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…
4 November 2022
Serving with Prudence
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not when their eye is on you and to win their favour, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for…
29 October 2022
How Deep(fake) is your Commitment?
Deepfake videos (or simply, deepfakes) are artificially created media posing as actual video recordings. A commonly seen example involves the face of a person in a video being swapped by…
21 October 2022
What does Compassion Look Like?
I read an article recently in which the author described how he was annoyed by a tissue paper seller while he was having a meal at a hawker centre and…
14 October 2022
Is He Satisfied?
In recent months, the news reported a number of unexpected deaths. In Singapore, two children under 12 passed away from complications due to Covid-19. Several cases of fires in HDB…