Real Life, Real People

A new heart for baby

“There’s something wrong with your baby’s heart.” In 2014, 22 weeks into my pregnancy, a routine ultrasound revealed severe anomalies in the baby’s heart. A rare congenital heart defect...

Church Life

When the well runs dry

A job hazard for a writer is the fact that I feel like I have to continually draw from the well of my soul. It makes sense as a writer – that’s where you’d think most of the great...

Finding Purpose

You have nothing to be ashamed of

I’m so afraid to write for your people, God. Me? I’m not qualified! I’ve been writing in my diary, journal and Tumblr for years. It’s always been just for me. For instance,...

Discipleship

Wait, He said

On a day I could never forget – Aug 22, 2014 – I confessed a sin to my youth pastor. It was a sin that had ravaged the insides of my heart and mind; it made my thought processes wicked; and it...

Apologetics

The God who thirsts

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the Scripture), “I thirst.” (John 19:28) How could Jesus – the source of abundant and unending living waters – thirst?...

Apologetics

The house I don’t dare step into

God sent His one and only son, Jesus, to die on the Cross for all our sins. None of us could ever do anything to deserve such a gesture from Him. But God demonstrated His love ever so extravagantly....

Worldview

In Eugene Peterson’s wavering view on marriage, a message to be learnt

“要不要买希望? Would you like to buy hope?” A friend of mine was asked years ago if he wanted to take part in the office Chinese New Year Toto Hongbao draw, the biggest pot to be...

Church Life

Where have all my church friends gone?

I’d woken up with a nagging image of my former cell group member in my head. I wondered why. I hadn’t heard from her or seen her around for quite a long time, come to think of it; I decided to...

Sermons

God, I’m really struggling. Why are you staying silent?

The walls of Jericho fell in seven days. Maybe you’ve been walking around walls for a lot longer. Maybe you’re wondering: I thought they’d have fallen by now. God doesn’t...