Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Dating

Help, I’m a blur sotong: How to online date like a gentleman

“Eh, try leh.” That was definitely not what my mum said to me when I told her I wanted to look for love online (but two of my friends did!). You see, I am no oppa or Prince Charming. Far from...

Apologetics

3 things Jesus is calling us to, and it’s not more work

What is discipleship really all about? The simplest answer is it’s really all about following Jesus. In Matthew 4:19, Jesus said to His disciples, who were fishermen: “Follow me, and I...

Worldview

What if there’s a disease much more lethal than COVID-19?

What is it about contagious diseases that we have so much primal fear over? As we religiously attempt to sanitise and set ourselves apart and avoid all contact with contagion, we do whatever we can...

Dating

No, romance is not your great reward

A Christian counsellor once told me that addiction to pornography is poisonous to a marriage. “If you watch pornography, your marriage will break down.” He said that pornography kills...

Apologetics

Pastor Edmund Chan on the world’s greatest need

It’s often been said the world is in trouble and the Church is in need. Look at global warming. Look at the economic meltdown. Look at this viral infection. Look at the earthquakes, the forest...

Apologetics

Do you have fear, folly, fatalism… or faith?

Fear is something we all have, and much of that is natural. But what about the kind of fear that rules over us, dominating our hearts, directing our actions? When such fear takes control, our view of...

COVID-19

“In God’s economy, man’s adversity is God’s opportunity”: Bishop Rennis Ponniah on celebrating hope in a time of COVID-19

More than a year after the Celebration of Hope (COH) was first announced publicly, over 200 church and ministry leaders gathered at St Andrew’s Cathedral (SAC) yesterday to give thanks for the...

COVID-19

Young people and COVID-19: Don’t be scared, but please be wise

Most Singaporeans are fearful of COVID-19, but it seems this is less true for younger people. In fact, over 60% of those under age 30 said they would continue to attend important events even if they...

Mental Health

When it looks like world’s end, the best defence is taking heart

It’s been every kind of storm. A biomedical storm. A media storm. Now even a supermarket storm. But in the eye of the global frenzy stirred up by COVID-19, I’ve recently found myself...