St Timothy Presbyterian Church in Toronto: Sermons

Scripture Passage Colossians 3:1-11 Sermon Text We Are What We Think I was thinking about what shapes us. Isn’t it what we are thinking? We are what we think, we are not what we eat. We are shaped by what we think. Happy people are filled with good thoughts. Unhappy people, on the other hand, […]

Scripture Passage Luke 11:1-13 Sermon Text Egg and Scorpion Thank you very much choir and thank you also praise team. What a beautiful gift of music that God gives us to worship. Today’s passage is about prayer and that is the title, actually of the sermon. Life of prayer, I’m thinking that bulletin says egg […]

Scripture Passage Luke 10:38-42 Sermon Text A Special Family Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. These three people were very special to Jesus. They had a bond. They were very close to each other. They were sisters and brothers, and they lived in Bethany. Jesus often went to their house. After Jesus said, “Foxes have holes, and […]

Scripture Reading Luke 10:25-37 Sermon Text The Good Samaritan What the Samaritan did was not such a big deal. Jesus didn’t even use the word Good Samaritan. That’s what we came up with. The scripture doesn’t say Good Samaritan. Jesus never said Good Samaritan. The real point of this story is not about the greatness […]

Scripture Passage Luke 10:1-11 Sermon Text A Life of Discipleship In this passage, we discover that Jesus’ disciples were not just twelve disciples. We are familiar with twelve disciples, but actually, in Jesus’ time, there were many people who followed Jesus and wanted to be the disciples of Jesus. And Jesus sent 70 people among […]

Scripture Passage Luke 9:51-62 Sermon Text A Disciple, A Follower We are the disciples who follow Jesus and Jesus teaches us about the disciples. Discipleship is in today’s passage. It wasn’t easy, though, to take what Jesus said. “Is that really the kind of discipleship that I can follow?” We wonder. Someone came to him […]

Scripture Passage Genesis 11:1-9 Sermon Text Introduction In today’s scripture, the word chaos comes to my mind as I picture what is going on at Babel Tower. The language was confused and they were scattered all over the place on the whole face of the earth. They could not live in the city. They built […]

Scripture Passage John 5:1-9a Sermon Text Bethesda: You read this story today and I would like to reflect with you. What is the implication of that story? What is the message from that story? There was a man who had been sick for 38 years and a pool called Bethesda. Sometimes it’s called Bethesda. The […]

Scripture Passage Acts 11:1-18 Sermon Text Peter’s Change Two weeks ago we reflected on the change of the same Paul, his change was not a nonreligious person becoming a religious person. He was very religious. Today we read about Peter’s Change. Paul and Peter, these two are the pillars of Christianity. So we reflected on […]

Scripture Passage 1 John 4: 7-12 Sermon Text Parents Sacrifice because of Love Happy Mother’s Day to everyone. Happy Mother’s Day. Thank you, Edward. I’m going to talk about the love and sacrifice of our parents since today’s Mother’s Day. As some of you may know, Peter Lee, who is KSM praise team leader had […]

Scripture Passage Acts 9:1-9 Sermon Text Change is Possible Today’s story is about the incident that changed Paul completely and radically. As you know, Paul was the most important person, who took Jesus’ message and ministry and all the way to create Christianity, as we know. Paul’s thoughts are the basis of what we believe […]

Scripture Passage John 20:19-23 Sermon Text Introduction You know, post-Easter is a time of different seasons, right? We have changes, things that depart and also arrivals, so it’s great to see, for example, the college and university students, welcome back from a year of hard study and looking forward to a great summer with all […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 65:17-25 Sermon Text Our Past and Our Present Life This moment now is not the past, but even though this moment now is not the past, it is very much connected with the past. Who I am did not come into existence all of a sudden, or out of nowhere. Our present […]

Small Group Ministry! Please see below for the sermon audio, text, and discussion questions. Discussion Questions are at the bottom, so please scroll down to see them! Scripture Passage Isaiah 50:4-9 Sermon Transcript We Should Treat Each Other with Dignity I’m going to talk about humiliation and dignity, a very important message actually. How do […]

Scripture Passage Exodus 16:2-8, 13-16 Guest Speaker: Rev. John Bannerman (Presbyterian World Service & Development) Sermon Text Rev. Chung:  Today, we have a guest speaker from PWS&D (Presbyterian World Service & Development). It is an arm of our denomination for helping people who are in need. So today we are collecting a special offering for […]

Scripture Passage Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Sermon Transcript – Compassion for Sinners Reflecting on the father’s heart I was reflecting on the father’s heart. Deep in his heart, the father was calling out to his son to come home.  I thought about the younger son. He was pretty bad. Seeing him I was kind of even […]

Small Group Ministry! Please see below for the sermon audio, text, and discussion questions. Discussion Questions are at the bottom, so please scroll down to see them! Scripture Passage Luke 13:1-9 Sermon Text (with audio time stamps) Tragedy in the World Then and Now [00:00:12] In today’s scripture, Jesus was talking about what was going […]

God will reveal and disclose what is in our hearts. Courage is not fearlessness.

Scripture Passage Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Sermon Text Everything that is around us is beautiful! The birds are singing and spring is coming, so it’s nice to remind ourselves how beautiful it is, how grateful you are and how we should always be thankful. It is very important to understand that everything that is happening in our […]

Scripture Passage 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 Sermon Text Strive for Freedom: Freedom is very important for our meaningful existence and that’s why freedom is very, very precious. It is something that we should hold on to. We should never let go. We should never take it for granted. This freedom is something very precious and every […]

Scripture Passage Luke 6:27-36 Sermon Text Conditioned Love As Edward read today’s passage. Today’s passage is such a hard one. I can think of two major reasons why this passage is so hard for me. First of all, this passage is about love. Love is not easy. When we were young, we would like to […]

Scripture Passage Jeremiah 17:5-10 Sermon Text The Journey of Jeremiah Thank you so much to the choir for that beautiful anthem. Thank you all so much to the praise team. What a blessing. The gift of music is a real blessing. There are some ways that can only speak to the heart that certain forms […]

Scripture Passage Luke 5:1-11 Sermon Text Rev. In Kee Kim: Jesus Calls the First Disciples Thank you choir. Theme of today’s story is the fish, so I want to talk about the fish today. Peter and John and James were partners in business and they were all fishermen. Their lives were centred around the fish. […]

Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Sermon Text Love the Lord Your God And Olivia especially appreciates that you follow the lectionary and choose the songs that are right on the lectionary. It really helps worship coherent and together. So today we’re going to reflect on love. Love is the most beautiful thing. That’s what love […]

Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 Sermon Text Dissension Between The Strong & Weak   Our last few weeks and including next week. I think the lectionary focuses on the Corinthian church but as you know, very well there were a lot of problems at Corinthian church. Their strong division among members within the Corinthian church. Corinth […]