Do Good

Lessons on love from giving out 6,000 cups of ice cream

It may seem frivolous when compared to care packages stocked with hand sanitisers, health supplements and surgical masks, but what if showing love to others during this COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t...

Culture

Prophetic art: 3 artists discuss what it means to deliver a message from the Father 

What is prophetic art and what makes it different from non-prophetic art? Daniel: To me, prophetic art conveys the heart of our Father in visual form. The visual imagery and accompanying messages are...

Sermons

Has the Great Commission become the “great commotion” in our churches?

A story was told of a group of executives who was being showed around a fancy oil refinery. The refinery was filled with some of the most state-of-the-art equipment that would transform crude oil...

Mental Health

When suffering doesn’t make sense

In July, I received some bad news from relatives in Taiwan about my cousin. Her cancer had returned and, this time, it was terminal. I was shocked to hear the news, since I had just recently seen her...

Outreach

3 Impossible stories of praying for someone we barely knew

  1. ONE MAN’S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE On my way home, as I walked past the basketball court under my block, I saw a lot of rubbish everywhere. I decided to clear it up. The...

Do Good

Humanitarian work is not charity but a responsibility: Refugee advocate Heidy Quah

“Coffee and Jesus. That’s like the perfect combination.” Other than Heidy Quah‘s two morning must-have energisers, a day in the 26-year-old’s life is usually very untypical. Heidy...

Mental Health

It’s okay to wrestle with pain

Several years ago, I found myself lying in pain on the hospital bed, recuperating from a slipped disc. My former cell group leader was about to pray for me – but he said something which I did not...

Real Life, Real People

Who’s behind those church bells? St Andrew’s Cathedral rings in a new era

Imagine this: You happen to be at City Hall at midday and you stop to admire the neoclassical architecture of an era bygone in between appointments. All of a sudden, you’re surprised by what...

Church Life

“Discipleship requires proximity and not just connectivity”: Pastor Andre Tan of The City SG

I am a big fan of the “return to the Acts church” movement. Namely, the notion that big gatherings are an incomplete expression and reflection of our faith. We need to go back to the church of...