Dear BPCWA worshipper, We thank God that we can once again have the Camp and Retreat this year. These activities are important for our worshippers and so we endeavour to schedule them every year – even if they could only be conducted online during the COVID-19 lockdown period. I hope that worshippers will make every effort to attend these activities. The purpose of us publishing the dates on the calendars is so that you will keep them free, not schedule your travel or other plans during this time, and attend. But while we encourage attendance, just being there is not all there is to it. Such activities are times when we desire “to seek the LORD, till he come and

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, When God gives us rain, it is so that there can be fruitfulness. As we saw last week, God does not define fruitfulness only by what one does externally. Instead, God is concerned about what motivates the actions. Hence, John the Baptiser rebuked the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism saying, “Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance” (Mt 3:8). Let us not be blinded by the devil’s lie that “ignorance is bliss” e.g. thinking “Since I am already attending Bible studies, serving, regular at prayer meetings, keeping my regular quiet time, and having family worship, I need not think further about whether I am genuinely fruitful.” So, I go on blissfully without searching my own

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, Last week, we saw how God Himself compares His word to rain in Isaiah 55:10-11. Rain waters and brings growth to the earth it falls on. God rains to bring fruitfulness. Likewise, God intends His Word to bring fruit too, and accomplish His purpose. We thank God for a church that teaches His Word faithfully. Even as we do so, we must be conscious too that God has a purpose for that. It isn’t just a duty for the church pastor to do. As the Word is preached every Lord’s Day and at every Bible study, we must understand then that God intends it to bring fruit. That is God’s desired purpose. However, even if it does

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, With the heavy downpour last Sunday, many of us were quick to thank God for finally bringing some much-needed rain to WA. Living in an agricultural country, we realise the importance of rainfall to the farmers. While Autumn does tend to mean that the trees begin to bare as the leaves fall, the recent rains that we have experienced have also brought with them a tinge of green amidst the browned landscape around us. Despite our best efforts over the past months to water manually and to use our sprinklers, the lawn outside our church stayed stubbornly brown as the grass refused to grow. Now after the recent heavy rains provided on and off by God, the

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, WA went through a period over the past eight months of some record-breaking drought conditions. Month after month, we were faced with record-high temperatures and record-low rainfall. With the lowest rainfall in more than 50 years, our fertile southwest region has had its dams depleted. As autumn came 3 months ago, there was a bit of a respite from the summer highs that we had experienced. But still, it didn’t feel very much like the normal autumns that we had been used to. So, it was with joy that some may have exclaimed last Lord’s Day that winter has finally come, as we experienced chillier temperatures and a smattering of rainfall. Even as you read this today,

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