St Timothy Presbyterian Church in Toronto: Sermons

Scripture Passage Micah 6:1-8 Sermon Text During our call to worship today, we read, “The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” These were the words of King David, and this was his personal confession. And what David realized was that it didn’t […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 9:1-4     Sermon Text Last Monday, January 20th, was Blue Monday. They said it was the most depressing day of the year. At the staff meeting, Dave said, “Somehow, this year started with a lot of darkness.” And that is so true. This year, somehow from the beginning, a lot of […]

Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 3:1-9     Sermon Text God has called all of us to bless one another. It is God’s gift, community is God’s gift, and in God’s blessing. We had a wonderful retreat. Thank you for all the participants, your insights, opinions, stories, and sharing meant a lot. That was what made […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 42:1-9   Sermon Text Today, as Steve prayed, we mourn for those who died in the airplane crash over Iran. As we read more, we realized that many of them were our neighbors. They’re our friends, coworkers, in this multicultural city and country that we call home. They were people just like […]

Scripture Passage Jeremiah 31:7-14 Sermon Text As Simon said, we have 52 weeks in this year. Let us make 52 great offerings. Our worship is our offering to God. So 52 offerings, whether we do choir music or special music, sermon, prayer, we really put our effort into it. And then every Sunday becomes a […]

Scripture Passage Matthew 2:13-23   Sermon Text I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas. I love Christmas. For many of us, Christmas is a time of great happiness and connection with family and those closest to us. I’m sure for many of you, it’s a very busy time, but it’s a very, happy busyness. The […]

Scripture Passage Matthew 1:18-25   Sermon Text Today is Christmas Sunday. May God’s joy and peace be with you and with your family. I believe that Christmas itself is a mystery. It was a scandal that God came to us in a human form, especially to Jewish people who believed in monotheism, that there is […]

Scripture Passage Matthew 11:2-11   Sermon Text Today’s the third, Sunday of advent. On the third Sunday of advent, the theme is joy. Where do we get joy? Where do we get joy of life? When do we get joyful? When I watch sports games, I can see pure joy from the teams. The winning […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 11:1-10 Sermon Text Jesus said, “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell“. The Psalmist also said, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction“. The prophet Isaiah […]

Scripture Passage Matthew 24:36-44 Sermon Text Today is the first day of December, and I think it’s a good sign that winter is coming. It’s the last month of 2019, and towards the end of the year, often we like to start thinking back on things and what changes we would like to make in […]

Scripture Passage Luke 23:33-43 Sermon Text What is Salvation? Salvation is a very important question. We all ask this question about salvation. What is salvation? People at the cross also asked this question. There are different people at the cross. They all came for different reasons. The Roman soldiers were carrying out the execution of […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 65:17-25 Sermon Text Isaiah’s Vision of new heavens and a new earth Today is Isaiah’s vision of new heavens and the new earth, all the description, It is a beautiful picture. I wish that this was our reality. One who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth and one […]

Scripture Passage Luke 20:27-40 Sermon Text Levirate Marriage This passage is very little strange. It is not easy to logically follow the argument and I don’t think Jesus is really arguing for the resurrection. There are two big groups, in Jewish culture. One is Pharisees. The other said disease and Sarah say, did not believe […]

Scripture Reading Luke 19:1-10 Sermon Text Searching for Answers So Jesus says in today’s passage, it’s in the last line for the son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost, to seek out and to save the lost. Human beings have always been searching, right? Searching for peace, searching for meaning, […]

Scripture Passage 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Sermon Text Fading Passion When something is new, there is usually passion and excitement. When I first started dating Deb, our relationship was passionate and exciting. I would pick her up late from Robarts Library at 1am after she was done studying, or I would buy food and take it to […]

Scripture Passage Luke 17:11-19 Sermon Text Happy People vs. Miserable People When you look around, some people are always miserable. It doesn’t matter if their circumstances are good or bad, there always seems to be something to complain about. But then there are other people, their circumstances may be good or bad, but whatever they’re […]

Scripture Passage Luke 17:5-10 Sermon Text Straying away from God Explain my life with two words, I will say indebted life. I feel indebted. No one can stand before God with absolute confidence because we all have our shortcomings because we are all sinners. That’s why Saint Paul said this “There is no one who […]

Scripture Passage 1 Timothy 6:6-19 Sermon Text There are people who are generally happy and content in whatever situation they may be in. When I look at their situation, the situation is not very good, and yet they’re still happy and very content. But there are also people who are never content, who never feel […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 58:1-12, Ephesians 2:1-12 Sermon Text Thank you, I’m very honoured and privileged to be here with you this morning at St. Timothy’s. This is a unique place that I have a special relationship with because as some of you know, this congregation is my childhood congregation. So a lot of the people […]

Scripture Passage Luke 15:1-10 Sermon Text Jesus said this, “Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance”. This is Jesus’ attitude. And this is the attitude of God. This is the attitude of heaven and also attitude […]

Scripture Passage Luke 14:25-33   Sermon Text People love deals, and I love deals too. Whatever you buy, you have to look for a very good deal. We get so many emails about promotions. Almost every day, several emails, 20% off, 30% off, even 50% off. And then when you look at the picture, it […]

Scripture Passage John 17:9-11   Sermon Text As you saw in the video that we showed during the announcements, we just got back from our Hi-C retreat this past Thursday. It was another special retreat for all of us. We had a chance to welcome our grade sevens into the Hi-C and to bless the […]

Scripture Passage Jeremiah 1:4-10   Celebration of Milestones Today we have our whole ESM congregation here from our infants at the back, and toddlers, all the way up to our adults. And I think in some ways, this is how God intended for things to be – for us to all live in community together. […]

Scripture Reading Hebrews 11:29-12:2   Sermon Text Faith is Mysterious If you have faith, be thankful because faith is not something that you can acquire easily. We don’t know how we have come to have faith. Just because you decide to believe that doesn’t mean that you can believe. Just because you grew up in […]

Scripture Passage Luke 12:32-34   Sermon Text Purses that Do Not Wear Out Purses that to not wear out, purses that do not wear out. What does this mean? It is talking about our existence, the existence that does not wear out. Everything wears out as time passes. Our body wears out and even our […]