Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Faith

Practising and professing your faith: Know your rights

Do you fearĀ sharingĀ aboutĀ your faith in Jesus with a non-Christian? Do you fear speakingĀ publicly about important issues from your perspective as a Christian? These are issues pertinent anywhere...

Culture

Do you love life enough to save it?

ā€œWhat would you do about a young woman in church who is pregnant out of wedlock?ā€ I asked. ā€œAs it is a pastoral matter, we will try to deal with it in private,ā€ came the reply from the...

Culture

Easter is over but we’re still living in that long, long Saturday

By the time you read this, Easter would have come and gone. Good Friday would be done and dusted. Dramatic remembrances of Jesus’ last meal, long bloody trek to Golgotha and final breath would...

Faith

Jesus knows we will fail

ā€œFor your grace is sufficient for me, and your power made perfect in my weakness.ā€Ā (2 Corinthians 12:9) As I was writing my version of Peterā€™s betrayal and reinstatement, God brought my...

Faith

To my left, hope

Iā€™ve seen a lot of things in this life. Things the man on the street would have only heard of or read about. Bad things. But in all my years, Iā€™m still convinced nobody just wakes up and decides...

Health

Exhausted from caregiving, I battled depression and suicidal thoughts

I found it hard to admit that I had been emotionally wounded yet again. I could not accept that my depression had relapsed, and here I was, reliving my darkest nightmare just four years after my...

Culture

What I learnt from being bullied

What comes to mind when you think of betrayal? Bitterness, sadness, pain? In my story of betrayal, I definitely experienced those feelings ā€“ but I found an eternal blessing in the end. I was 11...

Faith

When trouble came, my faith didn’t stand

ā€œWhat have I done?” I couldn’t help it. At that crucial moment of standing up for what I believed in, I was overcome with fear. I’d been a professing follower of Jesus for three...

Faith

Changing church: Moving on to greener pastures?

I have been a member of my church for more than 30 years. And I can recall a couple of times when I thought about moving to another church. So what made me stay? Based on what I’ve observed of...