Month: July 2019

Camp reflections (III) – Continuing Steadfastly in Doctrine and in Fellowship

Dear BPCWAians, After having covered the morning devotion messages from the camp, I will briefly summarise the messages preached by our guest speaker, Rev (Dr) Jeffrey Khoo. The thematic messages were from the church’s theme verse, Acts 2:42, “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.” We shall review continuing stedfastly in the following areas: In the apostles’ doctrine. The early Christians in Acts 2 had just believed in the gospel and been saved. The gospel is just the beginning of our Christian walk, but we must end well too. There is more to Christianity than the gospel, and our faith must continue to grow even after knowing the gospel.

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Camp reflections (II) – Exceeding wisdom of the conies, locusts, and spider

Dear BPCWAians, We have learnt from the preparedness of the ant. Let us now reflect on the remaining exceeding wise creatures in Prov 30:26-28, “The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; (27) The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; (28) The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.” Conies: Precaution. Take precautions! Be safe! The conies (rock hyraxes) know they are weak against larger predators. We need to know we are feeble and we can fall spiritually. They climb to great heights to live where most predators would not be able to get to them. We need to be willing to

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Camp reflections (I) – Exceeding wisdom of the ants

Dear BPCWAians, As we have just concluded the English Family Camp, it is useful to summarize the messages that were preached at the camps. After spending so many days and nights receiving so many messages, we should not just walk away and forget some of the key lessons. Also, as a church, the summaries for the Devotions and Thematic messages would also be helpful for those who did not manage to attend. In this week’s  Pastoral,    I will begin with the Morning Devotion messages where I preached from Prov 30:24-27. We shall review Prov 30:24-25 first, “There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: (25) The ants are a people not strong,

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Ensuring Sincere Repentance

Dear BPCWAians, Over the past weeks, we’ve looked at false confessions, and how to recognise if our repentance is false. We will conclude this week with a question that several have had – how do I know if I am repentant and how do I ensure sincere repentance? What if I do not have brokenness and tears? Some people have the notion that repentance is genuine only if it were accompanied with heart wrenching emotions and much tears. Certainly, there may be times when the grief is so acute that tears flow, but sadness and tears alone are not signs of true repentance. While God does associate repentance with a broken heart and contrite spirit, as mentioned last week, He

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