by Ruth Quek | Dec 19, 2025 | 2025, Death & Grief, God's Word, God’s Sovereignty, Obedience & Faithfulness
What would you do if God chose to take away one of your children? Most of us hope never to face such a question. For a long time, I never imagined I would have to answer it myself. Yet, through unexpected sorrow, I discovered profound truths about God’s...
by Dr David Teo | Dec 10, 2025 | 2025, Christian Identity, Dependence on God, Meaning & Purpose, Mental Illness, Young Adult Ministry
“Meaningless! Meaningless! … Everything is meaningless.” (Ecclesiastes 1:2 NIV) That ancient refrain regularly resounds in modern consulting rooms. A Story of Confronting Death Recently, I met a young lady who by all outward measures...
by Pauline Loh | Nov 20, 2025 | 2025, Christian Identity, Family, Work & Vocation
“A woman can have it all, one thing at a time.” I learnt this adage at one of the lowest points in my life. As a stay-at-home mum (SAHM) with a baby and a toddler, I had neither domestic help nor parents and in-laws available to lend a hand. I...
by David Wong | Oct 31, 2025 | 2025, Happiness, Preaching & Teaching
I was teaching recently at a seminar in Indonesia. As usual, I tried to break the ice by beginning with a humorous story. No one laughed. Except maybe my interpreter. Later, I asked why. “You are a pastor,” I was told, “Pastors are supposed to be...
by Bernice Lee | Oct 17, 2025 | 2025, Books, Church, Suffering
In preparation for our upcoming Sexual Assault Conference, I thought I would do well to revisit all that we had packed into the 344 pages of the book we published in 2023 on this very topic of Sexual Assault in the Church. I was humbled by the honesty of the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 3, 2025 | 2025, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
I have decided that I shall also take a sabbatical from this weekly e-column. I have been writing this column and its predecessors for more than 20 years now, not every week, but most weeks. It makes sense that a serious sabbatical should include my ceasing from this...
