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!
When you go home today, I would suggest that you take a look at several photographs: photographs taken when you were a little child and a photograph of your parents’ when you were that little child. You will probably notice how small and helpless you were. You will also see...
Just recently, names of several persons whom I know personally got published in the newspapers. The news, unfortunately, were bad news. One person hurt her maid and was sentenced to several months imprisonment. Another drove an SBS bus and killed a maid. For the latter news, I have yet to...
Today is the first anniversary of Tree of Life Christian Church. It started off with a group of about 10 people. Today, which is about a year later, we have a few more people who regularly join us for worship. Numerically, we are still a small church. Yet we have...
Death can be scary because when death sets in, a happy family is destroyed. It is scary because you have to walk this path on your own: no matter how much your wife or husband loves you, no matter how much your children love you, none of them can accompany...
Everyone must die and be judged for his or her sins. If you die and bring sin into eternity, you will perish for eternity in hell. Your sin has separated you from the Holy God who alone can give you abundant life. Without this abundant life, you are experiencing in...
Do you think it is easy to persuade people to buy an ordinary medicine, for example, “Panadol”? The difficulty is two-fold. First, it is intimidating to approach a stranger and then not knowing what to say. Second, the thought of being rejected adds to the discouragement. Next Sunday (28th March...
In about a month’s time on 1st April 2010 (Thursday) evening at 8pm, we will be commemorating our Lord’s death. We will hold a gospel rally. Rev Goh Seng Fong will preach in English and I will interpret the message into Mandarin. A choir will also present two songs, one...
Death on the cross was invented by the ancient Romans. To this day, it remains the cruelest form of death sentence in history. This was the way our Lord suffered and died—for us. He died that we may live. We who are sinners must die because we have sinned against...
Just not too long ago, I got a new hand phone. It has a large screen. I was determined to keep it scratch-free. For that, I kept my keys in one pocket and my hand phone in the other—away from things that would scratch it. But a few days ago,...
For some, celebrating the Chinese New Year can be a very trying occasion. While some dread being asked very personal questions by visiting relatives ranging from marriage to one’s financial and social standing, some find unbearable the scorching sun when running from one house to another. Some simply dislike the...