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Back for this week known as the Passion Week, we turn to the final words of the cross as we reflect on Jesus's death and resurrection. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? - Matthew 27:46 The Daily, is a podcast of The City. This is our humble attempt to bring a compelling alternative...

When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,”and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. - John 19:26-27 Back for this week known as the Passion Week, we turn to the final words of the cross as we reflect on Jesus's death and resurrection. The Daily, is a podcast o...

And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” - Luke 23:43 Back for this week known as the Passion Week, we turn to the final words of the cross as we reflect on Jesus's death and resurrection. The Daily, is a podcast of The City. This is our humble attempt to bring a compelling alternative story to the endless barrage of information and news that we are...

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do - Luke 23:34 Back for this week known as the Passion Week, we turn to the final words of the cross as we reflect on Jesus's death and resurrection. The Daily, is a podcast of The City. This is our humble attempt to bring a compelling alternative story to the endless barrage of information and news that we are exposed to. As you...

“The ability to receive correction is the distinctive mark of true wisdom” - Daniel Chua Ps. Daniel continued with the fifth installment of our Experiencing God Together series, touching on the topic of Embracing Correction. He reminded us about the importance of humbly receiving correction in our lives, and shared 5 ways in which we can receive correction from others. May we be a community of mut...

“We need each other and have a ministry of mutual exhortation: to help each other hear God in the midst of suffering and to encourage each other to keep going all the way.” - @danielchua Pst Daniel continued our Experiencing God Together series and shared an encouraging message on Finishing Strong Together. He reminded us of the road bumps we face in our daily lives, and how we need each other as...

“There is an undeniable link between suffering and true joy, that makes us able to withstand greater storms in life.” - @janicechinchern Continuing on with part 3 of our series on Experiencing God Together, Ps. Janice spoke on “In Our Sufferings”. As Christians, we’re not just called to salvation and worship, but also to partake in suffering. When we experience suffering, may we not just go throug...

"Worship must encompass service, submission and reverence to God.” - Janice Chern Ps. Janice shared this morning on When We Worship, as part of our sermon series on Experiencing God Together. She reminded us that worship requires and assumes a lifestyle of obedience to God, tutoring our hearts to look beyond ourselves, and posturing our hearts to focus on God. May we take time to examine our heart...

“We don’t regather to just experience a semblance of what we had before, but to strengthen ourselves to counter the pervasive cultural narrative and truly be faithful and fruitful followers of Christ.” - @centuryeggtart Ps. Janice shared on When We Gather in our new sermon series on Experiencing God Together. We need a resilient discipleship to counter the pervasive cultural narrative that could c...

“This is Team City - we go the extra mile so others can experience Jesus.” - @danielchua Ps Daniel preached an encouraging word to our Team City volunteers, in our first service back at church. Reminding us that we are stronger together, Ps Daniel shared from Ecclesiastes 4, on our part within God’s greater whole, and how we accomplish and have more when we are together. More importantly, that we...

In our first ever episode of "Inside Our City", we invited Ps Janice Chern to share a bit about her life and thoughts. Ps Janice first visited us at our Christmas Service in 2018 with her husband Matthew & their two kids. She later joined us as our pastor of spiritual formation, and now also oversees our lifegroups. Ps Janice grew up in Kota Kinabalu. After 8 years of pastoral ministry there, she...

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“God is not just the lover of our souls, but also the lover of our lives. Surrender yourselves to Him because He is much better at living our lives than we are.” - @danielchua Ps. Daniel shared an empowering message on God’s fire, reminding us that our hearts and lives should be marked with the fire of God. He urged us as a community to seek God first constantly in 2021, and to rebuild the altars...

“God is calling us to flourish as oaks of righteousness by trusting in Him so that we can be rebuilders of broken areas of our lives and society.” - @centuryeggtart Ps. Janice shared a message this morning on Trusting and Rebuilding. Taking reference from various passages of scripture, she highlighted how the righteous in the bible are reckoned as such because of their trust in the Lord, and are o...

