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!

Five Reasons for Expository Sermons (2/2)

We have been blessed by the many sermons we have heard from the pulpit of Tree of Life Christian Church. Many of you would notice the nature of sermons preached here. All sermons are expositions of a passage of the Bible for two reasons. First, preachers are not authorised to...

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Five Reasons for Expository Sermons (1/2)

We have been blessed by the many sermons we have heard from the pulpit of Tree of Life Christian Church. Many of you would notice the nature of sermons preached here. All sermons are expositions of a passage of the Bible for two reasons. First, preachers are not authorised to...

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The Perfect Father

In a traditional Chinese family, the partnership between the husband and wife is usually expressed in the husband’s responsibility for external issues and wife for internal issues. This gives the child the impression that the father is often busy working outside. For anything that the child needs, they would need...

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Role of A Father

Fathers play an important role in the family.  We are reminded of the godly father who had wayward children.  Examples are Eli and Aaron.  Eli’s sons did terrible things which were wrong in God’s sight.  Eli knew the evil that his sons did. He failed, however, to chastise or discipline...

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Quiet Time

Those who have tried to teach a child how to do something might have experienced this. Before you have finished what you want to tell him, he tells you: “I know! I know!” When he, however, performed that task, he was unable to do what you wanted. The problem was...

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Conversion

We studied The Great Commission last Sunday: Christians are empowered to fulfil The Great Commission, namely, to save souls and change lives. I also briefly mentioned the conversion of Charles Spurgeon which is an example of how God could use weak vessels to save even great men. Charles Spurgeon is...

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Thinking about Evangelism

Jesus commands us in Matthew 28:18-20 to fulfil the Great Commission. We are commanded to preach the gospel (good news), which is about Jesus Christ. Your loved ones and friends need Jesus. “But they are very happy,” you say. Are they? The author of the Book of Ecclesiastes says that...

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Returning to Church Life

On 26 April 2022, the government lowered the DORSCON disease response level to yellow. This significantly relaxed various safety management measures. The whole country was euphoric about this. Many immediately arranged for meet ups over meals with friends and relatives. Businesses excitedly prepared for the prospect of an upturn in...

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Happy Mother’s Day!

We celebrate Mother’s Day this Sunday. Mother’s Day gives people around the world the opportunity to share a special message with your mother on how much you appreciate her and honour the sacrifices she has made for you. We thank God for mothers for their sacrificial love for their children...

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Care for Each Other

Channel New Asia reports, “Consumer prices in Singapore are set to rise further as businesses pass on accumulating costs to customers amid sharply higher commodity prices, renewed supply chain disruptions and tight domestic labour market conditions, the central bank warned on Thursday (Apr 28). Core inflation is projected to ‘pick...

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