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!
Within a span of about a week, several severe earthquakes hit different parts of the world. A few days ago, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked Sichuan, killing 186 people and injured 11,000 people. Before that, Iran was hit by a 7.8 Richter scale earthquake. Then Japan...
We celebrate Tree of Life Christian Church fourth anniversary today. But for what reasons do we celebrate? There are many things that we as a church should thank God for. We thank God for giving us some growth over these last four years. We are grateful to God for enabling...
Experts say Singapore may be heading for its worst dengue epidemic. Singapore’s worst brush with dengue was in 2005, when 14,000 people fell ill and 25 died. Since January, about 300 people have been infected each week and could possibly double by the middle of this year. To remove breeding...
I’m happy about how the recent Annual Congregational Meeting proceeded last Sunday. First, I thought that the church committee had prepared and conducted the meeting well despite my absence (I was and still am on study leave). For instance, the reports, especially the financial data were clearly presented. The queries...
Healthy people sometimes do not think about death. Let me exaggerate it: they think that they will not die. This is especially true for people who are doing well in life. The pleasures of this life and their healthy physical bodies can cause them to be insensitive to the fact...
My time in the University of Cape Town is very routine. I get up at about 6:30am, have a quick breakfast, do my Quiet Time, walk up the mountain (the famous Table Top Mountain is just behind the university), and reach the library before 8:30am. I’ll do my research and...
The church will meet on 31st of March 2013 for our Annual Congregational Meeting. As the government considers the church a society, we are required to hold such a meeting so that members of the church can be kept informed of the progress of the church. Elections of leaders will...
I boarded a train from Barcelona City to Sant Cugat where I stayed during my short working trip in Spain. As this was my first time in Spain, I asked a passenger sitting beside me if this train would take me to my destination. The passenger not only replied “Yes,”...
The Apostle Paul said, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.” (Romans 1:16). Every Christian who genuinely follows the Lord can testify to the truth of this...
On one Saturday afternoon, my neighbour who is an elderly man came to visit me at my hostel. He was very gentle and polite. He is an architect in charge of a construction project in the University of Cape Town. In the course of my conversation with him, he told...