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!
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) The Lord Jesus said the above to his disciples the night before he was betrayed. Shortly after saying these...
Christians commemorate Reformation Day on 31st Oct. On this day in the year 1517, Martin Luther wrote his 95 theses and affixed them to the door of the Castle of Wittenberg on 31st Oct 1517. Born in Germany in 1483, Martin Luther became one of the most influential figures in...
We thank God for our Singapore government who is constructing a social safety net to care for people who are less fortunate. These plans include providing highly subsidized housing, giving financial assistance to needy students, improving the healthcare system, etc. I appreciate these measures taken by the government: despite the...
A recent write-up on Joseph Schooling in the Straits Times reads: “The hardest thing for Joseph Schooling . . . In the call room, he’s still safe. In the cramped call room, with its eight big men with eight bigger egos; he’s “zoned out,” losing himself in music. However, Joseph...
Life in the world is like running a marathon. It requires strength, endurance, wisdom and many other resources. Thank God that Jesus is our Saviour who has promised us: “Never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you” (Heb 13:5). But the Lord not only promised us the needed...
An Indonesian housewife was a victim of her husband’s rage and jealousy for over 20 years. Her husband is in his 50s and worked as a security guard. Except fetching her children to and from school, he disallows her from going anywhere else. She was not even allowed to make...
We faced several challenges in the process of preparing for this year’s gospel rally. First, the choir. The second song “My Jesus Fair” was a difficult song. The choir had only a total of 8 practices. Not a few are singing in a choir for the first time and are...
As I am writing this, the church is busy preparing for our Annual Gospel Rally. From the beginning of July, our brothers and sisters have been diligently staying back in church for choir practice every Sunday. In fact, besides the weekly choir practices, our choir works hard by practicing the...
In a recent survey on graciousness in public transport by the LTA, 94% of 1000 commuters who were polled, said they gave up their seats to those who needed them most, while 98% said they queued up to enter the MRT trains and gave way to alighting passengers. In addition,...
The long awaited shopping mall is open—JEM. It’s big and there are lots of things to buy and eat. I was especially delighted with the food. But not too long ago, two incidents of fire broke out. In the recent one, two cars were burnt and one of them was...