28 January 2023
Coffee with Jesus
I had a cup of kopi with Jesus at the airport last week. Neither of us was rushing to fly off anywhere; we simply had an unhurried conversation seated at…
20 January 2023
Discipleship
A few decades ago, God put me in a Youth Fellowship where I could grow with other youths in my discipleship journey. I remembered having to meet our Youth Advisor…
14 January 2023
Disciple-Making as Imitation
What comes to your mind when you think of discipleship and disciple-making? In last week’s sermon, it was made clear that disciple-making is not meant to be seen as a…
6 January 2023
An Examined Life
“What will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account? (Job 31:14) The Book of Job is not just about suffering. We can also…
16 December 2022
The Teacher Has Come and Calls for You
Background: Lazarus has died. Mary and Martha were grieving for their dead brother. Mary particularly refused to be comforted. She was perplexed as to why Jesus had not come earlier.…
9 December 2022
The Humanity of Jesus
It is the third Advent Sunday. I have been reflecting on the humanity of Jesus. The world celebrates Christmas, the birth of Jesus, with food, festive gifts and all kinds…
3 December 2022
The Grain, the Speck and the Log
I do not know how it got in as my spectacles are quite big, but something landed on my left eye. It was not painful but I could feel something…
25 November 2022
He is with us on the hardest path
The idea of a farm stay holiday has long appealed to me – that is until the day I visited a farm myself. As an urbanite unaccustomed to farm life,…
18 November 2022
Learning and Loving Beyond Borders
Isaiah 55:8-9 tells us that God’s thoughts and ways are not those of ours; they are infinitely higher as the heavens are so over the earth. We keep learning this…
11 November 2022
Grace for every day, by the day
This year marks my 30th year of living with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. Last week, when I went for my regular diabetes appointment, I reminded my diabetes specialist of this…