St Timothy Presbyterian Church in Toronto: Sermons

Scripture Reading {Transcript} Sermon Text   Power to Press On Happy Easter! Resurrection, that’s a difficult topic. Knowing resurrection is not like a knowing a computer or knowing forgiveness, resurrection, It’s hard to talk about it, no one can explain it. Maybe something that you cannot understand by explanation or visual presentation, we can never […]

Scripture Reading {Transcript} Sermon Text Loneliness is a Silent Killer of Modern Society Loneliness is a silent killer of modern society. I read a very interesting article on the Globe and mail written by Elizabeth Renzetti and in this article Amy Rokak, a psychologist and lecturer at York University who has been researching on this […]

Scripture Passage Mark 11: 1-11

Scripture Reading {Transcript} Sermon Text No One Can Live Without Forgiveness No one can live without forgiveness. Why? Because we’re not perfect. No one is perfect. We all make mistakes. We all do things or did things we should have never done. We all said things we should never have said. We all hurt others […]

Scripture Reading {Sermon} Scripture in Text Suffering for Others Sufferings I’m wondering what Christian saviour looks like, what Christian Messiah looks like. I think Isaiah portrayed Christian Messiah very Clearly. He carried our diseases, was wounded, was crushed upon him and was the punishment. That’s what Christian Messiah looks like and that is the Messiah […]

Scripture Passage Philippians 2: 5-11, John 19: 1-11 {Transcript} Sermon Text These days I reflect on humility and sacrifice. These two words keep coming to me, humility and sacrifice. Partly because we’re doing our Philippians study and we know that humility is a very important virtue for Christians. What It Means to be Humble What […]

Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 Sermon Text Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have […]

Scripture Passage Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon Audio Sermon Text Scripture Passage 2 Corinthians 9:1-15 Worries Jesus said not to worry about tomorrow, but it is not always easy not to worry. When life gets tough, the first thing we do is a worry. When we look at ourselves, when things don’t go well, the first thing we do is a […]

Sermon Text Scripture Passage {Not available} Recognition They said last Monday was the blue Monday, it is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. Cliff Arnall, a former lecturer at Cardiff University was commissioned by the UK travel agency in 2005 to find the most depressing day of the year as a […]

Scripture Passage {Passage Unavailable} Sermon Text Scripture Passage {Passage Unavailable} Victims Are we victims of our environment? Sometimes I wonder. Do we have no choice but to be shaped and determined by the environment we’re in? Do we have the freedom to be different, in spite of our environment? Or are we just a product […]

{Sermon} Scripture in Text Ones Image We all want to live a very good and happy life. That’s what God wants for us too. Our God is not a God who’s jealous about us having a good time. Our God is not a God who only sees our negative side and makes us feel guilty […]

Scripture Passage Hosea 6:1-3 Sermon Text Today’s scripture reading is taken from Hosea 6:1-3. Come, let us return to the Lord; for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he […]

Scripture Reading Luke 2:41-52 Sermon Text Jesus’ Youth Today’s story is a very interesting story. It is the story of Jesus when he was 12 years old. Only the Gospel of Luke contains this particular story. And today’s story is the only story about Jesus, who was in his youth, in the whole Bible. Imagine […]

Scripture Reading Luke 1:39-55 Sermon Text Scripture Passage Luke 1:39-55 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and […]

Scripture Passage Matthew 1:18-25 Sermon Text Scripture Passage Matthew 1:18-25 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 40:27-31 {Transcript} Sermon Text Scripture Passage Isaiah 40:27-31 “Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of […]

Scripture Passage Philippians 4:6-10 {Transcript} Sermon Text   Perspective of Thanksgiving Scripture reading is from Corinthians for chapter four, six, “don’t worry about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and […]

Scripture Passage Mark 7:24-30 Listen to today’s sermon on Women’s Sunday. Lifting Up Our Praise to God So I hope you all liked the worship dance that was presented by women’s group. They prepared for weeks for this worship dance. It’s a short song, but for them to all move like that, it takes a […]

Scripture Passage Mark 10:35-45 The Request of James and John 35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” 36 And he said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” 37 And they said to […]

Scripture Reading Galatians 6:7-10 Sermon Text Scripture Passage Galatians 6:7-10 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not […]

Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Sermon Audio Sermon Text Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise […]

Scripture Passages Exodus 4:10-17 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 {Transcript} Sermon Text But Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” Then the Lord said to him, “Who […]

Scripture Passage {Passage Unavailable} Sermon Audio Sermon Text Scripture Passage {Passage Unavailable} Unwanted I was thinking, what is the most important thing to remember for ourselves? What is the most important thing that we need to continuously remind ourselves with? I think the most important and also the most beautiful thing is that we are […]

Scripture Passage Habakkuk 3:17-19 Sermon Text Scripture Passage Habakkuk 3:17-19 Though the fig tree does not blossom,     and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails,     and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold,     and there is no herd in the stalls, yet […]