Finding Purpose

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...

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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

I didn’t dare to let myself feel beautiful

All women desire to feel beautiful. Every day, we see hundreds of advertisements for skincare, make-up, clothes and slimming treatments. Even the Bible celebrates a woman’s beauty in passages such...

Personalities

歌手Olivia Ong王俪婷的身份危机:我尽力了,但我还是被称为一张白纸

我七岁那年,有一次在电视上看到歌手Mariah Carey在三万多人面前现场演唱。表演结束后,大家都为她热烈地鼓掌。...

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Will you be a ‘yes’ man for the right reasons?

As life became exponentially more exhausting over the last 4 years, I went on a quest to streamline my calendar. In 2014, I was working five-and-a-half days a week (sometimes through the weekend at...

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3 truths to cling to when you’re hit with challenges

Whenever we’re hit with challenges in life, we often expect our situation to improve and get better. I know that I often carry this hope into my prayers to God. I expect Him to intervene and...

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When you’re waiting for a job

I’ve recently graduated from university. And I’m still just an intern. While everyone else has settled into their new full-time jobs, my bitter self is working through the days with...

Work

Feeling sian about work?

We spend more time at work – whether paid or unpaid – than at any other waking activity. If God cares about our lives, He must care about our work. No matter what your profession or occupation,...

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Isaac Ong: I had a dream, then God gave me a voice

I find it very hard to answer when people ask me, “What’s your job?” I’ve been part of the chaplaincy team at St. Hilda’s Secondary School, part of the FOPx network, part of singing...