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!

Church Family Day – Building Strong Friendship

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:  If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.  Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how...

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Baptism and Transfer of Membership

We are thankful to God for many members and friends who have been kind in helping this church in various ministries.  You have been an encouragement to all.  For those of you who are not members of this church, I understand that it takes time to adapt and find a...

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Spiritual Exercises

Have you ever wondered at the skills sportsmen display during competitions?  I am often amazed by how a soccer player dribbles past an opposing player.  I’m also fascinated by the accuracy with which a badminton player drops a shuttle cock to a particular spot from an almost impossible position.  Is...

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The Sacred Vocation of Mothers

From the moment we were born into this world, our mothers devoted wholeheartedly their tender loving care to look after us.  We grew up under their careful protection.  Back when we were still young, we would always run to our mother when we were afraid.  Her gentle voice and comforting...

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God’s Word, Our Success in Our Christian Life

“Ten-round spelling final has crowd spell-bound”, was the headline of the national spelling competition. One of the finalists challenged the judges twice and eventually emerged as the winner of the RHB-The Straits times National Spelling Championship.  The tense final ran for about two hours and through 10 rounds.  The champion...

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Earthquakes

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...

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Fourth Church Anniversary

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...

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Dengue Fever and Sin

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...

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The Recent Annual Congregational Meeting

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...

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The Lord Jesus has Risen

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...

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