Andrew Ong, Author at REFORMED MARGINS

Spiritual Growth

Racism & Repentance

June 25, 2020June 24, 2020 Andrew Ong 0 Comments complicity, racism, racist, repent, systemic racism

“Thank you God that I am not a racist!” Sound familiar? Perhaps you haven’t heard these specific words come out

Personal Testimonies

A Homily for Boh Boh’s Funeral

February 27, 2020February 10, 2022 Andrew Ong 4 Comments death, funeral, grief, grieving, hope

On Tuesday, my family held an Asian funerals and buried my 90-year old grandmother, who died in the living Christ.

Church & Ministry

The Threat of Chaos in Diverse Churches

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Andrew Ong 12 Comments diversity, multi-generational church, unity and diversity

Real talk about diverse, multi-[fill in the blank] churches.

Personal Testimonies

Pursuing Ministry While Reformed & Chinese

June 21, 2018September 4, 2019 Andrew Ong 9 Comments Asian American, asian american psychology, chinese american, chinese american psychology, ministry, Presbyterian, psychology, pursuing ministry, Reformed

The psychology of a Chinese American Presbyterian deciding between ministry opportunities in Asian or non-Asian churches, suburban churches or urban churches, Reformed churches or broadly evangelical churches.

Spiritual Growth

The Truth that Makes Us Feel It

February 6, 2018February 5, 2018 Andrew Ong 0 Comments asaph, feel, feel the truth, feeling, feeling the truth, feelings, feels, God is good, God is with us, God's presence, hold my hand, holding hands, immanuel, know the truth, knowing the truth, nail-pierced, nail-pierced hand, portion, presence of God, ps 73, psalm 73, refuge, taste and see, taste and see that the lord is good, truth, truth and feelings, whom have i in heaven but you, you are with me, you hold my right hand

Often the truth we know seems so contrary to what we feel, but there is a truth that makes us feel it.

Church & Ministry

Consuming ‘Good Community’ as an Asian American Millennial

December 28, 2017December 27, 2017 Andrew Ong 1 Comment Asian American, church, church community, Community, consumer, consumerism, consumption, context, contextual, finding community, finding good community, middle class, millennial

How much is our conception of ‘good community’ tied to our consumer preferences?

Spiritual Growth

A Word to Millennials Repenting of Their Fundamentalism

November 27, 2017 Andrew Ong 4 Comments american, evangelical, evangelicalism, evangelicals, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, millennial

An encouragement to millennial Christians that we repent of our former fundamentalist ways with humility.

Theology & Scripture

Sola Scriptura (in Chinese American Perspective)

October 5, 2017September 4, 2019 Andrew Ong 6 Comments bible, chinese american, clarity of scripture, first principles, five solas, God's Word, hermeneutics, interpretation, martin luther, perspicuity, principium, Reformation, reformation 500, reformed theology, scripture, scripture interprets scripture, sola scriptura, sufficiency of scripture, the scriptures, word of god

In recognition of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, Reformed Margins will be reflecting on the five solas this October. The five

Personal Testimonies

A Ministry on the Margins: Sunny’s Story

September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 Andrew Ong 0 Comments campus ministry, campus mission, china, china outreach ministries, chinese, chinese church, chinese international students, chinese students

A Chinese international student with a PhD in psychology gets saved and falls in love with Reformed theology in America. Find out what happens next!

Culture & Identity

7 Issues in the Chinese American Church

August 3, 2017August 3, 2017 Andrew Ong 16 Comments Asian American, asian american church, challenges, challenges in the chinese american church, challenges in the church, chinese american, chinese american church, future of the asian american church, issues in the chinese american church, issues in the church

A look at some prominent challenges that the Chinese American church faces today.

← Previous