I’ll be away from Thursday March 12 – Sunday March 15 on retreat. Zibin and my parents will be attending the Conversion Experience Retreat with me. Please pray for us, and for all our fellow retreat participants, that we will encounter the Risen Christ and have a true conversion of heart at this retreat. Please […]
Category: Faith & Spiritual
Grace
Grace does not make us impervious to suffering. Nor does it give us plain sailing in life. Any gospel that attempts to preach grace as such is severely shortchanging its audience. The beauty of grace is precisely that it transforms the experience of suffering such that we come to experience and understand God’s love for […]
My prayer warriors
Every Friday evening, a wonderful thing happens in my home. A small group of people comes together to break bread, share the Word of God, pray for one another and have fellowship. My SCC (Small Christian Community) group is a prayer powerhouse. Our meetings recharge our spiritual batteries in such powerful ways that no matter […]
All for You
Sweet Lord, In the past week I’ve begun to realize the foretaste of what a life lived in mission for You would entail. And it is nothing short of radical. And I never saw myself as radical – for I used to toe the line. Always, and carefully. I hated to give offense, and that […]
The stars, a rainbow, and rain…
Recently many of the people I know are going through really tough times. Family members seriously ill or injured, on the brink of losing jobs, going through personal crises etc. But I think it’s wonderful how God shows His love for my friends through nature, and how they somehow feel this love even if they […]
Anything can happen
I haven’t shared the story of how I ended up being a full-time staff in my church, and with the main portfolio of being the ‘work plan secretary’ (the SAF term) of implementing the Roadmap vision across the various departments and communities in the parish. About 10 days ago, my mother saw an advert in […]
Now this is living
I remember sometime last year feeling envious of Ivy because she was so busy. Well, not because she was just busy – but because I felt she was busy with so much purpose. She is of course not the only one I know who is busy with work – but she stood out in that […]
Surpassing expectations
Today I had a lunch appointment with Assoc. Prof Ng Pak Tee (NIE), another one of my thesis committee members. The purpose was to tell him that I have decided to take a leave of absence from my PhD studies. I was not apprehensive at all as I knew that as a Christian himself, he […]
The Paul Team
Last night was the first general meeting of the Paul the Musical committee that I attended. It went on from 8p.m. to practically 11p.m. and when I left, the creative team and publicity team were still there. But I had a blast! I haven’t realized how much I missed working in a team. And such […]
The need to withdraw
In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely place and prayed there. – Mk. 1:35 Understanding the need for solitude and prayer is important if we are to live centered lives. In order to find ourselves, we will almost always experience the need to […]
Journey of the Heart 