Finding Purpose

Finding Purpose

To all young teachers: Remember why we do this

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese I remember this boy in one of the classes I was teaching, I read suspicion and uneasiness in his eyes. I was giving a...

Music

The sound of surrender: Clarence Chan on building music platform Bandwagon

Looking back at his eight-year journey of transforming an idea in his head to one of Southeast Asia’s leading music media companies, the founder of Bandwagon revealed that this wasn’t...

Finding Purpose

What does God really think about your CV?

CV stands for the Latin words curriculum vitae, which translate to “the course of your life”. Yet the only thing it really shows is a list of your credentials, certifications and professional...

Finding Purpose

After a bad breakup with touch rugby, I challenged God to show me that He was real

I am a second-generation Christian who grew up in church, attending children camps, youth camps and youth meetings. But as I grew older, my spiritual walk with God could be best described as...

Devotionals

Wrestling with your identity? He calls you by name

Early in my career as a teacher, God had whispered into my ears a simple and powerful – yet easily neglected – strategy to encourage my students when marking their assignments.  He told me to...

Finding Purpose

Why are we so caught up with the calling of God?

How do I know the call of God in my life? How do I know if God has called me into full-time ministry? People often ask me such questions about the calling of God, and I’ve come to realise that...

Finding Purpose

I lost my job

It was merely two days after Christmas when my boss broke the news to me: The company had not been doing well financially. It was forced to downsize, and they had to let me go. As I was only five...

Do Good

From poor child to millionaire: A young entrepreneur asks “why am I rich?”

“I used to think of myself as poor,” said Dylan Wilk, co-founder of Human Nature, a social enterprise that he runs with his wife and her sister in the Philippines. As he shared about his life as...

Missions

How I left my job to teach English in Southern Thailand

“Go, get out,” my Thai language teacher ordered, with indifference in her voice. Humiliated, I was told to leave her language class because I could not pronounce the tonal, tongue-twisting Thai...