One Covenant Church Sermons

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life In Ecclesiastes Chapter 8, the preacher Qohelet prescribes the wise way to behave around a king, but at the same time warns us about the limitations of wisdom, and how wisdom is insufficient to answer all the questions we have. Preacher: Wong Yann Date: 26 July 2020

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qohelet tells us that wisdom is needed to live in a paradoxical world under the effects of sin. However, just because we pursue wisdom, this does not imply that we will receive its associated benefits, nor does it mean that we will never sin. Instead, this points to our need for the sinless Christ to redeem us from folly and to live wisely as He...

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Instead of wealth, Qohelet points us to seeking wisdom that will be able to guide us through life.  To get wisdom, we need to acknowledge our humanity and our mortality: the prospect of death teaches us many important lessons.  We must also consider the limits of wisdom.  Wisdom cannot save us from our sins.  Only Christ, who...

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qohelet continues his quest to show us meaning by discussing wealth and our love for it. He shows that wealth cannot satisfy, and cannot promise joy, but that it isn't evil, but good. He helps us see that all that we are, and all that we have is a gift from God. God is our source of true joy. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 5 July 2020

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qohelet reaches the pinnacle of his argument: if nothing on earth really matters, what does? Our relationship to God. He therefore warns us against approaching God foolishly, and shows us how we can worship in a way that reflects God's holiness and glory. Preacher: Aaron Akins Date: 28 June 2020

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qohelet shows us that how and why we work can contribute to addressing injustice and oppression in this world. Instead of envy, he urges us to cooperate and to consider others' needs over our own. Only in Christ, the king who humbled himself for us, can we find the power to live for others, and so contribute to a more just and free world. Preache...

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qohelet confronts us with the hard realities of life through the twin problems of injustice and oppression. It is a reminder that we continue to live in a fallen world where justice is not administered perfectly, and a reminder that life apart from God only ends in death and a return to the dust. However, God has sent His Son Jesus Christ, w...

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qohelet shows us that we do not have control over the times and seasons in our lives, but God does. And the God who does is sovereign, wise and kind. When we see that he is writing a better story of our lives than we would ever write, we take pleasure in every moment he gives, and we stand in awe of him. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 7 June 2020

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qohelet now addresses the universal search for happiness. Through his own experience, he takes us through the path of seeking wisdom and knowledge to find it futile, and then to pleasure and possessions to find them fleeting. None of these things can truly give joy. To truly have joy, he discovers, is to recognise wisdom, knowledge and pleasure a...

Sermon series: Ecclesiastes -- Making Sense of Life Qoholet, the scholar-king shows us that all that we toil for apart from God will ultimately be fleeting and futile. Why? Because life itself is fleeting, mundane and insatiable. In so doing, he points us forward to the eternal, new and full life that only Jesus can give. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 24 May 2020

Sermon series: Anchors for the Soul Paul exhorts Timothy to remember Jesus in his effort to endure in Christian ministry in 2 Timothy 2. What lessons can we learn from this for our own witness, evangelism and discipleship efforts? Preacher: Wong Yann Date: 17 May 2020

Sermon series: Anchors for the Soul To get through troubled times, we need to learn the language of lament. This teaches us to come before God with our raw and honest emotions. We can despair in his presence, cry out and find hope in him. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 10 May 2020

Sermon series: Anchors for the Soul God's everlasting, unstoppable, committed, and costly love not only sustains his people through adversity, it makes them 'more than conquerors'. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 3 May 2020

Sermon series: Anchors for the Soul The hope that God gives is a certain assurance that God will keep those who are his and perfect them. There is an objective basis for this hope: the love of God demonstrated in the death of Christ for sinners. But then, there is also the subjective experience of this hope when God's Spirit pours his love into our hearts. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 26 April 202...

Sermon series: Anchors for the Soul We need faith, a trusting surrender to God and his promises to help us through this season. Through the prophet Habakkuk, we find a path to this faith through rehearsing the mighty acts of God, reminding ourselves of the character of God, and having a resolve to trust in God no matter the circumstances. And we do so joyfully when we see God's greatest act in his...

Sermon series: Lifted Up to Life The resurrection of Christ is a historical fact with an existential reality. The same power God used to raise Jesus, is the same power working for and in those who belong to Christ. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 12 April 2020

Sermon series: Show Us God In the account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, he shows us that life after death I.e. the resurrection from the dead can only come through believing in him, the one who dies for sinners and rises again. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 5 April 2020

Occasion: Church's 3rd Anniversary Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 29 March 2020

Sermon series: Show Us God Jesus makes 3 grand declarations about himself: he is the door to safety, freedom and flourishing; he is the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep; and he is God. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 22 March 2020

Sermon series: Show Us God Animosity against Jesus is growing. Even his own brothers and the religious leaders do not believe in him. Jesus' indictment against the religious is that they don't believe because they don't really want to obey God, and that they don't really obey the law. But those who come to him and believe in him, Jesus promises God's own Spirit to dwell within them. Preacher: Tan...

Sermon series: Show Us God Jesus gives two hard teachings in John 6:41-71 -- (1) that he is from heaven and (2) that we must eat his flesh. What do these teachings mean and will you also find these teachings hard to accept? Preacher: Wong Yann Date: 23 February 2020

Sermon series: Show Us God In the feeding of the multitude and the miraculous crossing of the sea, John shows us that Jesus is the true and better Moses who has come to bring about a greater exodus: Jesus recuses us from sin and gives us eternal life. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 16 February 2020

Sermon series: Show Us God Jesus' promise to give eternal life to all who believe in him (John 3:16) is intricately bound up in who he is. In this passage, Jesus demonstrates with his miracles and calls witnesses to authenticate his claim that he is 'equal with God' (John 5:18). Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 9 February 2020

Sermon series: Show Us God Jesus goes after those you would not naturally associate with God's Kingdom: a Samaritan woman of questionable morals, and a Gentile official with a dying son. He is on mission to bring the outsiders in. As his followers, we should be on this mission too. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 2 February 2020

Sermon series: Show Us God Through his encounter with the highly religious and moral leader Nicodemus, Jesus shows us that to enter God's Kingdom, religion and morality are not enough. God needs to give you new life, and you need to respond to God by trusting in his Son. Evidence of having entered God's Kingdom is found in the willingness to obey God. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 26 January 2020