Month: January 2020

Don’t be shipwrecked! Why this church theme?

Dear BPCWAians, At the start of the year, we announced the church theme for this year – 1Tim 1:19, “Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck”. Having church themes. As has been our practice, our theme is the focus for the year. It also sets the theme for the church camps that year as well. It is something that is important for the church as a whole to focus on. Hence, the year’s theme is prayerfully selected to reflect the needs for the congregation as a whole. In some years, this can be a bit more focussed on the individual’s personal walk. In other years, it is something for the church

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Holiday Bible Program – Will our children believe?

Dear BPCWAians, Last week, we concluded our Holiday Bible Program for students. This year, I decided to have the Holiday Bible Program closely aligned to the theme for our church. The students coming to the class studied on   the theme “I Believe”, taken from 2Tim 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them. It is important that we all read this Pastoral so that we all know what we are trying to instil in the children in BPCWA. As parents and individual worshipers, we all have a part to help reinforce the lessons in God’s children. The reason for the theme. We thank God

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Applying your heart to wisdom

Dear BPCWAians, Last week, I wrote to encourage every one of us to make every day count for God. In Psalm 90, Moses gave us 3 compelling reasons why we should number our days. We must have the right perspective of time, deal with our sins, and fear God’s wrath if I should continue living in sin. What do we do to make our days count as we number our days? We must apply our hearts unto wisdom – So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom (Ps 90:12). To help us to remember, I used the acronym DAYS – Desire, Acknowledge, Yearn, Serve. Desire unbroken fellowship. Ps 90:13-14 Return, O LORD, how

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Will you number your days in 2020?

Dear BPCWAians, Today is the first Lord’s Day of 2020. The turn of the century into 2000 is still quite clear in my mind, and it seems difficult to believe that it is now already 20 years later, into 2020. For some fellowship groups, we had  a time of reflections to close off last year.  How did we spend 2019? In fact, if we take  it a bit further back, how has our last 10 or 20 years been? There  is no point just passing one decade after another if each decade amounts to nothing. But to make each decade well spent starts with making each year well spent. This is what we must do each year, at the turn

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