Dear BPCWAians, We thank God for a time of rejoicing together at God’s goodness upon BPCWA as we celebrated our church’s 33rd anniversary last week. The elderlies and the young ate together as the covenantal church family gathered together, received an exhortation from God’s Word, and ended off with a meal to celebrate the occasion and close the Lord’s Day together. On a separate table sat the little children in our church – what part will they play in the history of the church in future years? What does Christ desire of us as a church? Let us be reminded from 2Cor 11:2 “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband,
Read moreDear BPWCAians, Easter is always a special time of the year. To the world, it is about Easter eggs and celebrations in partying with friends. For the believer, it must be special because of its significance concerning our beloved Saviour’s resurrection. While the typical scene year after year for many in this world is about the excitement of getting up early so that they can hit the beach, or go on a road trip, or have a big Aussie breakfast, what happened some 2000 years ago on the morning of Christ’s resurrection for His followers was markedly different. Let us revisit what some of them went through and be reminded of the blessed Sunday morning when our Lord resurrected. Our
Read moreDear BPCWAians, This Friday is Good Friday. Why is it called good? What happened that day that made it good? Good Friday is the day our Lord Jesus Christ was unjustly abused and cruelly crucified on the cross at Calvary. When we read Isaiah 53:3-5, we can scarcely even begin to fathom the rejection, despise, and pain the Lord Jesus went through, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) But he
Read moreDear BPCWAians, I wonder if you have been taking the armour of God seriously. I wonder what goes through your mind when God says, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph 6:12). Have the recent Lord’s day messages been just another series of messages to you that you just hear and forget? Given the powers engaged in the spiritual realm of our daily walk, I feel a burden to re-emphasize the seriousness of needing to persevere and to take heed to ensure we have on the whole armour of God so that we will withstand, and stand.
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