Real Life, Real People

Be inspired by these ordinary people who have extraordinary stories. Wherever you are in life, every story in here is sure to give you hope!

Secondary

A good education isn’t about grades

Ahead of this month’s Thir.st Youth Night that’s all about education, we sat down with PETER TAN, a four-decade veteran educator who has served as a principal for 24 years across schools...

Mental Health

Struggling with body image, I couldn’t see how I was fearfully and wonderfully made

Primary School was where it all started. Wah, Abigail! You’re so fat leh! This one comment struck me in Primary 4, when a boy exclaimed it in front of the whole class. It stung.  That was when I...

Personalities

Yeo Jia Min: Talent is God’s gift to us, how we use it is our gift to Him

Going into this year’s SEA Games, Yeo Jia Min wrestled with mixed feelings; she was not going to take part in the individual event despite her really wanting to.  Midway through SEA Games, she,...

Personalities

“Whether God gives or takes, He is still sovereign and good”: SEA Games 2023 debutant Shawn Chia

I’ve always been active in sports since young. I enjoy playing a variety of sports but running is one of the sports that I enjoy the most. My running journey started in secondary school when I...

Real Life, Real People

Guna Raman: My heart was reawakened to the Gospel through the work of Tim Keller

We spoke to Pastor GUNA RAMAN, CEO of City to City Asia Pacific – sister organisation to the church planting organisation co-founded by #TimothyKeller. Pastor Guna looks back on his encounters with...

Personalities

Dead at 72: Timothy Keller

On Friday, 19 May 2023, Pastor Timothy Keller went to be with the Lord after a three-year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 72.  Based in New York, Pastor Keller was a spearhead for...

News

‘Lord, make this race your testimony’: SEA Games 2023 bronze medallist Goh Chui Ling

I am a national athlete for Singapore at the South-East Asian (SEA) Games, but more importantly, I bear witness to the epic love of the Lord my Father. The Lord’s love has reached the deepest,...

Real Life, Real People

#SpillTheTeh: Ex-offenders on life after prison

In the latest episode of #SpillTheTeh, we interviewed 3 ex-offenders to hear them share about their lives before and after prison.  Graceson Ang (38) Tian Boon Keng (35) Johnny Chin (49) How we got...

Finding Purpose

A reflection on vocation: What was I made and put here on earth to do?

About 15 years ago, I was considering a change in career for the first time. I had graduated over a year before from computer engineering and was working in IT, but I was not doing well. Having had a...