Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Culture

Why I stopped reading fanfic

Fan fiction. Not everyone would be proud to say that they read them. Most of us have it as a little secret, a guilty pleasure. Why fanfics? To escape reality. When real-life celebrities or characters...

Money Matters

5 steps to handling money well

Money. Practically speaking, we need it to live. We use it to get food, clothes and to secure a place to live. To some extent, it influences nearly every decision we make every day. How can...

Personalities

Scoring life’s biggest goal: Liverpool’s Firmino and 5 other footballers who love God

You may have recently seen the news that one of football’s biggest stars, Roberto Firmino, got baptised last week. Liverpool’s mercurial no. 9 was baptised at his home by teammate and...

National Service

Finding hope in the face of NS enlistment

2019 was a big year for me because it was when I graduated from polytechnic and enlisted into National Service (NS). I faced enlistment with greater fear and apprehension than most. This was largely...

Friendship

5 people you need to be friends with

Church is dismissed and the rustling starts. Do you quietly sneak out the back doors of the sanctuary? Or do you stick around, finding ways to soak up the richness of the diversity of the body of...

Work

How to face up to work life without losing it

The transition from school to work can be greatly jarring and filled with disappointment. At this juncture, there’s often a risk that many of us might get disillusioned and fall away from what...

Surveys & Reports

Young adult, this is what your church leader really wants to tell you

This year’s theme at Summit 2020 – Love Never Fails – encapsulated well the spirit of the 4-day LoveSingapore annual prayer retreat for pastors and leaders. Unity, authenticity and...

Devotionals

How well do we know God’s face?

I was reading Psalm 27:8 and soon found myself crying out to God, “When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ my heart said to You, ‘Your face, Lord, I will seek.’” Then I heard the Holy Spirit ask...

Money Matters

Help, I’m a blur sotong: I realised how little I knew about finances

One of the less talked-about (and much less fun) parts of becoming an adult is having to figure out all the adulting stuff needed for real life. By adulting, I mean that moment when you realise...