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!
We thank God for our Singapore government who is constructing a social safety net to care for people who are less fortunate. These plans include providing highly subsidized housing, giving financial assistance to needy students, improving the healthcare system, etc. I appreciate these measures taken by the government: despite the...
A recent write-up on Joseph Schooling in the Straits Times reads: “The hardest thing for Joseph Schooling . . . In the call room, he’s still safe. In the cramped call room, with its eight big men with eight bigger egos; he’s “zoned out,” losing himself in music. However, Joseph...
Life in the world is like running a marathon. It requires strength, endurance, wisdom and many other resources. Thank God that Jesus is our Saviour who has promised us: “Never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you” (Heb 13:5). But the Lord not only promised us the needed...
An Indonesian housewife was a victim of her husband’s rage and jealousy for over 20 years. Her husband is in his 50s and worked as a security guard. Except fetching her children to and from school, he disallows her from going anywhere else. She was not even allowed to make...
We faced several challenges in the process of preparing for this year’s gospel rally. First, the choir. The second song “My Jesus Fair” was a difficult song. The choir had only a total of 8 practices. Not a few are singing in a choir for the first time and are...
As I am writing this, the church is busy preparing for our Annual Gospel Rally. From the beginning of July, our brothers and sisters have been diligently staying back in church for choir practice every Sunday. In fact, besides the weekly choir practices, our choir works hard by practicing the...
In a recent survey on graciousness in public transport by the LTA, 94% of 1000 commuters who were polled, said they gave up their seats to those who needed them most, while 98% said they queued up to enter the MRT trains and gave way to alighting passengers. In addition,...
The long awaited shopping mall is open—JEM. It’s big and there are lots of things to buy and eat. I was especially delighted with the food. But not too long ago, two incidents of fire broke out. In the recent one, two cars were burnt and one of them was...
Some weeks ago, some of you may have read of a sad piece of news: a young boy left home. In the course of trying to escape out of the house, he climbed out of the window and fell to his death. Besides some of his personal belongings, the police...
Every year, in the beginning of July, huge banners and signages will be erected at the void deck of my flat that announce the celebration of Singapore’s National day. As 9th of August approaches, the neighborhood will be peppered with more decorations. Many will start to display the national flag...