Friendship

Church Life

3 ways cell leaders can inflict hurt

After becoming a cell leader, I’ve come to understand just how tough it is. It requires you to be a friend, a mentor, a shepherd, a listener, an advisor… all while balancing administrative...

Faith

Why should I love others when it’s risky and difficult?

Any investor knows that the greater the risk he is willing to take, the greater the potential returns — but also financial loss as well. But when we apply this concept to leadership and choose to...

Relationships

What I learnt about hospitality from my travels

When I was in Jordan for the weekend, I learnt about hospitality. Did you know that Bedouin tribes in the desert freely offer travellers a three-day stay? I, too, had a taste of Arabic hospitality...

Relationships

Forgiveness is a continuous choice

For most of my life, I struggled greatly with forgiving and loving my parents. I couldn’t reconcile how as Christians, things were constantly stormy on the home front. Confused and disappointed by...

Relationships

My heart broke when my mentees left church

Both my mentees left the church within the same month: November 2018. I had been mentoring them for close to a year, respectively. They were also the first and only two mentees that I ever had....

Relationships

You don’t have to wear a mask in life

In Chinese culture, we are often caught up with the need to “save face”. That’s an idea that comes from the Mandarin phrase mianzi (面子), which refers to one’s pride and...

Outreach

How is God moving in your friendships?

“Wow, I can relate to what Jesus said about being born again spiritually, and not physically. This makes a lot of sense!” When my friend K* blurted that sentence out in the middle of January,...

Life & Death

Praying for the dying

It was 2017, the day after Christmas. The Thir.st team had gathered at my place for lunch, and we were in the midst of playing a game when my phone suddenly rang. It was my friend Aaron’s...

National Service

With my rifle and my buddy and my … NS ministry

6 July 2018 was the day of my enlistment. As a cell group leader prior to enlistment, I had made plans to stay back in the tertiary ministry: I wanted to disciple the younger guys there to be an...