Month: January 2025

When Families Fail

Dear BPCWA worshipper, During Chinese New Year, there is a great emphasis on the family. Families come together for reunion dinners. For example, in China, it is a time when people will travel even long distances to be with their families. Every culture has its occasions where family reunions are treasured. This is no surprise, because in a sense everyone comes from families, by God’s design. But by His design, there is a very important role that families are intended to fulfill. Human beings have that sense deep down in us, whether we realise it or not. God’s intent for families. However, as Christians, “togetherness” and “closeness” alone are not God’s only intent for families. The fifth commandment uses God’s

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Do You Have an Idol Factory?

Dear BPCWA worshipper, Perhaps many would gasp at the title of this pastoral, or at least think it is most ridiculous to suggest that you would even open such a factory. I, a Christian, own an idol factory? We walk past shops selling images of false gods and are probably grieved by them. However, if we are honest with ourselves, these shops can be the physical representation of what is in man’s heart. Who is God to you? In his Institutes, Calvin remarked that “the human mind is, so to speak, a perpetual forge of idols. . . men are forging gods at will” (1:11.8). Forge is the process whereby a blacksmith forms, makes, or shapes something. In this case,

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Watchnight Service: Live With No Regrets

Dear BPCWA worshipper, I want to use this pastoral to recap the message God directed our hearts to during the Watchnight Service as we closed off 2024. I hope we will all take to heart the lessons God gave us through His Word as we entered 2025. The message was from 2 Timothy 4:6-8, “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all

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The Only Way to Have a Blessed New Year

Dear BPCWA worshipper, This is the first Lord’s Day of 2025. Soon after the celebration of Christmas on 25th December, we ended yet another year. Each passing year marks another year checked off of our lives and this world’s existence. Yet another year was ushered in at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday as 2024 closed and 1st January 2025 started. The uncertainty of life. While we often wish for a good year, 2024 ended on a rather ominous note for the world. The last days of 2024 were marked by tragedy, with 2 plane crashes happening a few days apart, in Kazakhstan and Korea. With flying becoming a normal occurrence in modern life, those who boarded their planes probably

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