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!
In a month’s time we will enter the month of December. With that, we come to the end of the year 2016. This means also that we are a year older. Are you also a year more mature spiritually? If you have not grown spiritually when you come to the...
The long anticipated election of the American president has finally come to fruition. In the course of the election, various people have provided analyses of the percentage of supporters for each candidate, election strategies, and the voters’ sentiments on the ground. The election race of the two presidential candidates reached...
Romans 1:17: “For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” The righteous shall live by faith – that was the truth that Martin Luther discovered for the salvation...
Some weeks ago, the Straits Times reported that a Primary 5 school boy committed suicide when he did not meet the expectations of his mother. The boy scored 50, 20.5, 53.8, and 12 marks out of 100 respectively for his English, Mathematics, Chinese and Higher Chinese. Earlier, the boy lied...
On 31st October 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the church of Wittenberg. His theses refuted some of the most erroneous teachings of the Roman Catholic church of the 16th century. This Protestant Reformation later swept across Europe and revived the Christian world: it started...
The next Lord’s Day, 30th October, we shall remember Reformation Day which happened some 500 years ago on 31st October 1517. Why should we commemorate an event that happened so many years ago? This is like asking why we should study history. The reason is that the mistakes human beings...
The recent PSLE and “N” level examinations are over. Regardless the results, students and parents can now breathe a sigh of relief after having worked hard at preparing and taking the examinations. Students who will be taking the “O” and “A” level examinations are still working hard at their preparations. ...
1 Kings 11:29-35 About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country, and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore...
I wrote last week that one of the highest praises a Christian can receive is to be called a godly person. Jerry Bridges, the author of “Practice of Godliness” reminds us that godliness is a result of a devotion to God. This devotion to God comes from a desire for...
The Chinese and English cell groups have been studying (and analysing!) the book written by Jerry Bridges, “The Practice of Godliness.” The author correctly comments: “There is no higher compliment that can be paid to a Christian than to call him a godly person. He might be a conscientious parent,...