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!
The author stresses the importance of having a rich dimension of communication that must lie beneath and support all you say in disciplining your child. Communication must be multi-faceted and richly textured. It must include encouragement, correction, rebuke, entreaty, instruction, warning, understanding, teaching, and prayer. All these must be part...
Below is an article about Adoniram Judson that is extracted from Wholesome Words. In 1809, the same year he joined the Congregational church, he became burdened to become a missionary. He found some friends from Williams College with the same burden and often met with them at a haystack on...
Below is an article about Adoniram Judson that is extracted from Wholesome Words. Adonirum Judson read at the age of three years, took navigation lessons at ten, studied theology as a child, entered Providence College (now Brown University) at seventeen — despite the fact he spent one year of his...
Below is an article about Pastor Wang Ming Dao that is extracted from Christianity.com. Wang Ming-Dao . . . was born in 1900, during the Boxer uprising in China. This uprising was a revolt against foreign influences that were destroying ancient Chinese culture. The Wangs were in deadly danger, because...
As you look around the worship hall today, you may find all in all about 20 to 40 persons in the room, with many chairs still unoccupied. Or, it may just occur to you that just last week you were serving as greeter and today you are back again in...
The author highlights that setting goals and the methods used to raise our children are complementary to each other. Your goal is that your child will glorify God through his/her life. It should involve not just rich and full communication, but also the rod. Both elements should be tightly coupled...
On behalf of the church, I wish to say “thank you” to every teacher who includes parents, mentors, or those who have made an effort in helping a new Christian grow spiritually. Today, we remember those who hold the office of a teacher in the Sunday School. These teachers teach...
Dwight L. Moody was an American evangelist in the late 1800s whom God greatly used to save souls. Below is an autobiography extracted from Christianity.com. Dwight L. Moody didn’t attend school beyond the fifth grade; he couldn’t spell, and his grammar was awful. His manners were often brash and crude,...
Luke 16:19-31 records an account about how a rich man died and went to hell. A beggar named Lazarus also died but went to heaven. Whilst in hell, this rich man saw Abraham (Abraham was the ancestor of God’s chosen nation, Israel) in heaven and Lazarus resting in Abraham’s bosom....
The church organises a gospel rally every year. This year is no exception. You may know that this year’s gospel rally will be held in church, on 4th of September, 8pm. The theme for this year’s gospel rally is “The Love of God.” We are privileged to have someone familiar,...