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!
Healthy people sometimes do not think about death. Let me exaggerate it: they think that they will not die. This is especially true for people who are doing well in life. The pleasures of this life and their healthy physical bodies can cause them to be insensitive to the fact...
Why must you care for the church, Tree of Life Christian Church? The reason is that the church provides safety from life’s dangerous things and events. “Church” refers to human beings, not to a building. It is a group of Christians who worships regularly at a particular physical location, e.g.,...
During the pandemic circuit breaker, all physical activities at the church came to a sudden halt. Worship service was only possible via online pre-recording. For brothers and sisters-in-Christ who were accustomed to weekly worshipping in church premises, this arrangement would have caused us to feel that a big piece of...
God’s faithfulness is demonstrated in His providence for man. God made the sun to rise every morning and set every evening for generations. We can depend on God because of His faithfulness. He promised He would not fail to keep His promises and we can trust Him to fulfil this...
We usually keep track of a year by quarters. When we neared the end of last year, we may have said something like, “Time really flies. This is the final month of the year.” At this time, we are nearing the end of the first quarter of the year. To...
Since I was young, I learnt and tried to do many things on my own. I used to have panic attacks and pent-up emotions because I was not the best at talking to people. One good thing, however, was that I grew up believing that someone was up there for...
Crowds were seen in the various wet markets in the days leading to the eve of lunar new year. Thanks to social distancing measures, we did not encounter overcrowding in these places. For those who frequent the wet markets, they do not mind waking up in the wee hours, endure...
Glory be to God for seeing us through the past year, a tumultuous year, fraught with uncertainty brought about by the CoViD-19 pandemic. Year 2020 is an unprecedented year which has seen the CoViD-19 virus spread like wildfire through the whole world, several times through. It has destroyed many lives,...
The news reports that many Chinese from Malaysia and China who work in Singapore were very upset that they could not return home to celebrate Chinese New Year with their family members. One mother who after giving birth came to Singapore has not seen her child for one year. The...
On 28 February this year, the fourth Sunday of the month, the church will have our first gospel Sunday. While the speaker tries to make every Sunday’s sermon relevant for everyone (and every Sunday message is relevant to even unbelievers), the messages on a usual Sunday speaks more to Christians...