One Covenant Church Sermons

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard This passage captures the essence of Paul's letter to Timothy, which is to endure with faithfulness. This is accomplished through sitting under the preaching of sound words and demonstrated through suffering in life. At the same time, we can live with hope because of what Christ has accomplished for us in the Gospel. What awaits us is the...

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard The apostle Paul encourages Timothy to learn from those who live out the Word of God. These are precious friends who would help to shape the inner functions of our hearts through their godly examples. In addition, we are to learn from those who breathe the Word of God. As they had received the Word of God themselves, they are more than able t...

Sermon series: Transforming through Community This is the third of four messages that were shared at our 2024 church retreat: Gospel Transformation is not merely something we experience individually but something we proclaim to others and live out in community. In that proclamation of good news that we can be made a new creation there is also a call to belong to a community of those who have been...

Sermon series: Transforming through Community This is the second of four messages that were shared at our 2024 church retreat: Ancient Hebrew wisdom compares a foolish or wicked man to chaff that is blown away and forgotten but a wise or righteous man has an eternal legacy. Redemptive history shows us that God’s people fail, time and again to be wise. The result is eternal condemnation. But ancien...

Sermon series: Transforming through Community This is the first of four messages that were shared at our 2024 church retreat: God’s pattern for transformation involves recovering the original trajectory of transformation that was set forth for humanity in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, who were made in God’s image, departed from this plan through their rebellion, putting them on a course result...

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard There's a real danger of hypocrisy in the life of the church, which is often hidden from sight. In order to combat this, we need Gospel clarity that exposes religious hypocrisy. This is achieved in the context of the church community, where the idea of believers doing life together takes place. Preacher: Aaron Akins Date: 18 August 2024

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard This is also the last of four messages that were shared at our 2024 church retreat: The apostle Paul encourages Timothy to remind the church about the Gospel of Jesus Christ concerning His life, death, and resurrection. This is crucial when purity and unity are threatened and disrupted from within the church. The solution is to cultivate true...

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard In this passage, the apostle Paul provides a theological basis for the work of perseverance. We're called to remember Jesus Christ, the fulfilment of God's covenant promises who was risen from the dead. As we go through suffering in life, the experience presents an opportunity for us to encourage one another through witnessing to the...

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard The apostle Paul reminds Timothy, and by implication all believers, that the Christian life and ministry are only possible by the grace of God. His gracious preservation enables us to persevere through the means of pondering over His Word. This is how we arrive at the finish line, one limping step at a time. Preacher: Joel Sim Date: 28 July 2...

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard In the second half of 2 Timothy 1, Paul continues with a sobering charge for Timothy. Timothy should not be ashamed of our suffering Saviour and His suffering servant and not be tempted to desert them especially when persecution gets hard. Timothy is also to share in the suffering for the gospel despite knowing that it can be ugly, heart-wren...

Sermon series: 2 Timothy -- The Things You've Heard 2 Timothy was written by the apostle Paul to his beloved protégé, Timothy, as an encouragement to be faithful in ministry. In the opening to this letter, Paul connects his apostleship with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which grounds everything that he does. He is thankful for the unhypocritical faith of Timothy, which was passed down to him by...

Sermon series: Topical Sermons As believers in Jesus Christ, our first calling is to follow our Lord, who has saved us by His grace. From this, we consider the specific work that Christ has called us to do as our second calling. Through our abilities, burdens, and the critical defining moments in our life, we gain a better picture that will help to guide us in discovering our calling. This cuts ag...

Sermon series: Reflections on the Psalms Psalm 107 calls us to give thanks to God for His work of redemption, which is rooted in His steadfast love towards us. As He helps us in various situations, we come to understand more of Him through the various ways in which help and rescue are given. This points us to the fact that He is a sovereign God who is in control of all things, and since He knows w...

Sermon series: Reflections on the Psalms Psalm 90 is a lament song that calls us to reckon with our mortality as believing pilgrims here on earth. There is a distinct emphasis on God’s eternity, as well as the brevity of our lives and cultures. The reality of sin remains as we continue to live as pilgrims in this fallen world. Nevertheless, we can live as those who fear the Lord as we are constant...

Sermon series: Reflections on the Psalms The psalmist Asaph shows us how we can handle doubts in our lives. Doubts often arise through experiences that seem incoherent with the faith. This means that we should be willing to doubt our doubts in order to engage them fairly. For Asaph, he was redirected to God through participation in sanctuary worship, which provided an eternal perspective as he rec...

In Psalm 42, the psalmist expresses his longing to commune with God. As he finds himself away from the sanctuary of God, the psalmist shows us the importance of lament in the face of pain and anguish. The purpose of lament is not to drive us away from God but to drive us towards Him and His good purposes. When we do so, we're enabled to live with hope, leading to praise of the living God.

Sermon series: Reflections on the Psalms In this opening, defining psalm, the psalmist draws our attention to the importance of walking in the way of wisdom. This comes through meditating, day and night, on the Word of God. By internalising it, we become a fruit-bearing tree that can resist sin, as well as prosper according to God's economy. This is possible because of our union with the true...

Sermon series: This I Believe -- The Apostles' Creed The Creed ends with a reminder that Jesus gives us hope in the present life, in life after death, and in life after life after death. Our final hope as Christians is not to live as disembodied beings in eternity, but to be with God in resurrected physical bodies in a restored creation. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 26 May 2024

Sermon series: This I Believe -- the Apostles' Creed In Jesus, God can mercifully forgive our sins without compromising His justice, and so be perfectly merciful and perfectly just at the same time (Exodus 34:6-7). He is just, because sin has been punished in Jesus. And he is merciful, because He can now freely forgive. This forgiveness cannot be earned, but can only be received humbly as a fr...

Sermon series: This I Believe -- The Apostles' Creed After its description of the persons of the Trinity, the Apostles' Creed transitions to a description of the church as God's people. The church is the gathering of saints who have been set apart by God for the sacred mission of proclaiming the Gospel to the ends of the earth. As believers, we have communion with one another through o...

Sermon series: This I Believe -- The Apostles' Creed After confessing about God the Father and the Son, the Apostles’ Creed turns to the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, in the third paragraph (“I believe in the Holy Spirit”). Theologian J. I. Packer says that this paragraph “turns to the re-creating work of the Spirit, whereby we are actually made new in and through Christ.” In o...

Sermon series: This I Believe -- The Apostles' Creed The Creed teaches us that Jesus rose on the third day, ascended to heaven, is seated at the right hand of God and will return to judge the living and the dead. Through this Jesus obtains for us a secure and sure salvation, and gives us eternal hope. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 28 April 2024

Sermon series: This I Believe -- The Apostles' Creed The creed helps us confess that we believe Jesus died unjustly, innocently, but historically at the hands of Pontius Pilate. He died a cruel and shameful death by crucifixion to forgive our sins and cover our shame. His death, burial and descent to the place of the dead show us that Jesus died as a human being, in our place, and for our salv...

Sermon series: This I Believe -- The Apostles' Creed Christians throughout the ages have believed that Jesus is fully God and fully human at the same time. This means that God has broken into history, showing us that He is real, and that He has come to save us, conquer evil, and restore what is broken by sin. Preacher: Tan Huai Tze Date: 14 April 2024

Sermon series: This I Believe, The Apostles' Creed The Apostles' Creed, which gives us a summarised picture of the Gospel, begins by telling us who is this very God that Christians believe in. He is our Father Almighty and the Creator of all things. Those who trust in Jesus are adopted into God's family, and God becomes their ever-present help. Preacher: Joel Sim Date: 7 April 2024