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!
Every Christian must learn how to share his/her testimony of salvation, that is, how he/she became a Christian. God can use your sharing to lead or attract someone to Christ. The length of your testimony should not be more than 3 minutes long when read out at the usual speed...
Tree of Life Christian Church will hold its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 27th June 2010, Saturday. We will elect deacons who will form the church committee responsible to the government and who will lead the church with the pastor. The bible in 1 Timothy 3:8-13 lists several criteria:...
At a five-day Singapore Food Expo, a seller was caught for selling bear gall bladder that came. It was priced at $700. An undercover from a wild-life rescue group made enquiries at the stall and video-taped the exchange. It is illegal to possess any bear parts, whether genuine or fake...
I believe most of us at one time or another would face problems related to work, tiresome relationship problems, marital problems, uncertainties about the future, health problems, etc. I had my fair share too and there were times when I did not quite know how to solve them. But I...
Hurling hurtful words in a moment of anger or gossiping about people you dislike, rebutting when you are criticized by others, these are all reactions that can get you into trouble or cause trouble to others. If you are someone who is quick to react or must react when provoked,...
When the Ministry of Education mentioned the possibility of lowering down the weightage of Mother Tongue, it caused quite a commotion. People wrote to the press. Some even gathered several thousands of signatures to oppose such a possible change. Mothers who were capitalizing on this subject to raise the aggregate...
When you go home today, I would suggest that you take a look at several photographs: photographs taken when you were a little child and a photograph of your parents’ when you were that little child. You will probably notice how small and helpless you were. You will also see...
Just recently, names of several persons whom I know personally got published in the newspapers. The news, unfortunately, were bad news. One person hurt her maid and was sentenced to several months imprisonment. Another drove an SBS bus and killed a maid. For the latter news, I have yet to...
Today is the first anniversary of Tree of Life Christian Church. It started off with a group of about 10 people. Today, which is about a year later, we have a few more people who regularly join us for worship. Numerically, we are still a small church. Yet we have...
Death can be scary because when death sets in, a happy family is destroyed. It is scary because you have to walk this path on your own: no matter how much your wife or husband loves you, no matter how much your children love you, none of them can accompany...