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As we enter into this new season of Increasing Our Faith, the Lord highlighted two things for us this year. One was what we don’t need and the other was what we do need this year. What we don’t need for this year is more information. Everything that we need to increase our faith this year will come from the Lord. Our job is not to gather more information but rather to step out in faith on what the Lord…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and hopeful 2026! Dorothy and I recently finished our One Year Chronological Bible reading plan. As we searched for a new plan, we came across “The Bible with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel, Classic Version 2026.” On the first day, Nicky Gumbel discusses the common New Year’s resolutions many of us make and often struggle to maintain. As children of our heavenly Father, we are reminded that through our Lord Jesus Christ,…

It’s getting to everyone’s favorite time of the year again, January; the month where we revisit everything that happened over the past year and set new goals while recovering from Christmas and New Year festivities. This is also the time that our church does a month-long fast to pray for guidance and direction for the next year. As I was thinking about this coming period of fasting, I realized that no matter what I end up choosing to fast, big…

December is always a good time to look back on how the past year has been for us. For those who journal (and I would highly recommend it!), it’s a good time to flip back and review the things that God had done through the highlights and lowlights of 2025. At LifeSpring, we use the last Sunday of the year to look back at some of the events of the year in a spirit of gratitude.  Our theme for 2025 was fruitfulness.…

This Christmas has been a strange one for me because throughout it, I’ve felt pretty far from God. In a time where the focus is on getting through exams, Christmas activities, and celebrating the birth of Jesus, I haven’t prioritized my relationship with God and have felt pretty distant from God. As I try to get back to spending more time with God, one of the Bible passages that’s been speaking to me is Exodus 33:12-17: Then Moses said to…

From our LifeSpring family to yours, we want to wish you a very merry Christmas! For those who were able to join us on Sunday, it was great to be together with family and friends to celebrate. Thank you to everyone for bringing food and helping to serve and clean up, and especially to our hospitality team for providing the main courses. Special shout out to our kids and shepherds for putting on an amazing presentation, and for all the…

Earlier last week, I felt prompted to pause and read my bible. My gut response was to reluctantly put down what I was holding and pick up my bible, which was close by. There’s a corner in my home with bean bags, pillows, and a blanket where I usually read my bible and do listening prayer, but today I avoided it because sometimes I’m there for an hour. I didn’t have an hour. Today was a flip-to-some-random-page-skim-it-and-pray-something-relevant sort of day.…

As I was reflecting on my Greece trip, one of the things that God brought to my mind was the importance of creating a safe space.  Near the end of the trip, as we were going through the airport, I was stopped a couple times before we had gotten to the security point where I was stopped again and asked, “Where are you from?” This was unusual as normally I just get stopped at security. To be honest with you,…

Last Sunday, we had a chance to hear from Pat Koh, who alongside Alvin served as pastors of LifeSpring for many fruitful years. One thing I always love about Pat’s preaching is the way she is able to bring together teaching from Scripture with her understanding of where LifeSpring is at in its journey as a church. The theme of Pat’s message was what it means for us to be “small but mighty in the Lord,” like Gideon in Judges 6-8.…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Two weeks ago, my devotion was based on Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV): The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. This week, the Lord brought me to Isaiah 30:18 (ESV): Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For…

Something I was reminded of was that, while we see the outside, God sees and cares about the inside. … The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7b An example of this comes from John 4, when Jesus meets a Samaritan woman by a well: Now he [Jesus] had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot…

Kingdom Family – Genuine Love for God and Genuine Care of Others As a leadership team, we have sought the Lord and felt God put on our heart a cry to “Increase Our Faith”. We believe that God has worked mightily in our midst and that it is time to increase our faith, take that which is so good, and seek God on where and how to give it to the world. In LifeSpring’s journey of maturity and fruitfulness, the…