Category Archives: Devotional Practices

Survive NS as a Christian: 7 Big Tips

I finally reached my Operationally Ready Date (ORD), which marks the end of my full-time National Service.

Before I enlisted, I heard all sorts of stories about National Service, and I would google for tips on how to get through various aspects of it. However, I could not find a lot of meaningful content on keeping the faith while being in there. Since every Singaporean (and second-generation Permanent Resident) male has to go through this, I’m sure many others will have the same questions as I did. Therefore, I thought it would be good for me to write a guide of sorts on how to get through NS as a Christian.

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The Heavenly Ladder of Devotion by Caspar Calvör

Much discussion of devotional practices in Lutheran circles is usually in the context of whether a practice from another Christian tradition, such as Lectio Divina, or the Ignatian Examen would be permissible within our own. It is such a shame that because we Lutherans do have a rich devotional heritage of our own, and it is rarely talked about due to the inaccessibility of a lot of these works.  

When it comes to spiritual exercises within our tradition, we usually think of Luther’s traditional directive, Oratio, Meditatio, and Tentatio. I was reading G.H. Gerberding’s The Lutheran Pastor, and he cited Loehe citing an interesting way this is applied in the devotional use of God’s Word.

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