocent enough and sure appears that way – but is actually...

Christmas

Christmas markets you can visit in Singapore this season

This December, local churches are lighting up our city with Christmas markets that express our hope for the season.  Whether it’s a snow-foam spectacle in Queenstown, a Christmas Gift Market at...

Discipleship

3 ways to practise patience in ministry

We wouldn’t be going out on a limb to say that patience is not something that’s coded into human nature.  Seriously, it’s so much easier to just do what feels natural (or even...

Discipleship

If you want to win in life, you’ll need self-discipline

Let’s zoom in on four verses in 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. For context, these verses come from a part of the book where Paul is writing to the Corinthian Church about rights: the right to eat meat...

Finding Purpose

Called to care: My unconventional path into geriatric nursing

Before joining St Luke’s ElderCare (SLEC) as a nurse, I had taken a gap year after graduating from university in 2023. My educational path was a little longer than most — I started in junior...

Discipleship

Christian creative, don’t be afraid

Having worked as a creative for years, there honestly have been many days when creating something feels like trying to squeeze blood from a stone. There can be many reasons for this inertia, such as:...

Church Life

Using AI in ministry? Exercise discernment

With AI, we now have this unprecedented tool that scours human knowledge and discourse to instantly produce a dozen answers or ideas. A single prompt ploughs through a week’s work. What would have...

Illness

Finding hope amidst my journey with scoliosis

Back in 2019 when I was in Sec 2, I received a bad health report: my scoliosis, a condition where the spine curves abnormally, had worsened. While I had been flagged for scoliosis in 2017 during an...

Videos

I forgave the people who murdered my wife

Back in 2013, my wife Wendy and myself were already in full-time ministry. But prior to that, because we were looking at different countries in which we could do missions, we came to Cambodia and...