Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Friendship

3 types of friends we all need

Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory — these are a few of my favourite shows I grew up watching. I remember thinking to myself, how fun and awesome it would be to rent an apartment...

Culture

Hear Tim Keller out as he airs an unpopular, counter-cultural view of sex

If you follow Tim Keller on Facebook, you’ll know he is wont to share thought-provoking reflections which often range from cryptic to soul-provoking. Last week, a recent one-liner by the...

Faith

What makes a Christian a Christian?

How does a Christian look like? Can you recognise them? From appearance alone, some may look like John the Baptist. John lived in the wilderness, and his food and clothes were rough and...

Faith

How to walk in God’s promises and wait for them

Growing up in the Christian faith, I wouldn’t say I’m unfamiliar with the promises of God. We sing about them, hear them being preached, and even pray about them countless times. To me, the...

Faith

Curious and confused, I challenged God repeatedly

Growing up, I was strongly averse to the Christian community.  I was happy being who I was and doing what I did since birth, worshipping whatever I worshipped. I just wanted to be me and to be left...

Health

When I found out my mum had cancer… again

5 March 2017. It was a Wednesday evening, and I had decided to take a GrabCar home from school in order to make it back on time for dinner with my parents. Mum hadn’t been feeling well for the past...

Culture

That’s what B.R.O.T.H.E.R.S. are for

It is tragic and heartbreaking to see the rise in incidences of sexual impropriety and immorality today, ranging from voyeurism, sexting, sexual grooming, power abuses for sexual favours,...

Relationships

Loving nice people is easy. But what about not-so-nice people?

One of the most-talked-about subjects of the Bible is love. In fact, Jesus said that we identify ourselves as His disciples through the way we love people. We don’t prove who we are by the...

Studies & NS

My path wasn’t clear after polytechnic, but God led the way

As an architecture student in polytechnic, my dream was to study overseas. My parents also desired for me to go overseas. I was planning to go after I graduated. I was applying for universities...