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!
By the time this pastoral letter is published, most students would have completed their examinations. How did they prepare for their examinations? They would have done several things. During class they ensure that they pay careful attention to what the teacher says. They would also do their homework diligently. This...
As the year comes to a close, companies take stock. A retail shop takes stock to detect theft and strategise pricing for maximum profit. The world does stock taking to earn greater monetary profits, whose benefits last but for a while. For the same reasons, Christians should also do spiritual...
When the church moved from West Coast to Bukit Batok in 2012, we explored how the church could bring the gospel into this community. We visited several HDB blocks where we distributed gospel tracts house by house. We realised, however, this was not the best approach because we could not...
The Adult and Youth Sunday School has completed the study of Gospel of John. We concluded this study with separate Sunday School quiz held separately for both the English and Chinese Sunday School. The quiz comprises 3 sections: True / False, Fill In The Blanks, and, memorizing a set of...
Will I starve to death if I do not have spiritual intake? To put it in another way, will I feel hungry if I do not read the Bible? Many do not think so. “How could it be? I have not read my Bible for two months and I am...
More than 500 years ago during the dark ages of the church, the laity (that is, people who are not popes, bishops, priests, church fathers, etc.) were not allowed to read the Bible (see articles of the Roman Catholic Council of Trent, AD 1546). The government of China today has...
Singapore is a society of many different faiths, cultures, and races. I am thankful that I could enjoy freedom of faith. If you were aware of the situation of Christians in other countries, you would realise that such freedom is not to be taken for granted. Today we could worship...
“Blessed Assurance,” “Praise Him! Praise Him!” and “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross,” are some hymns which we sing regularly in our church. These hymns are written by the great hymn writer, Fanny J. Crosby. She was born in 24 March 1820 in south east New York USA. At the...
John Piper writes about George Muller that “he had read his Bible from end to end almost 200 times. He had prayed in millions of dollars (in today’s currency) for the orphans and never asked anyone directly for money. He never took a salary in the last 68 years of his...
Before Jesus left the disciples to return to his Father who is in heaven, he gave to his disciples the following promise which carries with it a command in Acts 1:8: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in...