St Timothy Presbyterian Church in Toronto: Sermons

Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Sermon Text The Work of The Hidden Spirit Thank you for the beautiful anthem. The spirit is the gift given by God. When Jesus left this world, Jesus left, sent the Holy Spirit as the gift. The disciples were very anxious when Jesus left. There were a lot of persecutions […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 43:1-7 Sermon Text Life is a Beautiful Struggle Thank you choir, every week it is a blessing to listen to your beautiful anthem, let us thank them again. Life can be very hard. Is there anybody who can say life is really easy for you? When I said that to Korea in […]

Scripture Passage Ephesians 3:1-12 Sermon Text Paul’s Burden St Paul said he had become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace. He said he was the very least of all the saints, the saints meaning Christians. He’s saying that he is the least of all Christians. He wasn’t not saying this just out […]

Scripture Passage Luke 2:41-52 Sermon Text The Passover For Mary, celebrating the Passover was nothing out of the ordinary. It was something that she did each year, like how we celebrate Christmas and any religious holidays. Her family, her friends and her relatives made long trips to the temple in Jerusalem to take part in […]

Scripture Passage Isaiah 52:7-10 Sermon Text Human Sins I see a lot of new faces today. Welcome to the worship service. Just one family filled the whole pew there. So I welcome all of you to this special Christmas Sunday’s service. The book of Isaiah, the one that you just heard was written in the […]

Scripture Passage Zephaniah 3:14-17 Sermon Text Zephaniah It’s just a wonderful thing to do once a week, coming to church and enjoying the music, being uplifted, meditate, and hear the message. I think it’s wonderful that we are able to do that. We reflected on joy last week, we discussed the joy that comes from […]

Scripture Passage Philippians 1:3-6 Sermon Text Paul’s Joy St Paul was very thankful when thinking about the church at Philippi. Whenever he prayed for the Church people at Philippi he felt this tremendous joy. The whole letter of Philippians is like a thank you letter from the beginning to the end. You see the thankfulness […]

Scripture Passage Luke 21:25-36 Sermon Text The Meaning of Advent The onset of Christmas music everywhere and shopping malls full of people can mean only one thing. That the season of Advent has begun. These days when I’m in the car ride with my kids, the first thing Nathan asked me is, “can I turn […]

Scripture Passage John 18:33-38 Sermon Text King of Jews Today is Christ the king the Sunday we celebrate that Jesus is a king. There is a Church calendar, It’s different from the calendar we are using, and according to the Church calendar today is the last Sunday, and starting from next week the New Year […]

Scripture Passage 1 Samuel 1:4-20 Sermon Text Rev. In Kee Kim: Thank you choir for the beautiful music. Samuel was a very important person in the Old Testament. He kind of made a new history for Israel. Until Samuel Israel had no king, leaders just arose from anywhere and took over and then they fought […]

Scripture Passage Mark 12:38-44 Sermon Text Introduction The focus of today’s story is on the widow, not the scribes. The widow was insignificant and almost invisible in their society, but somehow Mark focuses on the story of the widow, not the scribes who are powerful, visible, influential, popular. Mark brings up the lowly, not the […]

Scripture Passage Mark 12:28-34 (*Due to technical difficulties, only a portion of the sermon was recorded. We apologize for the mishap.) Sermon Text Introduction Thank you choir, beautiful music. Today’s scripture is probably the most important passage in the entire Bible. Of all the teachings of Jesus Christ, It is the core of Jesus’ teaching. […]

Scripture Passage Acts 1:8 Sermon Text Sacrifice Beautiful music. God is so good, and also thank you for your special music today. It was very, very inspiring. You inspire me because you also come out early in the morning to sing in KSM service. There’s no KSM, there’s no ESM. We are one church. And […]

Scripture Passage Job 38:1-7, 34-41 Sermon Text Introduction That was a beautiful anthem. Thank you. When you’re going through tough and difficult times, one thing that we most often hear is silence. We hear nothing but our own voices. God seems silent and absent from us. Someone put it this way, a door slammed in […]

Scripture Passage Mark 10:17-31 Sermon Text Introduction That should be our existence and thank you, John, for leading us in very meaningful prayer and devotion. That is what worship is about, we are not here just to go through the motion of worship, but we want to be connected with God. Today’s story is a […]

Scripture Passage 1 Timothy 6:6-10 Sermon Text Introduction Blessed we are to have a choir and every week we come and have a time of reflection and have some time with God and you know, once a week coming here and reflecting upon our lives and about God and worshiping God, it’s just such a […]

Scripture Passage Psalm 19:7-14 Sermon Text Our Thoughts Form Us Our thinking controls our life, our thinking controls our emotions, our decisions, our lifestyle, and our future. If I think that I’m ugly constantly, then I’ll become ugly. If I think that I’m miserable, then ultimately I’ll become miserable. That’s what happens. Thinking is very […]

Scripture Passage Psalm 1 Sermon Text Happy People, I want all of you to be happy and also, I want to be happy too. NRSV translates the beginning of Psalm 1 with these words, “Happy are those.” so these are the people who are happy. The reason it didn’t say, “Blessed are those” where NIV […]

Scripture Passage James 3:1-12 Sermon Text Smile! Thank you choir for the beautiful anthem. That is a hymn that we sang a lot at my father’s funeral, it reminded me of my father’s funeral. And thank you praise team. Wonderful, really inspirational praise. Two weeks ago, I think two weeks ago or a few weeks […]

Scripture Passage Matthew 6:25-33 Sermon Text With New Beginnings Come New Worries It’s good to have our choir back and also the full praise team. It was quite a powerful time of praise. As Jonathan shared, it’s the 2nd week of September and there’s kind of a lot of changes. The weather is ready for […]

Scripture Passage 2 Corinthians 5:17 Sermon Text Change in Hi-C As we get older, when we ask each other what’s been up, it becomes more and more like, “ahh same old, same old.” But for teens, change is perhaps the only constant thing in their life. And this was the theme of our Hi-C youth […]

In this week's sermon, Rev. In Kee discusses the excitement and fear when entering a new stage of life. As we enter into the unknown, let us live with humility, courage and hope. Our lives are in God's wonderful plan.

In this week's sermon, Rev. In Kee explores what a good flow of life is like. We should live joyfully, prayerfully, and thankfully, without seizing and in all circumstances. Sometimes we will lose balance, but eventually, we have to go back to the natural spiritual rhythm of life that is joyful, thankful, and prayerful.

Scripture Passage Ephesians 4:29-32 {Transcript} Sermon Text Why Be Kind? Today I want to talk about kindness. Why do we need to be kind? There’s no reason to be kind. You’re kind because that is what we do. You’re kind because that is what it means to be human. There was a man who went […]

Scripture Passage Ephesians 4:1-6 {Transcript} Sermon Text Oneness I’d like to talk about oneness. Oneness is very important. St. Paul emphasized oneness very much. Oneness is kind of a harmony being together… it is in perfect harmony, that’s what oneness is. We don’t see oneness very much around us in this world. We are living […]