Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Culture

A more mature love

Like every young person,  I used to get indignant over the idea of losing your passion as you get older, enter the workforce, and so on and so forth as the years go by. Especially when it came to...

Sermons

The revival resolution: Keep your hearts burning in 2018

As we enter 2018 and you make your New Year’s resolutions, I want to help frame your year ahead with what I feel God is saying and doing. We like to talk about how God is raising Singapore up to be...

Christmas

To my friends this Christmas: Your presence has made all the difference

Reflecting on the year as it comes to a close, I see myself still walking on the road to recovery from the great hurt in my life. I was asking myself typical strength-based questions that...

Christmas

The dirty, messy manger: God’s message to humanity

Singaporeans might find this hard to imagine, but there’s something about the birthplace of Jesus that speaks so loudly of the Saviour we serve. If we teleport ourselves back to the night Jesus...

Christmas

This Christmas, take a Sabbath from sadness

There’s two kinds of Christmas stories: The ones where we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, our loved ones and families, all the good warm fuzzy things that come with the season; and the...

Christmas

The other side of Christmas

Truth be told, this year I don’t feel altogether “christmassy”. The week preceding Christmas has been laden with happenings that brought much discouragement and disappointment. I...

Relationships

Am I still significant without a significant other?

Names have been changed for privacy. Several years back, a girl called Stephanie and I worked together on a children’s camp for Church. Having only just moved on from a broken heart not too while...

Faith

Freely my father gave, even after he lost his job

From a young age, giving was always inculcated in our family. My dad would give my siblings and I a $1 coin each to put into the offering bag at Sunday school in Church. Every time we went to a...

Relationships

The God of irreconcilable differences

There is no way we can save this. No hope that we’ll ever work out our problems. We’re too different. Too far gone. We just have to accept it as irretrievable. Unfixable. One too many...