Illness

What I learnt through my struggle with chronic sickness

Let’s face this head on: I’m sick. Not long ago, I was diagnosed with a string of chronic gastro-intestinal ailments. Subsequently, I was diagnosed with chronic allergic rhinitis. Most...

Disabilities

Lessons on love from a 26-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer

“Stop trying to ‘heal’ me.” Recently a friend shared with me this article by Damon Rose, a blind journalist who wrote about his experiences of being regularly approached by...

Post-secondary

Pregnant at 18, I had an abortion before my A-levels

I was from an all-girls school. And like any teenage girl undergoing puberty, I was desperate for love and attention from boys. There was a boys’ school just across the road from mine, and many...

Discipleship

Supernatural encounters: The battle for my soul

It’s strange, but whenever I had supernatural encounters, they would come at a pivotal point in my journey with God. I will never forget the night I accepted Christ on 23 December 2008. I woke...

Personalities

Enjoy the Process: Krysta Joy on finding purpose, good tunes and redemption

Winner of 2017’s edition of the Noise Music Mentorship Programme, singer-songwriter Krysta Joy released her debut album, Enjoy the Process, in August 2019. We have a chat with the Burning Hearts...

Friendship

He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

Bruce and I have been close friends for over a decade. My journey with Bruce’s struggle with depression and anxiety started around 2010. We had just completed our National Service and came to a...

Sermons

Overcoming depression: Will I ever be okay?

In Singapore, 1 in 7 people have suffered from a mental disorder in their lifetime. This is an increase compared to the 1 in 8 ratio recorded by a landmark study six years earlier.  Most of these...

Disabilities

“My contentment is not in miracles”: Bethel’s Chris Gore on disabilities and disappointments

I have a severely disabled daughter. She’s physically and mentally disabled, and in a wheelchair. But how I deal with that disappointment is to make sure that I don’t get offended at God....

Illness

At 25, I became a caregiver and sole breadwinner

Nothing in life ever prepared me for what happened. I’m 25, the only child in the family and not married. Now I’m the sole breadwinner of the family with a disabled father. And it has not been...