Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Illness

What good can come out of Alzheimer’s disease?

Alzheimer’s disease. The disease that robbed me of my Ah ma. The disease which came so subtly and without warning. The disease that changed my Ah ma from the inside out. For 8 years, my Ah ma...

Music

Is secular music safe for consumption?

“How do I decide what secular music is safe to listen to?” This is a question I get asked a lot. When I first made that decision to make Jesus the Lord of my life, I inevitably had to change many...

Devotionals

Buried or planted?

This week, two seemingly unrelated events converged on the same day and shed some light onto what I’ve been recently pondering. I received two packs of seeds from the National Parks to grow some...

Worldview

It’s about time

We’ve all heard it said before that “time is money”. Well, to be more accurate, I think we sell time for money. It is more obvious for professional services which charge an hourly rate,...

Real Life, Real People

Believing I was a good-for-nothing, I had given up on my future

Growing up, the only thing I remember about school is constantly being scolded and punished by my parents and teachers because I just didn’t get it. Why do angles in a triangle amount to 180°?...

Workplace

When my personality made me feel inferior

My department manager recently attended a DISC personality profile course, and wanted us to take the test too. Her aim was for us to learn about one another’s working style so that we can work...

Sermons

Loving Singapore starts in our homes: Day of His Power 2020

At the first-ever online Day of His Power, church leaders kicked off the evening with a heartfelt discussion on the state of the Church, sharing how they felt God was challenging the Body of Christ...

COVID-19

Why are we celebrating National Day in a time of crisis?

I don’t envy the folks in charge of this year’s National Day Parade (NDP) because this will probably be the strangest and hardest year to plan a parade around. While last year’s...

Workplace

How God worked through my failures at work

“Agnes, please pay attention to your careless mistakes. You scored the lowest in our department audit.” These were the words my boss directed at me as she displayed slides of our January audit...