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COVID Pandemic and Implications on Ecclesiology

As COVID-19 rages on globally has crossed 5 million cases and 340,000 deaths to date, governments across the world are implementing vario...

Telephone Lament for Coronavirus

I just called, to say… your husband has been admitted to the intensive care unit. I could sense your shock even over the telephone. I rea...

Your Pastor May Be Lonelier Than You Think

The results are in. And overwhelming. Loneliness will kill you. “Loneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a d...

Hell, no; we won’t go

Good people do go to Hell. That's the scary part. It doesn't seem right...

Why Look When You Can Eat?

A Shout Out to food. Consider the following and if you do so, literally, it will become “Food for Thought”. Best two words about food? “E...

Hope Becoming Reality... After the First Easter

As a teenager, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War. Having survi...

Singapore's Bicentennial... Celebration of Hope 2019

For some time, God has laid it on the hearts of several pastors that He desires revival for His church in Singapore. COH is hence more th...

Confessions of a Secondary School Fatty ...Thinking beyond aesthetics

I was the stereotypical secondary school “fat girl”. Although not grossly overweight, I was “big enough” and weight problems dogged me fo...

Trads with Creds - “We’ve always done it this way.”

Telegrams are still widely used for special occasions in Japan. The venerable typewriter is still being manufactured for prison inmates i...

Know Thy Selfie

Pride and Vanity did him in. From the pinnacle to the abyss. The story of Lucifer’s fall is revealed in two key Old Testament chapters (E...

The Impact of Violence… and How Children Cope

A safe and happy childhood is what many of us take for granted. But for some children, their own safety is at risk even at home, where th...

No Longer hush hush… be bold enough to talk openly

Many Christians feel shy to talk about issues relating to sexuality. Why is that a problem, and how can we overcome that? Society is not ...

Have We Really Missed The Bus?

Sex. There, we’ve gone and printed it. And we don’t mean “Gender”, as it so indelicately solicits in the immigration forms. Yes, there ar...

What's Wrong With Sex Before Marriage?

How on earth can you answer this question? It is the 21st century after all; surely God doesn't hate you enough to make you say something...

The Desires of Our Hearts

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (Ps 37:4). From my teenage years until marriage, I lived with...

When Two (Families) Become One

Challenges Of Parenting A Blended Family. We had both lost our first spouses to cancer. She had two boys from her first marriage. I had ...

Why does love have to hurt?

The presence of hurt “‘Til death us do part” is meant to be a promise of a life-long commitment, not a death sentence. Yet every year, te...

Peace. Be Still

Simple. The first one to raise his voice has lost the argument. The first one to raise his hand to strike, has lost control. When a man i...

Blemishes on an otherwise pretty face?

Would you accept a church with no choirs? Would you join a church without a children’s ministry? Would you sign up with a church that doe...

Happy Labour Day... An invitation to rest

At the end of November I was in the delivery room for the birth of Ivy Gao. Her mom was an immigrant from China; her husband was not craz...

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