Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Finding Purpose

Full-time under 30: Becoming who I was made to be

In the first half of 2012, I wrote my future self a letter. I had just completed my final semester as a business student at SMU and had gathered with a group of schoolmates to assemble a time...

Culture

Identity in the age of authenticity: Who am I, really?

In confronting the problem of being true to oneself, weโ€™re left unsure of who we even are. This has resulted in a loneliness epidemic across the world. An ordained pastor and full-time speaker for...

Finding Purpose

Full-time under 30: Help! I did not expect ministry to look like this

First things first, I donโ€™t profess to know everything, and experiences definitely vary between individuals. I find it terribly challenging to pen these thoughts down as I still consider myself...

Outreach

FOPx: Young people, let’s pray for the Celebration of Hope

Come May 17-19, 2019, hundreds of churches are uniting in a historic joint effort to share the Good News for 3 days and 3 nights in the National Stadium for the Celebration of Hope (COH). In light of...

Devotionals

Guilty as charged

Will we ever run out of grace? Will my sons be raised well while Iโ€™m in jail? Will my wife wait for me or run off with another man? Am I a good father? These were probably the questions of anguish...

Family

Seeing God as a loving Father

I came from a family with a silent father. He was never really pleased or displeased with me, but mainly disinterested. After enough disappointments and unmet promises in my childhood, he became a...

Easter

Resurrection Sunday: Brokenness is not the end of the story

Joy does not come with the morning, I thought to myself on one of the many mornings my body had failed to stay asleep. Sleep would suddenly leave me in the early hours of the day, when it was still...

Easter

Have you lost heart?

So many of us carry a spirit of resignation and cynicism bred from a thousand small disappointments over time. As an educator, I hear it in the disheartened voices of students who tell me, โ€œI will...

Discipleship

No, repentance is not just being sorry

Nobody likes the feeling of knowing you’re in the wrong. It first hits you with a gnawing feeling inside your heart, and before you know it, it’s the works: Shame, humiliation, regret and...