Discipleship

The secret to contentment

We know them all too well – the thoughts that run through our heads and never make it out of our mouths. She looks so attractive in that dress, I wish I looked like that. He doesn’t deserve...

Discipleship

Learning to love the God of Job

The book of Job is a perplexing one to many Christians. Apparently older than Genesis, this book appears out of nowhere, and is more or less self-contained in its own independent context. The Bible...

Surveys & Reports

Permission To Dream: A night of praise, prayer and reconciliation

More than 200 believers – students and parents – gathered at the Yale-NUS Performance Hall on the evening of Jan 10 for the NUS leg of Permission To Dream, a non-denominational worship event...

Relationships

The quest for true love

“I love the bak chor mee here!”  “I think I’m in love!” “God loves you!” Any of these phrases familiar to you? Thanks to pop culture, loose usage of the word “love” has cheapened...

Relationships

Teach me to love

What is love? Christians like to go Greek when trying to understand the things of God. So here we go. The Greeks, in their sophistication, would be appalled at the crude generalisations of love in...

Apologetics

Living with the gravity of doubt

Brought up in a church culture where everyone is taught to “just believe”, many Christians grow comfortable and complacent. We’ve got our own dialect of Christianese, hip pastors, and church...

Worldview

Stewardship of the environment: My worship

The first time I saw a humpback whale breach, tears flowed uncontrollably. It too, seemed to worship its Creator. It is not alone. “Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad, let the...

Surveys & Reports

Singapore university students in NUS, NTU, SMU to unite in worship and prayer

A cross-church, non-denominational worship event is set to be held across three universities in Singapore. Named “Permission To Dream” (PTD), the event will be held at the National University of...

Discipleship

The importance of being silent

“But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray” (Luke 5:16). Jesus did this often – even when “conventional” leadership wisdom would have held that He should keep going. He...