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!
Luke 16:19-31 records an account about how a rich man died and went to hell. A beggar named Lazarus also died but went to heaven. Whilst in hell, this rich man saw Abraham (Abraham was the ancestor of God’s chosen nation, Israel) in heaven and Lazarus resting in Abraham’s bosom....
The church organises a gospel rally every year. This year is no exception. You may know that this year’s gospel rally will be held in church, on 4th of September, 8pm. The theme for this year’s gospel rally is “The Love of God.” We are privileged to have someone familiar,...
Today, our nation celebrates 50 years of nation building. The organizing committee has come up with a logo SG50 to commemorate this special milestone in our nation’s history. According to the committee, SG50 represents the little red dot that we have come to know as home. The logo celebrates the...
An ex-drug offender, Mr Tee gave his supervisor, Mr Wong, a surprise by nominating him as Model Supervisor. Mr Tee was imprisoned for eight years for drug offences. After being released from jail, he could not get used to working life in a regular workplace. Mr Wong encouraged him and...
Why is life filled with so much pain and suffering? The Bible tells us that this is the consequence of sin-we have sinned against the most Holy God as the Bible says, “for all have sinned” (Rom 3:23). As a result, we must all one day die: “for the wages...
Singapore celebrates 50 years of nation building this year. Since the beginning of this year, there has been numerous activities island wide to commemorate this special occasion. A few local Christian churches have also organized a ‘Jubilee Day of Prayer’ at the National Stadium on 5th July. It was not...
The author stresses the importance of child discipline from the heart instead of just addressing the behaviour. By addressing only the behaviour, we have overlooked the more needed and importance of addressing the child’s heart. For out of the heart comes the issue of life. Although discipline is important, the...
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....