Life & Death

Sermons

No more guilt and shame: Day of His Power 2019

Repentance, reconciliation and restoration. This year’s Day of His Power saw about 5,000 people fill up the seats in Suntec Convention Centre on August 8, 2019 for a night of worship and...

Mental Health

In the wake of my mother’s passing, I hid my grief away

“Your mother was highly successful. A scholar. By the time she was your age, she was giving tuition to multiple children, holding a part-time job and supporting her sister’s university...

News

Where is God in the Sri Lanka attacks?

I first received the news of the Sri Lanka bombings after I had gone home from Easter service. The news gripped my heart. It was too many deaths, too many terrorist attacks in too short a time –...

Life & Death

Making decisions with death in mind

It felt poignantly surreal as I literally observed the full circle of life within the span of a day. I attended a baby’s 1-year-old birthday party in the morning, followed by the wake of a granny...

Life & Death

Saving the safest place in the world

I had been asking God what was next. After years in the marketing industry, enjoying my job as I supported my husband in his full-time ministry as a pastor, I had known for some time that I needed to...

Life & Death

Unwed, pregnant and headed for Harvard – I thought the choice was clear

He was my best friend. We had known each other for five years. At that time, both of us were the most senior Ph.D students in the laboratory. We started a secret relationship without the knowledge of...

Life & Death

Praying for the dying

It was 2017, the day after Christmas. The Thir.st team had gathered at my place for lunch, and we were in the midst of playing a game when my phone suddenly rang. It was my friend Aaron’s...

Life & Death

If God is good, why did my grandma have to die?

When the life of someone close to you flickers away, all sorts of questions will course through your mind. God, if You are good – why didn’t you save her? Couldn’t you have let her live...

Life & Death

My child, a gift from God, stillborn without a skull

My husband, Bryan, and I had been waiting for God to bless us with a second child. When we finally tested positive on a pregnancy kit, we were ecstatic. Through the first 12 weeks, everything...