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!

Real Life, Real People

I wanted to tell my dad how much I hated him

I’m going to tell you a story about a 11-year-old boy who woke up one day and just wanted to die. Have you ever felt lonely? That’s how I felt growing up. I was brought up on a farm in the state...

Workplace

6 lessons I learnt as a career consultant

As a full-time career consultant, I come across people from all walks of life each day. From helping homemakers return to the working field, to sharing in the troubles and disappointments of the...

Illness

Surviving traumatic brain injury: From “Why me?” to “Why not me?”

Jeremiah 29:11 says: “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” Most Christians have...

Mental Health

I wanted to end it all: Ah Boys to Men actor Charlie Goh

I was down with dengue fever in 2016. It was a painful time as I was hospitalised for 7 days.  I was suffering, so I didn’t care and just took it out on everybody else. I can’t remember exactly...

Dating

The greater purpose of our relationships

In 2017, I shared about my struggles in making sense of singlehood and the importance of being made whole while you’re still single. Almost more than 1.5 years later, I found my Boaz. My...

Life & Death

Saving the safest place in the world

I had been asking God what was next. After years in the marketing industry, enjoying my job as I supported my husband in his full-time ministry as a pastor, I had known for some time that I needed to...

Finding Purpose

Has your life been shaped by a higher standard?

“The clay does not know what it’s meant to be until it emerges from the kiln.” This is what my husband and I often tell our pottery students when we introduce them to the art of ceramics....

Mental Health

Anxious and depressed, I overdosed on drugs and fell unconscious for 2 days

I know the exact moment I was marked by Christ. It happened three years ago, when I was serving in disaster relief in Japan. God spoke 1 Corinthians 9:22 over my life – I am to be “all things...

Family

Asking Dad for forgiveness

“Why should I ask for his forgiveness? He should be the one asking me for forgiveness!” I first met Pastor Eddie Yeo of Acts Community Church at the Pastors’ Prayer Summit in January. We...