Articles by

Gabriel Ong

News

Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz confesses that he was unfaithful in marriage, leading out of an empty place

A day since Hillsong released its official statement on the dismissal of Pastor Carl Lentz due to “moral failures”, the latter has come forward with his own statement on Instagram....

Illness

How God healed me and my grandmother

“Everything will work out for the best.” We’ve all heard this phrase before. It comforts us when things that don’t make sense happen in our lives, or we encounter difficult...

COVID-19

How to get rid of your unwanted “new normal” habits

As the world adjusts to a “new normal”, I’ve awakened to the realisation that COVID-19 has incubated a “new normal” of a different kind within me — one I’m not sure I should get used...

Finding Purpose

Fresh graduate: I get it, the job-search is killer

Landing a job as a fresh graduate is challenging enough, but coupled with my “inferior” private university degree and lack of internship experience, I felt like I was up against Goliath....

Illness

One man’s journey through psoriatic arthritis

Before Tom Cannon got together with his girlfriend, Ethel, he had to lay all the cards down: They might never be able to have children of their own. Since 19 years old, Tom has been suffering from...

Discipleship

How do I help my cell group members when it comes to sexual purity?

“Lord, I’m so sorry… I messed up again. Help me stop.” This would be my almost nightly prayer for a number of years since the first time I began exploring my own sexuality out of curiosity. I...

How-tos & Handles

Help, I’m a blur sotong: How to job hunt like a boss

As a fresh graduate who has been job hunting for two months now, unemployment can feel intensely intimidating. It has been a uniquely challenging phase in life where I’ve had to focus on my...

Disabilities

Brought back from the brink of death, he wrestled with the reality of losing his limbs

Within 24 hours of coming down with a high fever, Jason Leong was lying in the intensive care unit. Earlier that evening, he had noticed traces of blood in his urine, and his fingers, toes and lips...

Discipleship

Like father, like son

After my son Caleb was born, I began to reconsider the meaning of discipleship in my parenthood journey. I started observing our daily lives. Whenever I spoke to family members in an impatient tone...