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!
A man dashed in front of a father and his then four year old son and resulted in that boy being pushed against a car door. That man did not stop but continued walking. The father confronted the man and an argument broke out and vulgar words were exchanged. This...
A recent newspaper article recently reported that a man and a woman cheated at least 8 people of thousands of dollars by pretending to be civil servants . They offered to help them claim government benefits such as income tax rebates and baby bonuses. They would instruct the victims to...
Recently, the Ministry of Health issued a 38-page booklet that contains guidelines to help general practitioners manage gambling disorders which include breakdown of significant relationships, difficulty in managing work and studies, financial troubles, as well as physical and mental health deterioration. Several observations made by medical authorities in response to...
His conversion not only saved his soul, it smashed his dreams of fame and honour for himself. His one pressing purpose became to “plan his life to please his Lord.” In 1809, the same year he joined the Congregational church, he became burdened to become a missionary. He found some...
Adoniram Judson. American Baptist missionary, lexicographer, and Bible translator to Burma. Born in Massachusetts in 1788. Helped form the American Baptist Missionary Union. In 1834 completed a translation of the whole Bible into the Burmese language. During the Anglo-Burmese War, he spent twenty-one months in prison. From 1845-1847, after thirty-four...
Angels rejoice when a sinner repents and enters the kingdom of God. We rejoice with Yu Jie and Zhongfu who were baptised last week. We also welcome Cun Liang into Tree of Life Christian Church. I pray for every Christian in Tree of Life Christian Church, especially for those who...
Preacher Yap Lay Choo is a missionary to Cypress and she pastors a church there. God has used her in many ways and she has led many, especially mainland Chinese who work there, to Christ. Just recently, she wrote to us: “Dear Pastor Tan, Committee Members of Tree of Life...
A teenager was training a year ago to get into the national track team for the Youth Olympic Games held here. Although he did not make the final cut, his former coach said he had the potential to become a national runner. His polytechnic coach said he did not have...
How wonderful is God’s love? “But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8): A mother might die for her son, a husband for her wife but for will that same mother or husband die for a stranger who...
An ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland shut down hundreds of flights in northern Britain and elsewhere in Europe. Last year, the Icelandic volcano eruption led to no fly zones that stranded 10 million passengers and cost the air industry an estimated US$1.7 billion in lost revenue. Despite man’s...