JICF Sunday Sermons

Happy New Year! As often comes with the New Year, we attempt to start afresh and set resolutions or goals for ourselves. Often, we start off strong and have much motivation, but many times after a month or so we deviate from the resolution or goal. We can become discouraged and lose sight of what we set out to do. Some of this can be from setting ambitions too high, or starting to compare ourselve...

Before Jericho could be conquered, Joshua himself needed conquering. When God calls us to be His disciples and do His work, God first establishes Himself as our leader. In every situation, will you accept divine leadership and let God be God?

To many of us, the emphasis on Christmas is usually about God's love. How loving He is. How forgiving He is. How merciful He is! While that is true, this is not the complete picture. In fact, it is God’s holiness that demanded the story of Christmas. The answer lies in understanding God’s holiness – a holiness that cannot overlook sin, a holiness that demands justice, and a holiness that provided...

God is on a mission to restore His kingdom on earth. He has called us to join Him in His mission, but He has not left us guessing about how to do this. In fact, the whole book of Acts is about how the early church worked to complete the Great Commission. From Acts 17:1-15 we will learn three ways to fulfill the Great Commission.

The Great Commission! Why don’t we carry it out as seriously as the early church did? What paradigm shifts do we need to make in order to carry out the Great Commission?

What is Faith? Can you think of anyone who has inspired you through their example of Faithfulness to God? What did they do? How did they live out their Faith? In this sermon, we look at Hebrews 11 and a number of stories of Faith to inspire us to live out lives of faithfulness and Obedience to our Lord.

God is on the move and is drawing people from the most unexpected places to believe in Him. In the idol worshipping city of Jericho, God made the gospel known to Rahab before she even met the people of Israel. join us this Sunday as we are challenged to go forward knowing that God has worked to prepare hearts before we even arrive.

We are in the middle of Paul’s second missionary journey and in today’s passage, we find Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke in Philippi. It’s a story of how the gospel breaks every kind of chain—spiritual, emotional, and physical. The slave girl was set free from demonic oppression. Paul and Silas were set free from their physical chains. And the jailer was set free from spiritual death and given new l...

The Holy Spirit desires to lead us in every step of our lives, ministry or work. But how do we recognize, be sensitive to and obey the leading of the Spirit? Let us learn from how the Holy Spirit led Paul and his team in Acts 16:6-15

On Sunday, we look at Acts 15:36 - Acts 16:5 as the Apostle Paul begins his second missionary journey. We will learn about Paul’s passion, his choice of people and the preparation for his journey - and how these might guide us in the missions in life which God has given each of us.

The gospel message is the heart of Christianity. We are called not just to be experts of the gospel and to communicate the gospel well, but we are also commanded to defend the gospel. Leaders of churches have an even greater responsibility to defend the gospel both from within and from outside of the church. In Acts 15, we will discover how the early church leaders defended the gospel from attacks...

In the Book of Acts we see a clear pattern of believers intentionally entering new areas, sharing the Gospel, beginning transformational discipleship, gathering believers into simple house churches, appointing local leaders (elders), and moving on to other areas with the intention of returning to strengthen these new churches as part of the growing multi-ethnic Body of Christ. In Acts 14:21-28 we...

The message of the gospel requires a response from us. What would be a good and bad response? Let us hear what happens in Acts 14:8-20.

As we continue to follow Paul's and Barnabas' missionary journey into the cities of Iconium, Lystra and Derbe, we can extract from the passage that they possess certain characteristics that made them effective missionaries. Let us discover more of what made them effective missionaries.

In Acts 13 we see the first missionary journey. We look at the ways Paul presents the Gospel to those he encounters on this journey and explore lessons we can take away to help us fulfill God's great commission together.

“What is God's will for my life?” is a common question among Christian. How do we figure out God's will? How can we align ourselves with His will? In this sermon, we went through Acts 13:1-12 to find out.

In Acts we have seen many instances of persecution and opposition to the church and the gospel. Sometimes we focus too much on who our earthly opponents are without considering the "puppet master" behind them. This morning we are going to look at who our enemy really is. 1 Peter 5:8-11 gives us some needed clarity and encouragement with regard to this difficult topic, speaking both of who our adve...

The book of Acts is about how Jesus miraculously fulfills his promise to bring the gospel to the end of the earth. There were many insurmountable obstacles to the spread of the gospel. In Acts 12:1-15, one of the obstacles is the government’s violent persecution of believers. But God is sovereign and can overcome this seemingly insurmountable obstacle to fulfill his plan miraculously. As result, e...

In this sermon, we explore the reaction of the Jewish church in Jerusalem to the news that Peter had reached out to the Gentiles. Do we reach across barriers as Peter did to share the Good News with those who are ethnically and religiously different than ourselves? If not, why not? And if we desire to do so, how?

Speakers: Sandjaja Prawiro & Lee Khen Seng Joshua 24:15 "But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." As devoted Christ-followers, parents must have a sense of mission that expands beyond their own lives. The works that Jesus began must carry on until Jesus comes and finishes it Himself. The Christian faith does not just come from us (parents), it should also pass through us. While...

Psalm 90 is the only Psalm written by Moses as he mentored the next generation to follow God! This Psalm still instructs us today on the most important realities we need to understand in order to successfully navigate all of our challenges today.

(2 Timothy 1:1-18) One of the ways God builds His Kingdom is through mentorship relationships. Through mentorship, people are empowered to discover and use their God-given potential for His Kingdom. Paul sets an example of empowering through mentorship with the people he mentors, like Timothy.

Mentorship does not occur in a vacuum and neither does Christian discipleship. God has given us a community in which we can pursue Christ-like maturity together. This week as we continue our look at the idea of Biblical mentorship we will survey a few passages that give us a vision for what a church culture of Gospel - empowered mentoring could and should look like and how we all have something to...

Follow me, as I follow Christ! Reflecting on my spiritual journey, I see how God has consistently placed individuals ahead of me to guide my growth in Christlikeness. This mirrors the approach Jesus Himself used when He entrusted the ministry of the Kingdom of God to His disciples. Throughout His three years of ministry, Jesus invested significant time teaching and impacting the lives of the twelv...

It is God's desire for everyone to be saved, regardless of who you are. So far from the book of Acts we have seen how when social, economical, gender and cultural obstacles were addressed and overcome, multitudes were added to the early church. In this sermon, wee address the issue of prejudices against the gentiles and how victory over this obstacle resulted in the gospel being spread to every na...