Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Dating

What should I be looking for in dating?

What does a godly dating relationship look like? While the Bible has a lot of wisdom and guidance for God-honouring marriages, it doesn’t provide step-by-step instructions for how to achieve one....

Finding Purpose

Serving the water, 3 years on

“I know I’ve said this already, but can I just say again what a beautiful way with words you now have?” An old teammate from our early Thir.st days texted me after my recent piece...

Discipleship

Do you really want Jesus?

There was nothing special about today. It was warm and sunny as usual. I took my laptop and was ready to start work in my living room. I opened my Spotify and a familiar song started playing in the...

Discipleship

Distraction, deception and the devil

In his sermon on spiritual attack, Stef Liston, Senior Pastor of Revelation Church in North London, spoke about the two main ways the devil wages war. First, he turns our attention from God through...

Post-secondary

Pregnant at 18, I had an abortion before my A-levels

I was from an all-girls school. And like any teenage girl undergoing puberty, I was desperate for love and attention from boys. There was a boys’ school just across the road from mine, and many...

Sermons

FOPx: Making 2020 your Year of the Impossible

Much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe that we love, where 23 movies made over a span of 10 years tell a cumulative story quite unlike anything the world has ever seen, this year’s FOPx GO...

Sermons

Stay where you are, even if you can’t find Jesus: Tyshone Roland at FOPx GO Conference

It was counter-intuitive for a conference themed GO, when youth pastor Tyshone Roland of Free Chapel Youth Church, USA, took the stage on the first night of the FOPx Conference 2019 and opened with a...

Singlehood

Singles, are we self-partnered like Emma Watson?

The news is out: Emma Watson no longer identifies as “single” but “self-partnered” instead. In a recent interview with British Vogue, the 29-year-old actress, famous for her...

Sermons

A second shot at life: Salt Media’s Sherman Ng on almost losing it all to a life of decadence

To a spectator on the outside, Sherman Ng has led a good life. The ex-banker who traded in his fancy cars for pastoral work to take care of his stepfather’s church, and soon after entered the...