Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Singlehood

Is it better not to marry?

The other night my sister and I found ourselves talking about singleness because we’re, you know, single. We talked about God’s gift of sexuality, and both agreed that it’s a...

Discipleship

I wanted to break up with God

I have been struggling for the longest time. These days, when people ask me what I want to do in the future, I cringe a little when I tell them what I really want to be: A missionary. And I feel like...

Outreach

How is God moving in your friendships?

“Wow, I can relate to what Jesus said about being born again spiritually, and not physically. This makes a lot of sense!” When my friend K* blurted that sentence out in the middle of January,...

Discipleship

Help! I’m not smart enough to teach the Bible

“But… I’m not gifted to teach the Bible!” is the common refrain against taking the step to share God’s Word with others. Yes, God has especially gifted certain men to be teachers so as to...

Devotionals

Setting the slave free

Slavery is an awkward topic to broach in any Christian setting. To our modern minds, the only kind of slavery the Bible should talk about is the “spiritual” kind. Who today would want to...

Life & Death

Saving the safest place in the world

I had been asking God what was next. After years in the marketing industry, enjoying my job as I supported my husband in his full-time ministry as a pastor, I had known for some time that I needed to...

Finding Purpose

Has your life been shaped by a higher standard?

“The clay does not know what it’s meant to be until it emerges from the kiln.” This is what my husband and I often tell our pottery students when we introduce them to the art of ceramics....

News

Christchurch attack: Let’s talk about beliefs

The recent Christchurch terrorist attack deeply saddened me. It haunts me when I imagine a terrorist storming into my place of worship raining bullets on all my fellow worshippers I love. I pray for...

News

Some dramas have no happy ending

It has been the Korean drama nobody could have seen coming. Ever since its early beginnings at the turn of the year, when a 28-year-old man submitted a request for help from the presidential Blue...