Dear BPCWAians, Over the past 2 Sundays, I wrote about parenting God’s children. This week, I close to with a word for the young ones in our midst. Particularly, it is to the tweens, teens, and young adults who are growing into adulthood. Your privilege. Do you realise that God sets His special attention and care for you? Often, when we conduct infant baptisms, we read from 1Cor 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. We do not teach baptismal regeneration and salvation. But God clearly tells us that the children who grow up with parents who bring
Read moreDear BPCWAians, “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.” (Genesis 18:19) The need for parents to prepare themselves. We are very familiar with the numerous Biblical commands of parents to children, scattered throughout the Old and New Testaments. This underlies the fact that God calls parents into account for the upbringing of their children. When young, physical parenting is more pressing, though the baby is already absorbing what is happening around him. By the time he reaches the toddler stage, the child would have
Read moreDear BPCWAians, We recently conducted a family seminar titled “Preparing to Parent Teens”. Over the past years, our focus has been on the younger children, particularly in the baby to toddler stage. But as I look around our church, God has blessed us with many children, and some of them are indeed beginning to grow up. Years pass quickly, and we often exclaim at how some of the children have suddenly shot up (certainly more obvious after we returned from the COVID lockdown when we didn’t see the children for several months). The importance of spiritual parenting. I would say that the government has a good system of preparing the parent to be for the upcoming baby. There is support
Read moreDear BPCWAians, We thank God for seeing us through the Triennial Election and demonstrating His will in the men who will serve Him in the church session for the next 3 years. In our Constitution Article 13.4, the session will be “formally installed into office at a Service of Consecration to be held on an appropriate Lord’s Day soon after election”. As you witnessed this during our Worship service today, you may have wondered why do we have this event, since the election has already been conducted and the results announced? Why we have a Service of Consecration. As I covered in my earlier pastorals, God does intend for His church to be served by men that He appoints to
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