I grew up in a village in Lim Chu Kang in the early 1960s when piped water and electricity were non-existent in my house. In my early childhood years, I had only come into contact with rain water, water from the river or water from the well. I had no knowledge of running tap water until I was much older. When I had to take a bath, I would have to walk over to my uncle’s house a distance away to use the well at his property. The bathroom was a zinc-shed built around a well.  W

During a sermon, a brother once said, “If we do not enjoy fellowship now, we will not enjoy it in heaven.”. This statement captures an important truth: as Christians, we look forward to the joy of heaven - a place of perfect peace, worship, and fellowship. But Scripture gently reminds us that our experience of heaven is shaped by the lives we live today. If we struggle to enjoy the fellowship of believers now, we may not be preparing our hearts for the eternal fellowship that

Saying good-bye to those we love is always difficult. Saying goodbye for the final time is often hard to bear. From the top row of this theater, a spectator could have easily seen the ancient harbor of Miletus and the place where the elders of Ephesus walked with the apostle Paul to a ship headed for Judea (Acts 20:38). The ancient harbor of Miletus, once a thriving maritime center, no longer exists. Silt from the Meander River closed its access to the Aegean Sea, and the cit

“I am just an ordinary person.” This is probably a phrase that feels increasingly true as we grow older. As we mature and see more of the world, we become aware of how small we are in the grand scheme of things—just one person among millions, with seemingly ordinary abilities and an ordinary life. At times we may even wonder -  Do the things we do really matter?   Does my presence make any difference? Yet the Bible reminds us that even in our smallness, God sees us and values

Back in 2023, a student was caught in possession of an e-cigarette. She defended that most of her friends smoked it and she followed. She knew it was wrong as the vaporizer contained nicotine. On the other hand, she felt no harm in puffing it. I noticed there was a rising number of confiscated vaporizers in class. Some school staff recommended putting up signages along toilets and bus stops around school premises. At that time the authorities adopted a wait-and-see approach a