Discipleship

Don’t numb the pain

Sigmund Freud once proposed that the mind seeks to avoid pain and findĀ pleasure. In this life, we will get our hearts get broken. People might say mean things to us. Something or someone beloved...

Mental Health

It is okay to be not okay

Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when Iā€™d gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...

Discipleship

What does it really mean to be #blessed?

ā€œI am so blessed to get these pair of new kicks for my birthday!ā€ ā€œI received the promotion that Iā€™ve been waiting for … I feel so blessed!ā€ ā€œI got an ā€˜Aā€™ on the test even...

Discipleship

Feeling the burn?

How am I going to survive this?, IĀ found myself thinking one recent afternoon. It wasnā€™t just the exceptional heat from the morning sun making its way down my face and soaking uncomfortably...

Discipleship

Say it with me: I am wonderfully made

I’m not built like your typical Singaporean guy. Iā€™m ridiculously tall for an AsianĀ ā€“ at 1.84m I’m in the 96thĀ percentile of Singaporean males. My shoulders are curiouslyĀ broad,...

Devotionals

I AM good enough

ā€œI AM he who exists.ā€ God is self-existent; He does not rely on any other being for His existence. He was not created and is the Creator of all things that are living. So the name ā€œI AMā€...

Mental Health

Why are you crying?

Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white,Ā seated where Jesusā€™ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot....

Discipleship

Getting to the meat of my temptations

The season of Lent has ended for the year ā€“ a time when many Christians fast in a posture of repentance and reflection. Sometime last year,Ā I began to placed myself on a pedestal, inscribed with...

Apologetics

The worst of times – and the best of times

Weā€™re living in the worst of times, and also the best of times. The question has been asked many a time: “Why is there evil in the world?” Ever since the day man rebelled against God,...