Dear BPCWA worshipper, We live in a society that baulks against restraints and vaunts individuality. Whether in time past or time present, pop music hits resonated with this sentiment, whether it was about doing things “My Way” or “It’s My Life”. Growing up in the world, such a mindset may also rub off on the Christian – must I live my life in this restrained way, being told how to live? The struggle. The Christian’s life and walk go against the natural man. God irresistibly draws His elect into salvation. But after salvation, walking a sanctified and consecrated life is not irresistible. We can grieve the Holy Spirit by resisting His conviction (Eph 4:30). We are constantly hounded by the

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, Every Lord’s Day, we gather together as God’s people – His church – for worship service. For most of us if not all, it is somewhat of a regular pattern of what we do, which is important and needful. We include in our monthly prayer booklet to pray that worshippers will consciously prepare themselves each week for the worship service. While we do pray from it every week in our church prayer meetings, we must honestly ask ourselves about how much thought we personally put into this preparation for the worship service. The need for preparation. As a child, I remember preparing for school. I went to school every weekday and I was familiar with school, but

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, If you’re like me, you must have exclaimed fairly frequently when looking at the children in our church “They are growing up so quickly!”. We recently had groups of people moving to the next fellowship or prayer groups as they reached a new stage in their lives. For example, those reaching Year 1 and entering school joined the children’s prayer group last week. Those moving to High School will move to the Teens’ prayer group and also begin to join the Teens’ DHW lessons as well. Students entering University have also moved into the University fellowships and graduands from the university have moved to the Regeneration group too. Besides these, we will be having our Sunday School

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, As we have been doing for the past few years, we distributed our church calendar bookmarks during the Watchnight Service. This hard copy calendar contains the dates of the Bible studies, special services, fellowships, and key church activities in the year ahead. At the same time, a soft copy of our church calendar is available online on our website for download to our calendars. It has been many years since we started doing this and I thought it would be useful for all to understand the process involved, and to recap and remind ourselves about why we have it since it may be new to those who have joined us in recent years.  The hope is that

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