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!
Today is a new beginning for Tree of Life Christian Church. After having enjoyed or endured the bilingual (Mandarin and English) mode of Sunday Worship Service, today is the first Sunday where the Mandarin and the English speaking people will worship in separate congregations. This is a good change. People...
A new born baby is very lovely. Although a mother may not be able to understand the little noises that her baby makes, these little noises can melt a mother’s heart. Imagine, however, after 10 years, this child can say nothing except make these little baby noises. Should this happen,...
On 31 May, the brothers and sisters of Tree of Life Christian Church, regardless of their age, ‘mightily’ took the first important step in our community outreach work. Everyone wore the church’s ‘uniform’ to distribute gifts at the designated flats and introduced Tree of Life Christian Church to the residents....
The author emphasises the importance of setting goals for our children. More importantly, parents should re-examine the motive behind setting these goals. The motives in setting goals for our children must be done in the light of the chief end of man – that is to glorify God and enjoy...
Matt 28:18-20 contains what Christians usually call the Great Commission: “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them...
Every Christian must be actively doing gospel work. Employees must report to work every day. If not, they are lazy and deserve to be dismissed. School children must attend classes and do homework. If not, these children are lazy and deserve to be disciplined by the teacher and parents. In...
Jesus commands us to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matt 28:19) At another time, Jesus tells his disciples more specifically, that they are to be His witness, that is, to tell people about Jesus in “Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the...
With the exception of Sunday worship, we do not have many opportunities to interact together as one brethren in our regular church life. Our church organises a Bible Camp or Family Day every year in order to give our brothers and sisters from different age groups and cell groups a...
The author emphasises that our role as parents goes beyond just the nature of discipline. Parents must be goal-directed. The author stresses the importance of setting biblical goals for our children. This often involves examining our goals for our children. Parents want children to be successful so they can “do...
Several weeks ago, the Straits Times carried an article whose title read “A* scholarship holder, ‘stressed, shy and insecure.” This student was a doctoral student in Stanford University. She was arrested for four counts of poisoning the drinking water of her laboratory mates. She was also caught for sabotaging the...