The Gathering Sermons

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

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 19th October 2025 Passage: Acts 13 Sermon Summary: We’ve seen the fulfillment of Jesus’ proclamation to the disciples in Acts 1:8, starting with the church in Jerusalem who first received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (2:1-11). Stephen’s death scattered the believers throughout Judea and Samaria, (8:1) and Philip brought great jo...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 12th October 2025 Passage: Acts 12 Sermon Summary: What can we say apart from praise be to God, who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think? (Eph. 3:20) The sharing from our Congo team set the scene as they talked about God’s supernatural providence with a specific SSD part that was missing, and doors o...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 5th October 2025 Passage: Acts 11:19-30 Sermon Summary: Just as Jesus declared at the beginning of Acts (1:8), we’ve seen the gospel travel around Jerusalem (Acts 2), Judea, and Samaria (8:4-8, 14-17). It even started to break Gentile ground with the Holy Spirit’s descent on Cornelius and his household (10:44-46). But it’s in An...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 28th September 2025 Passage: Acts 10:1-11:18 Sermon Summary: In Isaiah 55:8-9, the prophet records God’s declaration that His thoughts and ways are nothing like ours. They are far beyond anything we could imagine! Acts 10 shows us an example of this as God orchestrates an encounter between Cornelius the centurion and the apostle...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 21st September 2025 Passage: Acts 9:32-43 Sermon Summary: What’s your reaction when you come across accounts of healing in Scripture, such as Aeneas who was healed from his paralysis, or Dorcas who was risen from the dead? Perhaps it’s yearning or longing for an injury to be healed, or relief for a friend or family member batt...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang & Sam Leung Date: 14th September 2025 Passage: Acts 9:1-19 Sermon Summary: The story of Jesus’ confrontation with the apostle Paul is one of the most dramatic in Scripture: Paul, who then went by his Hebrew name Saul, was actively persecuting the church. He was breathing threats and murder against the followers of Jesus (Acts 9:1)...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 7th September 2025 Passage: Acts 8:26-40 Sermon Summary: This week’s account of the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26-40) shows us what can happen as we remain obedient and responsive to the Holy Spirit. It involves Philip, who we last saw bringing the word to Samaria (v.6-8; 14-17), and an Ethiopian eunuch, who seems to be searching for spi...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 31st August 2025 Passage: Acts 8:1-25 Summary: Although Stephen’s death sparked great persecution against the church (Acts 8:1b), it was also the catalyst for a great scattering. One of those who scattered was Philip, a fellow deacon who had served alongside Stephen. (6:5) Philip willingly entered enemy territory—Samaria being h...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 24th August 2025 Passage: Acts 6:8-7:60 Sermon Summary: Highlighted in last week’s passage as a man “full of faith and of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 6:5a), the deacon Stephen was “doing great wonders and signs among the people.” (v.8) But there were those who “could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which [Stephen] was...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 17th August 2025 Passage: Acts 6:1-7 Sermon Summary: This week’s passage of Acts 6:1-7 introduces us to the first deacons, “seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and…wisdom.” (v.3) All seven of the deacons have Greek names, suggesting a Hellenistic (Greek) background. This was perfect for the complaint that the Hellenisti...

Series: Questions About Faith Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 10th August 2025 Passage: Romans 8:18-30 Sermon Summary: If God is good, then why is there still suffering in this world? It’s not as straightforward as we think it is—on the one hand, God could eradicate terrorists, murderers, and criminals with just a snap of His fingers. But the problem of suffering would still exist. We exist, and we...

Series: Questions About Faith Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 3rd August 2025 Passage: Romans 1:19-22a Sermon Summary: Since the popularization of science during the Enlightenment era, faith and science have been pitted against each other. Reason replaced theology as the primary source of authority and legitimacy. Influential thinkers started to argue for a complete rejection of religion and religi...

Series: Questions About Faith Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 27th July 2025 Passage: Isaiah 43:1-13 Sermon Summary: According to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, the meaning of life—or the chief end of man—is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Only God alone is everlasting, only He will truly satisfy. But what does it mean for us to glorify Him? How is this related to our enjoyment of Hi...