Articles by

Kenneth Chew

Culture

Do you love God like you love football?

If only we loved God like we love football. Almost every weekend, football fans gear up for their weekly dose of Premier LeagueĀ fever. Forget worship service, forgetĀ cell group.Ā This is the...

Discipleship

The case for good old theology

Theology. Doctrine. Religion. ScaryĀ words oftenĀ scapegoated, seen as potentially divisive and antagonistic to true spirituality.Ā A movement has started to rid the church of boring theological...

Post-secondary

The road less travelled, winding through death, betrayal and ITE

ā€œRun in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last...

Relationships

The most unequal yoke of all

ā€œDo not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?ā€ (2 Corinthians 6:14) A yoke is an contraption...

Church Life

Solving the muddle of the Holy Huddle

Quick, count how many Christian friends you have. Now count how many non-Christian friends you have. Chances are, the former outnumber the latter. Christians often use the concept of ā€œin but not of...

Relationships

The quest for true love

ā€œI love the bak chor mee here!ā€Ā  ā€œI think Iā€™m in love!ā€ ā€œGod loves you!ā€ Any of these phrases familiar to you? Thanks to pop culture, loose usage of the word ā€œloveā€ has cheapened...

Relationships

Teach me to love

What is love? Christians likeĀ to go Greek when trying to understand the things of God.Ā So here we go. The Greeks, in their sophistication, would be appalled at the crude generalisations of love in...

Apologetics

Living with the gravity of doubt

Brought up in a church culture where everyone is taught to ā€œjust believeā€, many Christians grow comfortable and complacent. Weā€™ve got our own dialect of Christianese, hip pastors, and church...

Worldview

Stewardship of the environment: My worship

The first time I saw a humpback whale breach, tears flowed uncontrollably. ItĀ too, seemed to worship itsĀ Creator. ItĀ isĀ not alone. “Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad, let the...