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!

Not a Dead End

After Jesus was crucified to the cross by Jewish leaders, the disciples went into hiding for fear of being persecuted by them (John 20:19). They had spent the last few years walking closely with Jesus and fervently working for the revival of Israel. Only a few days ago, Jerusalem even...

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What a Wonderful Saviour!

Soon all around, the world will remember the death and crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday and the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Singapore, being a multi-racial and multi-religion country, has designated Good Friday as a public holiday. The week leading up to Good Friday is known...

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A Plane beyond Control

On 10 March, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashed, killing all 157 onboard. This crash followed the crash of Lion Air, also a Boeing 737 Max plane, which killed 189 people onboard. The BBC website reads, The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, said early findings about the cause...

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A Seared Conscience

Recently, thousands of people in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, were poisoned. All 111 schools in that area were also closed. The cause was the dumping of toxic chemicals into River Kim Kim by a used tyre processing company. These chemicals pose serious health hazards including causing cancer and damaging red blood...

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Other Important Things

For the past several months the church has been discussing and raising funds to move to a new place in Woodlands. The church committee is very comforted not only because you have given and lent to the church generously. More importantly, you have shown by your giving that you care...

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Creating new boundaries in unity

Before we knew it. Tree of Life Christian Church is entering its 10th year. I am honoured to witness how this church developed from nothing to its present state: from renting a small room from another church for service to owning two units of our own; from a purely Chinese...

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A New Gospel Outreach

Our church will soon be on the move to the north of Singapore for gospel outreach. We are excited about the move for the fact that we can reach out to a different segment of the population with the gospel.  We have easy access to the new location from the...

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Dwight L. Moody: Revivalist with a Common Touch

The following article is taken from https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/evangelistsandapologists/dwight-l-moody.html With his boundless physical energy, natural shrewdness, self-confidence, and eternal optimism, Dwight Lyman Moody could have become a Gilded Age industrial giant like John D. Rockefeller or Jay Gould. Instead, he became one of the great evangelists of the nineteenth century. Pony rides...

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A Rare Opportunity?

Ben Davis, an 18-year-old had signed professional terms with English Premier League club Fulham in July last year. He is the first Singaporean footballer to do so with a top-tier English club. He applied for national service (NS) deferment, which was also supported by The Football Association of Singapore (FAS)....

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Facing Life’s Red Sea

I believe we have all read the Bible story of Moses leading the Israelites across the Red Sea. Whenever this story is told, everyone would imagine the scene of how God divided the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to cross over dry ground safely, and then making the waters...

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