Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Real Life, Real People

“I was left with nothing”: How a drug abuser left the lows and highs of a rollercoaster life

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS ARTICLE MENTIONS SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE Shortly after his first taste of alcohol at 11, Thomas Koh began using drugs, all the while chasing money and power as antidotes to the...

Workplace

3 things God taught me about my motives at work

It’s been a year and a half since my last burnout. I remember the tightness in my chest, the shortness of breath and lots of tears from feeling so overwhelmed by work. After leaving that job for a...

Family

Waiting for my child: A journey through infertility

A seemingly natural, straightforward, joyful experience that so many others easily celebrate and at times casually joke about, became a clinical, drawn-out and painful journey for us. Needles, vials...

Discipleship

Rethinking what worship is in this pandemic

With church life disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a profound way, some of us miss going to church. We miss the pews, the ambience and the acoustics of a church sanctuary. While churches have...

Church Life

How healthy is your cell group?

This may go by different names in different churches, like action group, care group, life group, etc. But, essentially, cell groups are part of the small group ministry of the church. Some of us...

Studies & NS

That PSLE math question: What is my worth if I can’t solve a problem?

Teach them how much they value first. I graduated from my PSLE year exactly two decades ago in 2001. Although it wasn’t on the scale of any pandemic, I had gone through an upheaval of my own kind,...

Devotionals

6 takeaways from the book of Job

“These are dark and terrible times for me (and the family). Asking for prayers…” I saw the above posted on a friend’s Facebook page. I private messaged him and found out that his...

Missions

Living on a ship with 2 kids: The joy of serving together as a family

At just 41 years old, Willy Ong is the Executive Director of Operation Mobilisation (OM) Singapore.  But as Willy himself would tell you, this journey simply started with a search for the meaning of...

Movies & TV

Squid Game: How much are our lives worth?

* MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD. SIGN AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW FIRST * It’s hard not to watch Squid Game. The setting is immediately straightforward and compelling: a masked, mysterious...