Posts by Abigail Soon

While we were at last weekend’s Wildfire Retreat, we learned about Father’s Heart as told in the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32 (you can see Andrew’s recap of it here). I really liked that even though I was a leader, I still learnt a lot from the sessions and youth. My big learning moment was when we focused on the older and younger brother. When the younger son returned home after spending all of his share of…

A few weeks ago, I was struggling to put together a songlist for a worship event I was doing. For those who don’t know, the songlist is the song and order of songs for a worship set. I was having a pretty bad week and was not feeling like I wanted to worship at all, which wasn’t helping with creating the songlist. At around the one-hour mark of wrangling (or strangling) my songlist, I felt the Lord say “[Bring a]…

Trivia Question: What do the movies K-Pop Demon Hunters and Thunderbolts* have in common? Answer: They’re both centered around the concept of shame. (I was also late to the trend and watched both of those movies for the first time last month.) In the movie Thunderbolts*, two of the characters, Yelena and Bob, end up in another dimension comprised out of “rooms” of their most shameful memories. With the help of their teammates, they were able to face their demons…

I’ve been thinking of Hagar lately. For those who don’t know, Hagar was Abraham’s wife Sarah’s slave, with whom Abraham had a son named Ishmael. Hagar and Sarah had a contentious relationship because of that, which led a pregnant Hagar to run away from Sarah. Then, the angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert, and the angel told Hagar to go back to Sarah and submit to her. The angel also declared that they would…

Lately, I’ve been listening to a song called “Every Morning” by the band Lost & Found. It’s about how God’s mercies are new every morning, and the chorus is based off Lamentations 3:22 – 23: “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” This is a very well known verse in the church that inspired numerous hymns and worship music. However, the context of this…

“Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. 27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” 28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” 29 “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw…

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” – John 20:29 NIV This is one of the famous “doubt verses” that we often throw at our questions. Some might even take this as a rebuke from Jesus towards Thomas for doubting. However, when we look at the passage as a whole, we can see that this not the case.  “Now Thomas (also known as Didymus),…

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. – Corinthians 13:11-12 (ESV) We often think of doubt as the enemy of faith. After all, we’re called to believe in…

I was recently updating my resume and was struck by now much I’ve changed and grown in the last few years. My resume was a snapshot and a great reminder of where I was 3-4 years ago while in the process of graduating highschool and being very uncertain about my direction in life. There are days where I don’t feel like I’m growing at all, and sometimes it helps me to take a look back in hindsight to remember how…

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…

On Sunday, we covered a really powerful lesson in Rapha, our Gr 4-6 class at Kingdom Kids, which was “God can do the impossible”. That’s a tall order. Impossible is impossible, right? One thing I loved about this lesson was that it wasn’t just theory. We (mostly Joe Chong) brought the kids into service to hear Amanda’s testimony about her journey to pregnancy. I shared about my experience getting into university and Joe shared about a seriously/terminally ill kid with…

Sometimes, life gets busy. We can get so caught up and overwhelmed with work, school, life, and even serving God that we lose sight of God. However, Jesus repeatedly invites us in our busyness to come to Him and rest. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke…