Tết signifies a new beginning and focuses on family reunions and ancestral reverence. Family is foremost important to the people of Vietnam. So similar to the teachings of Christ, we are to honour and respect our parents and be a filial child, fulfilling our duties to take care of our family.
When we have Christmas in our hearts, we are celebrating Christmas peace and joy in our daily living. We have welcome the Prince of Peace into our lives and fulfilling the announcement of the Angel - Immanuel, God is with us.
The International Christian Fellowship Pastor, Rev Leslie Lim, and leaders together with the ICF Family wish everyone a Blessed Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) is one of the important feasts in the Bible. It is a time for the people of God to gather together to remember God's deliverance and provision in the desert in the past. Yet there is hope that is we are to look ahead to that promised Messianic age when all nations will come to Jerusalem to worship the LORD.
I am wondering how the Israelites were feeling when they were about to exit Egypt. Did they reminisce about their lives in Egypt for the past decades, not to mention four centuries had passed? How much longsufferings and lamentations they must have cried to their God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when they were made slaves?
As we celebrate Jesus Christ's Resurrection, it is God’s way of authenticating who the Lord Jesus is. He is the One who makes sense of our lives and gives meaning to life itself.