“Pride is the kingdom of darkness in seed form while humility is the kingdom of God in seed form. Whatever we choose to plant will grow and produce fruit in our midst.” - @andrejosiah Continuing on from last week’s sermon “That You May Pray”, this week Ps Andre spoke on the topic of humility and its importance in our lives. Speaking from 1 Peter 5, we can see that God opposes the proud & self-reli...

“As a church, we are going to up the ante on prayer in 2021: both a greater prioritization on prayer and a greater belief in the power of our prayers to shape the course of human history.” - @andrejosiah In our first service of 2021, Ps Andre called our church to stay sober-minded and alert, that we may pray and seek God in the uncertain times we live in. Preaching from 1 Peter 4, Ps Andre reminde...

“In this crucible moment of a year, how have we fared as God’s people living in these complex times? Did we give in or did we stand firm?” - Pst @andrejosiah In the final sermon for the year, Pst Andre led us to reflect on 2020, and how, despite the shaking and change, we have seen God’s hand at work in our lives and community and how we have much to be grateful for. As we look ahead to the new ye...

“When we are blessed would we consider increasing our standard of loving as supposed to our standard of living?” - @andrejosiah In this sermon, Ps Andre spoke on the topic of finances, putting forward a vision of how we - as God’s people - are to be a people who exhibit a provocative generosity. With every act of generosity, we declare that our allegiance is not to the spirit of mammon, our affect...

“There are storms that are instructive rather than corrective. If God is working another perspective in you, trust that He is with you there in the storm, and He will get you across.” Ps. Janice shared about being In the storm with Jesus, taking reference from Mark 4:35-41. She reminded us that not all storms we experience in life are corrective, but can also be instructive - to give us perspectiv...

“This truth that Jesus put forward is a confronting and offensive truth because it calls for a qualitative transformation of the human condition, not just a quantitative adjustment or moral improvement.” - Max Jeganathan We had the great privilege of having Pst Max Jeganathan of RZIM share the word with us. He preached from the story of Nicodemus’ encounter with Jesus in John 3, and the aspects of...

“We must be different, to make a difference.” - @danielchua Ps. Daniel Chua shared on being A Peculiar People, and how we are not to be conformed by the systems of this world, but by what biblical wisdom tells us. Drawing from the story of Caleb, he reminded us that there is no retirement in the Kingdom - only refirement. In our lives, we ought to continually set our minds on the things above, who...

“Curses cannot be reversed by human accomplishment, they can only be overcome by blessing.” - @andrejosiah In this message on The Subversive Power of Blessing, Ps. Andre reminded us that according to the Bible, to bless someone, is to speak the intention of God over someone. Quoting Dallas Willard, a blessing is a projection of good into the life of another. How are we blessing the people/communit...

“The role of the five-fold ministry is of inclusion rather than exclusion. We are set apart to play our part in stewardship and servanthood.” We had the pleasure of having Ps. Gary Morgan speak to us about the five-fold factor. Speaking from Ephesians 2:19-22 and 4:11-16, he reminded us how the five-fold ministry should edify the body until we all come into the unity of the faith. Let us be a fami...

“If we want to be a missional family, we need to have missional relationships” - Jason Wong Jason Wong spoke on the topic of Missional Families. Taking reference from scripture and his rich experience as case studies, he touched on the importance of having missional relationships within a family across all levels: between children and parents, between spouses, and between man and God. Let us resto...

“Practicing simplicity restores in us restedness, wisdom, clarity in priorities, God’s perspectives in relationships, and our identity and purpose in Christ” - @centuryeggtart In this message of Restoring Simplicity, Ps. Janice focused on Matthew 6:25-34, where Jesus emphasises for us not to be anxious, but seek first His kingdom and His righteousness before all these other things are added to us....