{"id":93700,"date":"2025-09-16T08:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/?p=93700"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:42:15","slug":"sep-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/sep-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"2025\u5e749\u6708"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"93700\" class=\"elementor elementor-93700\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-509857b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"509857b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48c4556 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"48c4556\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Fellow Alumni,<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is such a joy to know that you and I are rooted and grounded in God\u2019s love, just as Paul had written more than 2000 years ago:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b><i>\u201cThat according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith \u2013 that you being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.\u201d (Ephesians 3:16-19)<\/i><\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I reread this Scripture. I was reminded of an ancient hymn, parts of which can be traced back almost a thousand years, to a Jewish hymn in Aramaic by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, who lived in Germany.<\/span><\/p><p><b><i>\u201cThe Love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell,<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>It goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell;<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave his Son to win;<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>His erring child he reconciled and pardoned from his sin.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p><p><b><i>\u201cO love of God, how rich and pure!<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>How measureless and strong!<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>It shall forevermore endure,<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>The saints and angels\u2019 song.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p><p><b><i>\u201cCould we with ink the ocean fill and were the skies of parchment made,<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>Were ev\u2019ry stalk on earth a quill, and ev\u2019ry man a scribe by trade,<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry,<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i>Nor could the scroll contain the whole tho\u2019 stretched from sky to sky.\u201d (Frederick M Lehman, 1868-1953).<\/i><\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can never fully grasp God\u2019s love for us. It is both unsearcheble and\u00a0 immeasurable! It is both powerful and terrifying! It reforms us and transforms us. It embraces us and chastises us. It sustains us and renews us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b><i>\u201cBehold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called sons [and daughters] of God.\u201d (1 John 3:1).<\/i><\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am eternally grateful to my Father-God for his immeasurable and unspeakable love for me. I am thankful to our Lord Jesus Christ for rooting and grounding me in his love. I am comforted by the Holy Spirit who not only indwells me but also empowers me to do all that he calls me to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>As we enter the last quarter of 2025, may each of us echo the words of St Paul:\u00a0<\/p><p><b><i>\u201cIn all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present not things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d (Romans 8:37-39).<\/i><\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit rest and abide with us all, now and forever. <br \/>Amen<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd66091 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fd66091\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u4f55\u7b49\u559c\u4e50\uff0c\u56e0\u4f60\u6211\u540c\u5728\u795e\u7684\u7231\u91cc\u624e\u6839\u3001\u7a33\u56fa\uff0c\u6b63\u5982\u4fdd\u7f57\u5728\u4e24\u5343\u591a\u5e74\u524d\u6240\u5199\u4e0b\u7684\u90a3\u6837\uff1a<br \/>\n\u201c\u6c42\u4ed6\u6309\u7740\u4ed6\u8363\u8000\u7684\u4e30\u76db\uff0c\u501f\u7740\u4ed6\u7684\u7075\uff0c\u7528\u5927\u80fd\u4f7f\u4f60\u4eec\u5185\u5728\u7684\u4eba\u521a\u5f3a\u8d77\u6765\uff0c\u4f7f\u57fa\u7763\u501f\u7740\u4f60\u4eec\u7684\u4fe1\uff0c\u4f4f\u5728\u4f60\u4eec\u5fc3\u91cc\uff0c\u4f7f\u4f60\u4eec\u65e2\u7136\u5728\u7231\u4e2d\u624e\u6839\u5efa\u57fa\uff0c <\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":93705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-93700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sbconnect","tag-sbconnect2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95451,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93700\/revisions\/95451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbc.edu.sg\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}