How do we live as a people redeemed for service? The Lord did not leave His disciples to guess. They were His apostles who would lay the foundation of His teaching for His Church in the generations to come. The Lord did not want them to lord over His sheep but to lovingly shepherd them.…

What does it mean to say God is our King?  How does He rule over the universe and my life? How may the truth of His Kingship bring comfort to my anxious thoughts? Consider how the psalmist marvels over the Kingship of God and says in Ps 139:16, “… all the days ordained for me…

At the heart of our discipleship is the need to develop Christlikeness. Jesus declared in Luke 6:40, “A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.” If Jesus is our Master and Teacher, in what ways are we becoming like Him? How do we even…

As Hebrew 10:24-25 calls us to encourage one another, it also gives the key to do so. Effective biblical encouragement hinges on two “Cs”. They are our commitment to one another through our habitual gatherings and our faith confession which provides the biblical content for our encouragements. Hebrews 10:25 suggests that central to our faith…

Have you ever asked what it means to be a disciple of Christ? Jesus tells us in Luke 6:40, “A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.” Discipleship is following Jesus to become like Him. But following Jesus is so hard, our best efforts…

If overcoming the power and paralysis of our sins requires an active trust in Christ’s authority to liberate us, what is the character of such faith? The examples of the leper, the paralytic and his friends, and Levi in Luke 5 teach us that faith earnestly seeks and decisively looks to the Lord Jesus. As…

The apostle Paul reminds us in Romans 1:16 that the Gospel is the power of God for salvation, for it reveals God’s righteousness. The amazing news is this: the righteousness of God, miraculously by God’s doing, becomes ours when we believe in Christ. How can this be? Zechariah’s song in Luke 1:68-69 reminds us that…

Registering a child for primary education has always been a highly important exercise in a Singaporean family. It’s deemed as the first decisive key to the child’s future success. From then, clearing examinations will remain a highly tense and competitive affair, from childhood to young adulthood, as one strives to enter the most prestigious schools,…

What will equip us to walk with one another in hard times? What can we cling to when life hits us with sudden tragedies? Psalm 40:1-2 says, “I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;…

We often struggle with broken relationships, broken health, and broken dreams. Some of these are just the result of living in a broken world. Others are the result of our foolishness and disobedience. We are called to persevere in the former and to repent of the sins that have caused the latter. And by the…