Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Videos

Our Top 5 videos of 2018

If you’re sitting back and reminiscing the days gone by in the final hours of 2018, here are our Top 5 videos of the year to keep you company. #5 Because He died, I’ll live forever: The...

Faith

Our Top 10 stories by contributors in 2018

The stories you read on Thir.st are a unique blend of voices from across our little island of Singapore – and at times, around the region. Many of these testimonies are written by contributors, and...

Discipleship

Where are your accusers?

We are all on a search for significance. And this pursuit of significance varies in expression. For some, that pursuit may come in the form of an obsession to do “well” in life, for...

Faith

Reframing the miraculous: It’s all about salvations

“Jesus did not come just to show us what He could do but what we could do,” Robby Dawkins told the crowd on the third night of School of Power and Love 2018. “He destroyed the works...

Christmas

Why we should care about the commercialisation of Christmas

The National Council of Churches (NCCS) sent a letter to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on November 23, 2018, expressing concern that the exclusive focus on Disney characters for this year’s...

Faith

What is Jesus worth, that you would die for your faith?

I remember the day Jesus broke the fear of death in me. January 12, 2016, Turkey. We were supposed to have been up north in Istanbul visiting the Blue Mosque at Sultanahmet. For some reason, our...

Do Good

A refugee story: All they want for Christmas is you

“I’ve always been looking for ways to tell their story, especially to get people to understand refugees a bit better,” Alexis had written in her latest text to me. “It’s a Chin...

Culture

I liked myself because I was “liked”

When social media first entered our lives, it was a fun and novel way to connect with friends and family. I suppose it remained rather innocuous for me until I started working. As a performer, I...

Finding Purpose

Isaac Ong: I had a dream, then God gave me a voice

I find it very hard to answer when people ask me, “What’s your job?” I’ve been part of the chaplaincy team at St. Hilda’s Secondary School, part of the FOPx network, part of singing...