Dear BPCWA worshipper, It is our 39th Church Anniversary already! Thank God for His mercies and grace to have seen us through all the ups and downs and for preserving us. The fact that we are still functioning as a church and seeking to be faithful to God today is due entirely to His longsuffering, patience, and leading alone. Time has flown by very quickly and will not wait for any man. Many things can happen through that time. The important question we must ask ourselves is not how long the church has been. This is because every year that passes is either a year of doing well for the Lord, or a year wasted. So, rather, we must be

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, We cannot earn salvation by obedience to the law of God, but when we are saved through the Covenant of Grace, obedience is expected by God in the covenant. The underlying requirement in the Covenant of Works is obedience. Just because man failed to obey God in the Covenant of Works and fallen man hates obedience thereafter does not make obedience something bad. Let us not forget, even our Saviour, Jesus Christ, “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered” (Heb 5:8). Obedience is the priority. Obedience is what pleases God, “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams” (1Sa 15:22). But we

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, Perhaps some may groan at the title of this pastoral. The fallen nature does not like obedience. Contemporary thinking disdains obedience because they view anyone who promotes obedience as being self-centred and autocratic. What is vaunted today instead is individualism and independent thinking. We live in a society that promotes individual rights and liberties, aka “I must have a right to do whatever I want” and “be my authentic self” from the heart. We chafe against the need to obey and being “strict” is viewed negatively. The philosophies in the world are working overtime against anything that sets boundaries and rules. However, Christians must not undermine its importance. Instead, we must see obedience in biblical light. Israel

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, I will be recapping during worship service the lesson the children learned during our recent Holiday Bible Program. At the same time, the theme for last year’s HBP, “Truly Truthful”, comes to mind. We often consider truthfulness as the absence of a falsehood. However, there is another aspect of truthfulness that I want us to consider in today’s pastoral, and it is the importance of an honest heart.  A dishonest heart. Created in perfection, man became sinners in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve fell. The effect of that was immediate. Before that, Adam could commune with God face to face and was perfectly satisfied to receive His commands. But sin changed all that and

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