Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Faith

Where is God in my waiting?

Waiting in line for your cup of coffee. Waiting for your online shopping order to arrive. Waiting for your ride to pull up at your door. Our daily lives are punctuated with such periods of waiting,...

Faith

Integral mission: Can you feed the poor with a Bible?

When I made the decision to follow Jesus as a young teenager, I was captivated by what I often heard among other young Christians about “being on fire for God” and “living for Jesus”. It...

Relationships

My father’s kind of love: Hard work, sacrifice, and dad jokes in between

Dad: “If a man who’s bald at his forehead is said to be a great thinker, and a man who’s bald at the top of his crown is said to be a great lover, what about a man who’s bald from the...

Relationships

A letter to the best Dad ever

Dear Dad, For a long time, it was really weird to use that word, “Dad”. I had forgotten how that sounded and felt like since I was 16. I’m sure You remember that day in the hospital...

Culture

How much truth can we bear without being offended?

Jesus was a master at losing people. If you recall, there was a time when the crowds that followed Him were huge. Many were there because they heard of the miracle of the multiplication of bread and...

Mental Health

What having anxiety taught me about God

For as long as I can remember, I’ve grappled with some form of anxiety. And as a Jesus-loving, church-going “good Christian girl”, I’ve often found myself stuck trying to reconcile my faith...

Culture

To every guy who’s been told, “Guys shouldn’t cry”, this is for you

It started young. I was the wobbly eight-year-old boy who struggled at gym – the kid who got picked last whenever the captains assembled their teams. I remember it was gym class one morning and we...

Culture

The Heart of Man: Our brokenness is a bridge, not a barrier

I only get to say this once: If there’s a show everyone needs to watch, it is The Heart of Man, which will be released in Singapore on Friday, May 31, 2019. There’s nothing quite like it...

I'm a New Christian

Who is the devil?

Some of us picture God as an old man with a beard sitting on a cloud. Similarly, many people’s idea of the devil is a red being with horns, a tail, cloven hooves and a pitchfork. The problem with...