Articles by

Gabriel Ong

How-tos & Handles

How can we grieve well?

Every day, we will hear and witness death around us. It is normal for us to grieve, especially when our loved ones die. Yet, grief can be debilitating and incapacitating. Grief can rob one of the...

Tech

God and Games: Former Street Fighter pro fights gaming stigma with G.G.

Ever heard of the arcade game Street Fighter 2? Back in the day, Lang Tien was one of its fiercest competitors and even one-time promoter. That was how he began running a company that organised...

Discipleship

A torrid year, a troubled generation

I don’t know if you’ve received a little WhatsApp text that’s been going around.  This one’s about a timeline that lays out some notable events the younger generation have...

Mental Health

Struck down but not destroyed: Lessons on life from a Perepat tree

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” These words of the Apostle Paul in 2...

Mental Health

How to deal with trauma after a life-threatening event

In 2017, I was blessed with the opportunity to go to London alone for five months on a university exchange programme. It was truly a memorable period of time, being able to learn about a new culture,...

Mental Health

Worrying suicide trends, more people seeking help: SOS

COVID-19 has made for unprecedented levels of distress in society, which have resulted in suicide trends that are deeply concerning. Just today, it was also reported that the 16-year-old River Valley...

Studies & NS

It’s not the end: The miracles I saw through my education

Looking back at my early teenage years in 2011, or even childhood for that matter, I was always quite the playful child. I remember the days when I was in Primary School where I refused to do my...

COVID-19

How COVID-19 casts a magnifying glass on life

Through this recent KTV cluster, I feel that God is revealing to me that COVID-19 has been nothing short of a magnifying glass. Rather than focusing on the magnifying glass (COVID-19), we ought to...

Worldview

Boomers and Millennials: How different are their views on church services?

Recently, I came across a fascinating article by our friends at Graceworks on whether physical church services are still relevant today. The topic is one that is particularly pertinent to our times,...