Relationships

Growing up in a lower-income family, I hated my life

My parents separated when I was 10. I was too young to understand anything about separation, but one thing I knew for sure was that our house now felt emptier. After the separation, my mother moved...

Relationships

“Missing out on mum”: Learning to love my mentally-ill mum

I missed out on a lot of things as a girl because of my mum’s mental illness. I didn’t have someone to talk to about boys, about my period, about skincare. And I never had someone to nag me about...

Culture

Ditch the fear of man and preach the Gospel: Ben Fitzgerald at Kingdom Invasion 2018

For Singapore to live up to the call to be the Antioch of Asia, for souls to be saved – we need to deal with the fear of man, said Ben Fitzgerald. “The fear of man is the Number 1 thing that...

Culture

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE: The untold story of the song that inspired millions

If you’ve been going to church for some time, you probably have sung MercyMe’s hit Gospel song, “I Can Only Imagine”, in a worship service. But you probably have never heard...

Faith

I’m a new Christian and loving it

Before I came to know Christ, I went to temples with my family as I was not born into a Christian family. At that point of time, I didn’t know which god I was praying to because there was so...

Relationships

I hope you’ll find love

One would assume only singles struggle with the issue of loneliness while married couples live happily ever after. But that’s not true. Loneliness can permeate even in relationships. I remember...

Faith

Don’t wait until the deathbed

I wrote about my grandma’s health scare last year. Although the doctors found nothing wrong with her body, the scare took a toll on her mental health. My grandma became depressed, and her body...

Relationships

Weddings are nice, but it’s the marriage that counts

“…I take you to be my spouse, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do...

Culture

Kill them with kindness

I got super angry a few days ago. I was sick and tired of being patient and nice to difficult people in my life. I’d had enough! Browsing through Spotify in the faint hope I would find a song...