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The prisoner was me: Forgiving my dad after years of bitterness

In life, people will hurt us and we will hurt people. No one is exempt from having to forgive and release forgiveness. But sometimes the people who are closest to us are the hardest to forgive. For...

Faith

Francis Chan: Church, let’s stop fighting

Can the Church please unite? But… unite for what? There’s just something about the concept of a Church in unity, isn’t it? And perhaps rightly so. After all, in his final week on...

Discipleship

No, repentance is not just being sorry

Nobody likes the feeling of knowing you’re in the wrong. It first hits you with a gnawing feeling inside your heart, and before you know it, it’s the works: Shame, humiliation, regret and...

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...

Dating

Finding hope after a bad breakup

I first started dating him in March 2010. We met during some classes we shared in college. He grew up in a Christian family, so I thought that since we shared the same faith, we would surely be able...

Mental Health

I will not be shaken

What do you do when the devil makes multiple attempts to overthrow you? How do you respond when he tries to steal and kill and destroy (John 10:10) the very things you hold dear? Such an incident...

Music

Light Has Won: Hinghwa Methodist Church has a song to sing

It all began when Sam, one of the youths from my church, approached me and asked to write a song together. Sam had suffered a bad stomach infection a few years ago and it gave him frequent vomiting...

Faith

Our Top 10 stories by contributors in 2018

The stories you read on Thir.st are a unique blend of voices from across our little island of Singapore – and at times, around the region. Many of these testimonies are written by contributors, and...

Faith

In a coma at 9: Now Emmanuel fights to live the fullest life

“We just wanted him to be healthy and enjoy his childhood,” Evang, Emmanuel’s mum, shares with me. “Just like normal kids.” Emmanuel’s life has been anything but normal. The...