Articles by

Joanne Kwok

How-tos & Handles

Can you bloom in adversity?

I used to watch Mulan every night after dinner. It was 1999, a year after Disney released the animated version of the story I’d grown up with in Chinese classes. Arguably the most well-known female...

Workplace

Why I love my work, where I am, whatever it is

Work. It’s a scary word. From a young age I got the impression workĀ wasn’t a good thing, justĀ something we had to do. My familyĀ had always struggled financially. Though my parents...

Discipleship

Don’t numb the pain

Sigmund Freud once proposed that the mind seeks to avoid pain and findĀ pleasure. In this life, we will get our hearts get broken. People might say mean things to us. Something or someone beloved...

Discipleship

What does it really mean to be #blessed?

ā€œI am so blessed to get these pair of new kicks for my birthday!ā€ ā€œI received the promotion that I’ve been waiting for … I feel so blessed!ā€ ā€œI got an ā€˜A’ on the test even...

Discipleship

Feeling the burn?

How am I going to survive this?, IĀ found myself thinking one recent afternoon. It wasn’t just the exceptional heat from the morning sun making its way down my face and soaking uncomfortably...

Money Matters

What your spending habits say about you

When I got my first paycheque, I finally felt like a grown-up. No longer would I have to ask my parents for more allowance to buy clothes and watch movies. Holidays were no longer limited to church...

Discipleship

Say it with me: I am wonderfully made

I’m not built like your typical Singaporean guy. I’m ridiculously tall for an Asian – at 1.84m I’m in the 96thĀ percentile of Singaporean males. My shoulders are curiouslyĀ broad,...

Devotionals

I AM good enough

ā€œI AM he who exists.ā€ God is self-existent; He does not rely on any other being for His existence. He was not created and is the Creator of all things that are living. So the name ā€œI AMā€...

Discipleship

Getting to the meat of my temptations

The season of Lent has ended for the year – a time when many Christians fast in a posture of repentance and reflection. Sometime last year,Ā I began to placed myself on a pedestal, inscribed with...