How-tos & Handles

Struggling to get to grips with a particular issue in life? Peep the tips within โ€” these practical guides are meant to help you to make sense and make moves.

Relationships

A young church leader’s journey through sexuality and lust

Aloysius* serves as a leader in a large church where he has mentored hundreds of youths and young adults for over more than a decade. But beyond the public persona, few others know about his troubled...

Relationships

Thank God I struggle with same-sex attraction

Yes, you read that right. It sounded ridiculous โ€“ even sadistic โ€“ to me as well, when my friend said a similar prayer years ago. But today, these seven precious words have taken on a new meaning...

Culture

Make time for important things

I’ll be the first to admit that my schedule is often a wreck. With a calendar stacked with appointment after appointment, I’m constantly out of time and in a rush. And in an average...

Faith

In sickness and in health

I fell pretty sick on Labour Day. I still remember it was a Tuesday morning, and I was furiously taking notes at Momentum 2018. I had already been feeling a little unwell โ€“ dry throat โ€“ the night...

Culture

We cannot but speak

In this era of fake news, hate speech, speech-chilling, echo chambers, incitement passing as reportage, name-calling,ย mud slinging and straw men attacks passing as academic debate, and people...

Faith

The secret to praying is practice

Overnight prayer came naturally to me even as a new believer. I loved to tuck myself into bed at night and talk to God โ€“ the prayer would only be concluded the next morning with an โ€œamen!”...

I'm a New Christian

Yes, Jesus loves you

WHY WE NEED JESUS We have a high view of the Most High God. We believe He is absolutely pure and perfect โ€“ holy. But we learn in the Bible that from the time of Adam and Eve’s original sin,...

How-tos & Handles

Discouragement: The devil’s most effective weapon

I once heard a story of an old devil who was planning to retire. He put up for auction all the weapons which he had accumulated over the years. They ranged from envy to laziness to gossip. One of...

Health

What I learnt from my friends with special needs

All names in this article have been changed to protect the identities of those in the special needs ministry. I’ve been helping out in a special needs ministry for about 2.5 years now, a...