How-tos & Handles

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

Church Life

Creatives, this is how to serve in church and not burn out

Creatives tend to get a bad rep for being difficult, emotional, unpredictable and, on occasion, a nightmare of pride and/or insecurity. All of which I have been accused of (not unrightfully), so that...

Mental Health

Wading through grief and the broken heart

It was around 4pm on a Monday. My friend sent me a text that a mutual acquaintance of ours had just passed on. From suicide, to be exact. Is it even possible to grieve over someone you barely knew?...

How-tos & Handles

God of my waiting

I am not the sort of girl who cries easily. But I was suddenly and briefly overcome with emotion one afternoon, when listening to the song “Take Courage” by Kristene DiMarco. The lines...

Culture

Flamed for my faith: 7 points on persecution

Recently, two of my friends have come under a lot of fire for expressing their views on faith. They’re both younger than me — barely 25. The younger one of them took a lot of flak for...

Culture

Porn is killing me

I am locked in a battle for sexual purity and I am dying in it. Time and time again, I watch pornography. Time and time again, I diminish a female – reducing her to just her body and nothing more....

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How do I discern God’s will for my life?

One of the biggest struggles that the average God-fearing Christian faces is trying to discern the will of God in a certain situation.  Everywhere I go, I find Christians crying out, “If only I...

How-tos & Handles

A month without porn

I woke up at 3:45AM. I had a morning appointment that day, so I was eager to go back to sleep. I tossed and turned, did a couple of pushups, read Leviticus, watched YouTube … But still sleep...

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 – even sadistic – 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...