The Gathering Sermons

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 12th April, 2026 Passage: Genesis 1 Sermon Summary: In the beginning, there was nothing but God. He created the heavens and the earth ex nihilo , out of nothing—brought order to the earth that was without form and void. Scripture tells us that God created the world in six days: time (the evening and morning) on the first; the land and sk...

Series: / Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 5th April 2026 Passage: Colossians 1:13-14 Sermon Summary: “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ…For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one m...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 29th March 2026 Passage: Acts 27-28 Sermon Summary: The finale of Acts ends in a whirlwind: after being caught in a storm, Paul and those with him are lost at sea and without food. (27:14-26) When they finally land, shipwrecked, on the island of Malta, Paul is then bitten by a viper as he helps to start a fire. (28:2-4) But beca...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 22nd March 2026 Passage: Acts 23-26 Sermon Summary: Though he continues to be in chains—though more than forty Jews bound themselves by an oath to neither eat nor drink until they had killed him (Acts 23:12-13)—Paul continues to speak about faith in Christ Jesus wherever he goes, whether by word or deed. Ananias, Felix, and King...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 15th March 2026 Passage: Acts 21:17-22:22 Sermon Summary: What a 180-degree change from how Paul was treated in our last two passages of Acts! While the brothers received him gladly as he arrived (Acts 21:17), the Jews at Jerusalem had gotten the wrong message. They believed that Paul was teaching them to forsake the way of Mo...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 8th March 2026 Passage: Acts 21:1-16 Sermon Summary: What does it cost you to follow Christ? Constrained as he was by the Holy Spirit to visit Jerusalem (Acts 20:22), Paul knew very well that imprisonment and afflictions awaited him there. He was told by the Spirit that suffering awaited him in every city he visited. In Acts 21,...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 1st March 2026 Passage: Acts 20:1-38 Sermon Summary: At this point in Acts, Paul is nearing the end of his life. The gospel has made its way through Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria—even swaths of Asia, just as Christ promised. (Acts 1:8)—and yet Paul shows no sign of slowing down. If anything, this week’s passage of Acts 20:17-38...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 22nd February 2026 Passage: Acts 19:1-41 Sermon Summary: We’ve been tracing as a church the movement of the gospel and the Holy Spirit through the book of Acts. We witnessed their movement through Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria—in some ways, they even reached the (then-known) ends of the earth! If your memory of what we’ve gone t...

Series: Chinese New Year Service Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 15th February 2026 Passage: Acts 17:22-34 Sermon Summary: What would the apostle Paul say to us today if he were at the dinner table with us? What would he make of our customs, such as dressing in red, passing out lai see, or our Chinese New Year’s blessings? How might he respond to the anxiety felt at big family gatherings when som...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 8th February 2026 Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-12 Sermon Summary: We commonly assume that God’s priesthood is reserved for those called to full-time or vocational ministry. Like the Levites before them, God must have set these people aside for a special calling. This couldn’t be further from the truth: the call for all of God’s people to be part of His hol...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 1st February 2026 Passage: Ephesians 2:18-19 Sermon Summary: Before the apostle Paul talks about the household of God in verse 19, he tells the early church that because of Christ’s sacrifice, they now have access through His Spirit to God the Father. (Eph. 2:18) That is why the church is now the household of God, no longer strangers and aliens but...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 25th January 2026 Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-12 Sermon Summary: “And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” (Rev. 21:22) We were always meant to have full communion with God. From the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden, there was no temple: the Lord God walked with man, and the fullness of His presence...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. Gabriel with Jae Won Kim Date: 18th January 2026 Passage: Colossians 3:16-17

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 11th January 2026 Passage: Hebrews 10:24-25 Sermon Summary: It is hard to love. We know this. Loving and looking beyond oneself is so antithetical to who we are, to what the world calls us to be, that we cannot hope to do it on our own. And yet, Scripture tells us we cannot flourish without human community. The Greatest Commandment compels us to lo...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 4th January 2026 Passage: Acts 2:42-47

Series: / (End of Year Service) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 28th December 2025 Passage: Lk. 24:13-35 Sermon Summary: As you look back at 2025, what is it that you approach the end of the year with? Are you relieved that it’s over, or are you recovering from all that happened? Do you grieve not just our city, but the world with its injustices, crises, and natural disasters? It can be tempting to...

Series: Advent & Christmas Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 21st December 2025 Passage: Isaiah 7

Series: Advent & Christmas Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 14th December 2025 Passage: John 18:28-40 Sermon Summary: We learned in the past two weeks that Jesus came to seek and save the lost (Lk. 19:10), and to give life—life to the full. (Jn. 10:10) He tells us this week that He came to bear witness to the truth (Jn. 18:37), yet Scripture gives us an example of how the world behaves when it...

Series: Advent & Christmas Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 7th December 2025 Passage: John 10:10 Sermon Summary: One of the titles commonly attributed to Jesus is “Immanuel”, God with us. We heard last week that He came to seek and to save the lost. (Lk 19:10) This week, Jesus tells us that He came so that we might have life, and have it abundantly. (Jn. 10:10)  Truly, Jesus came to give us abu...

Series: Advent & Christmas Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 30th November 2025 Passage: Luke 19:10 Sermon Summary: Do we know why Jesus came? As we step into the month of December and prepare our hearts for His first coming—do we know why He came, the fullness of God in helpless babe? Luke 19:10 tells us that He came to seek and save the lost, and Zacchaeus’ story reflects this so beautifully. A...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 23rd November 2025 Passage: Acts 18:1-28

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 16th November 2025 Passage: Acts 17:1-34

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 9th November 2025 Passage: Acts 16:1-40 Sermon Summary: Though the book of Acts tells the story of the early Church fulfilling the mandate of the risen Lord Jesus (Acts 1:8), it also shows how God’s Holy Spirit works through His faithful. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in Acts 16, where we see numerous examples of Spi...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 2nd November, 2025 Passage: Acts 15:1-41 Sermon Summary: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Eph. 2:8-9) Verses 2:8-9 from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians speaks wonderfully to Acts 15. As the early Church engage...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 26th October 2025 Passage: Acts 14