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!
As a teenager, I spent a lot of time out in the sea, canoeing, sailing or riding a motor boat. During one of my canoeing trips with my schoolmates, we faced very strong undercurrents. The sea was choppy. No matter how hard we paddled, we did not seem to be...
The article below is taken from https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/martyrs/thomas-cranmer.html. “Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them “ Thomas Cranmer, seated in an Oxford cell before a plain wooden desk, weary...
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; the old has gone, the new is here” (2 Cor 5:17). If you humble yourself before the Lord Jesus Christ, acknowledge that you are a sinner, ask Jesus to forgive your sins, and receive Him as your Lord and...
Having Just returned from the church camp, my heart is filled with thanksgiving and joy. First, I want to thank the Lord for enabling me to understand the struggles of Jeremiah through Pastor. I see in Jeremiah his faithfulness to God despite a life that is filled with sufferings. I...
Last Sunday, I emphasised that if we were to benefit from the church camp, we must have a good heart, “A Heart with Good Soil.” Then the Word of God can bear fruit in you. For that you must prepare a heart that says: “I will obey God’s Word no...
In about two weeks’ time, about 90-100 of us will be going to Johore Bahru for Church Camp 2018. We thank God for the Camp Committee for their many hours of faithful and hard work to make our stay there a fruitful one. Manpower and hours of planning are required...
The article below is taken from https://banneroftruth.org/ukb/resources/articles/2016/robert-morrison-1782-1834/. One can imagine what both men had to go through in those days, coupled with all the hardships and external powers resisting the work. Yet, the Lord raised up these men to persevere in the midst of immense difficulties and lay a foundation...
The article below is taken from https://banneroftruth.org/ukb/resources/articles/2016/robert-morrison-1782-1834/. On May 12, 1807, he sailed on the Trident and arrived in Canton on September 6, that same year. He took residence in the American section of a restricted enclave where the Chinese government allowed foreign traders to live and conduct business with...
The article below is taken from https://banneroftruth.org/ukb/resources/articles/2016/robert-morrison-1782-1834/. The great English poet and hymn writer William Cowper wrote the following well before Robert Morrison left for China: Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtues, temper, understanding and taste that lifts him into life and...
As we remember God’s mercy and goodness to Tree of Life Christian Church, let us also resolve to do even greater things for God. The article below is taken from https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/missionaries/william-carey.html. At a meeting of Baptist leaders in the late 1700s, a newly ordained minister stood to argue for the...