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The Alumni & Church Relations office (ACRO) sends email newsletters featuring alumni impact, alumni events announcements and college updates to alumni monthly. If you aren¡¯t already on the list, update your profile?with us to receive the newsletter.

2024

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Dr. Violet James

Apr 2024

Let me share some nuggets I reread from Scripture this week. Jesus taught his disciples precious truths and drew amazing lessons from his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7).

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Dr. Violet James

Mar 2024

Blessed Easter! Our Lord is Risen! Hallelujah!
For the past several weeks of Lent, leading to Easter, in meditating on Christ and the Cross, my heart is filled with gratitude even as I once again survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died!

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Dr. Violet James

Feb 2024

I have been thinking about the importance of prayer and the template Jesus gave his disciples in Matthew 6:9-13. As we examine our private and corporate prayers, very often they are for physical things more than for spiritual. We seldom ask God to help us live holy and blameless lives, lives of integrity that please our LORD! Often it¡¯s all about – Give us this day our daily bread!?

Yes, we must ask God for the things we need and thank him for his bountiful provision daily – our daily bread, our daily safety, our daily health, our daily well-being. But shouldn¡¯t we also ask for our spiritual welfare?

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Dr. Violet James

Jan 2024

We have just welcomed the new year and soon we will be celebrating the Lunar New Year! As we focus on our walk with the Lord this year, l would like to share an article that Pastor Edmund Chan wrote recently to his friends and mentees on Spiritual Dryness. In this article Pastor Ed speaks of the “paradox of an outward busyness and an inward spiritual barrenness which is worrisome”. We may seem to be bearing much fruit but in actuality we may be truly barren.

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2023

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Dr. Violet James

Dec 2023

2024! What will it look like for each of us? Maybe for some it will be celebration of weddings, promotions, awards, either your own, your children¡¯s, or even your grandchildren¡¯s! For some others it may be new ministries, new mission fields, transitions and retirement. Yet for others it could be challenging times ahead …..

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Dr. Violet James

Nov 2023

As I meditated on these truths, verse 29 jumped out for me! We too like Paul, must ¡®toil¡¯ and struggle with the work that God has entrusted to us. We must work hard and do all that we can in our service to God. But the wonderful truth is that the energy that comes to us as we toil, is not ours! It is from God! It is God in Christ……

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Dr. Violet James

Oct 2023

The recent atrocities is a wakeup call for the whole world: for the wicked perpetrators, for Israel, the Church of Christ, and the entire world. God is calling us all to repent, turn from our wicked ways, and seek his forgiveness……

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Dr. Violet James

Sept 2023

My personal take home from the retreat was that as I serve the Lord in this last leg of my journey on earth, I want to press on even more intentionally, love the Lord more dearly, continue to serve Him from a deep overflow of gratitude for all He has done for me……

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Dr. Violet James

August 2023

My heart is deeply grieved as I realize several of our alumni are carrying heavy burdens and going through deep pain ¨C personal, family, ministry and other realms of challenges. In times like these, I feel so helpless and powerless! But……

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Dr. Violet James

July 2023

I am so thankful for this incredible privilege of belonging to God the Creator of the universe, not just as his creation, which I am, but……..

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Dr. Violet James

June 2023

There is an old hymn,?Just As I Am, that my late dad used at all his evangelistic rallies and crusades around the world. Each time I sing this hymn……

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Dr. Violet James

May 2023

The recent Alumni Retreat was a historic moment where over 250 alumni from 21 countries met at the YMCA and the YWCA for 3 days and 2 nights……

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Dr. Violet James

Apr 2023

Dear Fellow Alumni, May I share some musings from the Holy Week and Easter that has just passed. An old song I first learnt while

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Dr. Violet James

Mar 2023

A prayer from Paul to you: For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth

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Dr. Violet James

Feb 2023

Today, I am thinking particularly of alumni who are weary and heavy-laden with many cares…

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Dr. Violet James

Jan 2023

Blessed 2023 and also a blessed Lunar New Year to all our Chinese alumni! As I was reminiscing…

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Dr. Violet James

Nov 2022

The hymn writer of this song, Joseph Scriven (b. 1819, d.1886) knew Jesus intimately. He experienced…

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Dr. Violet James

Oct 2022

Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Christus and Sola Gratia are Reformation slogans that were declared…

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Dr. Violet James

Sep 2022

I am more and more convinced the older I get, that I can only do all things through…

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Dr. Violet James

Aug 2022

Blessed 70th?anniversary of our alma mater! What a privilege to be alumni of the Singapore Bible College! I…

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Dr. Violet James

Jul 2022

The song?Jesus Christ My Living Hope?has been my anchor these past weeks as so many of my friends kept marching into heaven in…

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Dr. Violet James

Jun 2022

As we anticipate SBC¡¯s 70th anniversary celebrations in August, I am filled with…

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Dr. Violet James

May 2022

Recently several friends of mine or relatives of my friends went to heaven. While…

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Dr. Violet James

Apr 2022

Easter is the greatest event and celebration in the Christian calendar! It is a powerful reminder…

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Dr. Violet James

Mar 2022

My heart is deeply grieved for the people of Ukraine and I am sure yours is too. Many prayers from around…

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Dr. Violet James

Feb 2022

Daniel in the Old Testament?purposed in his heart that he will not be defiled?by the things…

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Jul 2021

We thank God for Love Singapore which prepares a 40 Day Prayer for Christians in Singapore every year…

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May 2021

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every…

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Apr 2021

Recently the?Christian world was shocked?at yet another leader who stated that he is no longer a Christian!…

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Mar 2021

We are in the month of Lent which will culminate in the Passion (passion means suffering) Week. I trust…

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Feb 2021

We celebrated the lunar new year unlike no other new year as it was in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic with…

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Nov 2020

John was taken to heaven in the Spirit by the resurrected Christ. There he saw through an opened door…

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Oct 2020

The psalmist as he talked to himself, was actually encouraging himself to?praise God?for who he is…

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Sep 2020

Recently one of our alumni celebrated his 50th?birthday. He chose to take half a day to commune with…

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Jun 2020

just to know that my God is unchanging, that He is faithful, and I can place my hope in Him! The songwriter…

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May 2020

The disciples of Jesus prayed earnestly for the will of God to be accomplished as they waited in expectancy for the coming of…

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