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...

Music

3 things our COVID-19 songs have taught me

We first saw this in China, but it was heartening to witness songwriters and artistes banding together in Singapore when COVID-19 started hitting close to home. Listening to these new songs and...

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...

Devotionals

Yes, you can still claim Psalm 91 (Just not like the devil did!)

I love Psalm 91. I memorised it when I was a youth and quoted it often as a prayer then. In this psalm, the psalmist declares God to be his refuge and fortress, and he looks to God as: the one who...

COVID-19

“There were times when I felt like giving up, but COVID-19 taught me to press on,” says ER doctor

As a doctor in one of our local hospital’s emergency department, my greatest fear is being an asymptomatic carrier who will unknowingly spread the virus to my aged loved ones whose immunity...

COVID-19

“I am so amazed at what God has done among us”: Grace AOG’s pastor on surviving COVID-19

The past couple of weeks have been remarkable for my church, Grace Assembly of God. It all started when two members of our staff contracted COVID-19 and had to be warded in the National Centre for...

COVID-19

COVID-19 and the threshing floor: The Church in a moment of reckoning

“Do you see all these things?” he asked. A line that could describe any of us reacting to the events of the past few weeks. Just over a month ago, the first case of COVID-19 surfaced in...

COVID-19

If God is real, then how come Christians aren’t protected from COVID-19?

The other day, my son overheard a conversation in the barber shop that went like this: Customer: You heard about the spread of the virus happening in the churches? Barber: Oh yes! Customer: Did...

COVID-19

We feared our boss had COVID-19, but I had to act in faith and care for him

On February 3, 2020, my boss who was posted from China to Singapore for a work stint, began to display COVID-19 symptoms – chest pain, flu and cough. In fear of the coronavirus, none of my...