St Timothy Presbyterian Church in Toronto: Sermons

Scripture Passage Matthew 11:16-19 {Transcript} Sermon Text A Special Kind Of Intelligence Empathy is a very important aspect of our lives. God gave human beings special intelligence, more intelligence than animals, but also God gave us another kind of intelligence – to be able to control and govern our intelligence, and that is a empathy. […]

Sermon Audio Sermon Text Introduction The first session we talked about the need to cultivate desire because without cultivating the desire, what we are doing is we are just letting the change impose on us. Instead of us taking charge of the change, we just let the circumstances or people around us to influence our […]

Sermon Audio E-book Click on the images above to read this session in e-book format. Sermon Text Introduction Yesterday we talked about the importance of cultivating the desire within us. Cultivating the desire within us is important because you don’t want to be victims of the change that is imposed on you. You want to […]

Sermon Audio E-book Click on the images above to read this session in e-book format. Sermon Text Change Our topic this weekend is change. Change is very important in our lives. It’s the very, very core of the life that we’re living. Depending on what kind of change you make, your life will be very, […]

Session Audio E-book Click on the image above to read this session in e-book format. Session Text Relationships that Bring Change So the last lecture, as I said, this is going to be short and then I want you to discuss more how we can build more meaningful relationships in our lives. And when we […]

Session Audio E-book Click on the image above to read this session in e-book format. Session Text Introduction Yesterday, we said Adam and Eve were created, and the important thing is not that Adam and Eve were there. The important thing that I wanted to emphasize was that “and” was created. The relationship was created […]

Session Audio E-book Click on the image above to read this session in e-book format. Session Text Introduction I hope that this is the most memorable retreat for all of us, especially this time since we’re going to focus on relationships. A relationship is something that we all have, and that is what I like […]

Scripture Passage Luke 15:1-10 Sermon Audio Scripture Passage Luke 15:1-10 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing […]

Scripture Passage Matthew 10:40-42 {Transcript} Sermon Text Hospitality Hospitality. That’s a beautiful word, and hospitality is a very important aspect of living as a human. Being hospitable makes other people feel welcome, appreciated, valued and loved. That’s what we human beings should do. We should make other people feel welcomed, appreciated and valued. You have […]

Scripture Passage Mark 5:21-43 Sermon Text Faith is a mysterious thing. We sing about it every Sunday. It sounds good. But here’s the thing: until real challenges or difficulties hit us, we don’t know if we really have faith or not. When our lives are nicely put together, or when things are going well, there’s […]

Scripture Passage Mark 4:26-34 {Transcript} Sermon Text Challenges to Plant the Kingdom of God The Kingdom of God is what we plant. The Kingdom of God is not just given to us. It’s something that we plant, it’s a like a new kind of concept, new idea but I discovered that from this passage. Ah, […]

Scripture Passage 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 {Transcript} Sermon Text Scripture Passage 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—“I believed, and so I spoke”—we also believe, and so we speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with […]

Scripture Passage 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 {Transcript} Sermon Text Scripture Passage 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light […]

Scripture Passage John 3:1-17 {Transcript} Sermon Text Scripture Passage John 3:1-17 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart […]

Scripture Passage Romans 8:26-28 Sermon Text Prayer Sometimes we don’t know exactly what we want in our lives and actually, it is the hardest thing to really know what we want in our lives. Our deepest desire is often hidden deep within us, so it is hard to articulate. It is hard to be aware […]

Scripture Passage John 12:24-25 {Transcript} Sermon Text Scripture Passage John 12:24-25 Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this […]

Scripture Passage Luke 11:1-13 {Transcript} Thank you Choir. Grateful for the invitation to be among us today. Thankful for Simon who decided this was a good idea, so if things go wrong, please find him and do something to him. When we were children, we were encouraged to say our prayers at meals and especially […]

Scripture Passage John 15:1-8 {Transcript} Sermon Text Scripture Passage John 15:1-8 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to […]

Scripture Passage Colossians 1:15-20 Sermon Text Scripture Passage Colossians 1:15-20 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He […]

Scripture Passage Acts 5:34-42 {Transcript} The Christian Movement There were two big pillars of Jewish thought. These two schools actually govern the thought of Jewish people during Jesus’ time and before Jesus’ time and one was the school of Hillel and the other was the school of Shammai. The school of Hillel, was a more […]

Scripture Passage John 20:19-23 {Transcript} Disciples Hid Fear is a funny thing. It is real and it’s very concrete in a way. Once fear takes a grip on us, it paralyzes us. And also in fear, we feel like we’re very small and powerless. And also when the fear attacks us, often we locked the […]

Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 {Transcript} Vitality Easter is about change and hope. With Christ has risen and he gave us a change and hope, you all know, St Paul, a very famous Christian theologian who probably defined what Christianity is all about. And St Paul, his main theology was around resurrection. His, the core […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 50:4-9a Sermon Audio Sermon Text Retaliate Before the worship, we briefly meditate on what we’re, what attitude, what worship is, and what attitude we should have, and then what kind of heart does God really desire from us? I think the heart that God receives from us is a broken heart, brokenness. […]

Scripture Passage John 1:43-50 (*We apologize for the audio quality, as it was extracted from a video recording.) {Transcript} I find a curiosity people to be quite attractive. There’s something that’s very pure about it and we see a lot of this in children. They feel no shame about asking or saying whatever’s on their […]

Scripture Passage Psalm 107:17-22 Sermon Audio Sermon Text Today’s scripture passage talks about becoming fools. Some became fools through their rebellious ways. Some became fools. Because they became fools, they suffered affliction, they even lost the appetite, and they were drawn near the gates of death. Because they became fools they suffer so much. The […]