Finding Purpose

Why I walked away from my dream career

My friend Desiree (not her real name) is a been-there, done-that kind of person. Fearless. Confident. A go-getter. She loves to tell me stories about her life and I love hearing them; it’s like...

Finding Purpose

If you cannot feed a hundred people, just feed one

I saw myself on stage, standing in front of hundreds, maybe thousands of people. I never told anyone, but I wanted to do big things for Jesus and I thought I knew what that looked like. I could see...

Discipleship

All who are thirsty

Everyone thirsts. It is that deep, raw, sometimes torturous feeling of being parched; a pain so central to the human experience that no man is excused from it. It has become so commonplace that I’m...

Workplace

Should I quit my job?

Yes you should! Right now! Obviously, you wouldn’t accept that as an answer. Not from me anyway – someone who hardly knows you. I struggled with that question more than a year ago. And I quit...

Money Matters

Is it okay to want to be rich?

I used to be obsessed with money. It was something my family lacked, so wealth represented power, status and a worry-free life. My family suffered in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis....

Finding Purpose

How do I find my calling in life?

The Bible suggests that God has a special plan for you.* Not merely your choice of work or course of study, but why you exist. It’s a lofty ideal – the elegant union of power, significance,...

Money Matters

Confessions of a pok kai student: How I learnt to stop fighting the tithe

Tithe, said my cell leader. My reaction: Why? I’m just a student – a poor one, to boot. To my mind, tithing only starts when I first draw an income. To give as a student was not only something I...

Discipleship

The problem with fairy tale endings

I had never heard of “Eddie the Eagle”, never knew an Olympian with this nickname existed. But when I saw the poster of the film starring Hugh Jackman — who is an absolute class act — I knew...

Missions

Help for the harvesters: The ‘elbows’ in support of missionaries

Think of a missionary and your vision will probably be along the lines of: Someone who leaves behind his job, family and comfortable lifestyle to travel around to world, usually to some remote...