Pastoral Letters are weekly communications from our church pastor to the congregation. They are mostly original reflections on the Word of God in response to church events or current affairs, local or beyond, with the primary intent to exhort Christians to live rightly before God in the real world. Short bibliographies are sometimes featured towards the same end.
We pray that these writings will be a great blessing to you!
We have reached the halfway mark in the year. Typically, schools would have completed their mid-year examinations. Likewise, in corporate life, we would have completed our first half-yearly review. Our mid-year examinations or mid-year performance review provides us with a measure on how we had performed in school and at...
Singapore’s general election will be held on 10 July 2020. A total of 192 candidates will contest for 93 seats. In the last few days political parties debated on various issues. The first debate involving seven political parties was broadcast. Straits Times (1 July 2020) writes that “with the worst...
Our Lord Jesus says that Christians are “the salt of the earth” (Matt 5:13) and “the light of the world” (Matt 5:14). The goal of this two-fold command is to “let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matt...
Today is Father’s Day. I wish all fathers happiness and health! Recently, there was a short film on television dedicated to fathers on this Father’s Day. It included a thanksgiving speech prepared by different children for their fathers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some children thanked their fathers who helped them...
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s strength in the face of adversity lies not just in its financial reserves but in the “deep reserves of social capital,” said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat. In fact, the crisis, he said, has brought out the best in the community. For instance,...
The article below was written by Dr. Peter Masters and is extracted from https://www.metropolitantabernacle.org/Articles/God-s-Love-in-a-Pandemic. These are momentous days when we find ourselves in the midst of a worldwide ‘discipline’ or warning from God, calling us to acknowledge and seek Him. And although we shrink from the thought, this is the...
Recently, the government provided details about the three phases of the lockdown due to Covid-19. We gather that we still need to stay home for at least several months. Let us continue to pray for our cabinet ministers that the Lord would give them good health and wisdom to navigate...
The government announced on 20 May the three phases of exiting from the lockdown due to Covid-19. Phase one (starting 2 June) will last at least 4 weeks and phase two several months. In phase 3, Straits Times reports that “by this time, social, cultural, religious and business gatherings are...
For brothers and sisters to have fellowship and Sunday school during this circuit breaker period, the Church made use of video conferencing methods to resume Sunday school lessons on 18 April 2020. Following that, the church also moved to online prayer meeting on 21 April 2020. We thank God that...
Singapore will enter a recession this year because of the blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in job losses and lower wages. There will be “significant uncertainty” over how long and intense the downturn will be. This warning comes from the central bank warned on Tuesday (Apr 28). The recession...