You & Your Family

What do you reach for?

  What do you reach out for when you feel trapped in a corner, besieged by life’s stressors? Where do you turn to and who do you go to? Some…

Unlinking teen self-worth from social media

“Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ ”   Hebrews…

What crosses are you bearing today?

  Our cross can be an illness in various forms: physical, emotional or mental. It can also be unpleasant office colleagues or neighbours, work or financial crisis.   This month’s…

To split or not to split?

  It’s not my role to judge the merits of their reasons but I do wonder if the vows “for better or for worse” are now understood as “for as…

No room in our hearts?

Picture by lightkeeper/Bigstock.com   A news report caught my attention the other day. It was about a poor elderly lady giving shelter to an equally elderly man who was homeless.…

What your teen needs to know about sex

  Teens often hear of the biblical ‘forbiddens’, but they rarely hear of the wondrous nature of human love in God’s divine plan.   Christian chastity – it’s really important,…

Leaving legacies

  Few of us would have missed the unfolding story of the elderly widow who reportedly left her fortune to the care of a man half her age, whom she…

Growing older together in peace and harmony

  The four members of the Tan* family sat there in grim tension. The air was thick with anger and sadness. Elder Mr Tan muttered about how shameful it was…

What are your teenagers ‘catching’?

    The family names are different but the situation sounds all too familiar. The adolescent first began to assert himself by pushing the boundaries of certain rules in the…
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