The City SG Podcast

“There are 2 primary ways that people eat in the natural: 1. Picking and choosing what we eat; 2. Omakase, which means to trust the chef and eating what he gives to eat, in the order that he gives, and eating however much he gives. Omakase should be the way we approach eating the scroll - we should not pick and choose. We need to eat the whole scripture because we have to trust that God has preser...

“This is God’s invitation - if you step on the edge of the river, He will roll back the waters and you will walk on dry ground.” - Cassandra Lee Guest speaker Cassandra Lee shared a message on Crossing The River. Drawing from Joshua 3, she shared on how when we fix our gaze on the Lord, and surrender our fears to Him, God will show up and do the rest. As a church community, may we be willing to cr...

“In Jesus’ vision for life in the kingdom, there is nothing more important than becoming the kind of people who first receive and then give love.” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre wrapped up our sermon series on Spiritual Practices speaking on how Love is The End Goal. He reminded us about the significance of love - and in contrast - what our love towards God and men should look like. After the messag...

“Our faith is not in our ability to hear, but in the love of our Father.” - @andrejosiah Ps. Andre shared on the spiritual practice of Discernment. When we desire to hear God’s voice, we will want to hear it in the face of big decisions just as much as when life is uneventful. Because it’s not about getting it right, it’s about being found in His love. May we grow in trusting the will of the Fathe...

“The end goal is to grow to be the kind of people who do good works without thinking of it, let alone thinking much of it.” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre spoke on the practice of Secrecy in Week 8 of our sermon series on Spiritual Practices. In a cultural climate of approval addiction and the drug of applause and admiration, Jesus proposes a radical alternative - living for the audience of One. May...

“Into a world of brokenness, hopelessness and deprivation, we can be the light in the darkness; we can be the people of God.” - Pastor Andre Tan We celebrated our 10th Anniversary! As we celebrated this milestone - 10th anniversary, Pst Andre shared on our calling as a Creative Minority - to be in the world but not of it, to be a beacon of light in our City for generations to come. H encouraged us...

“The Holy Spirit is the author of the word of God, and the author of the story of our lives.” - Pastor Matthew Chern In Week 7 of our series on Spiritual Practices, Ps Matthew dives into the topic of Scripture and how integral it is to know God through knowing His Word. Let us practice continually feeding on God’s word as we learn to love Him more.

“It is said the average iPhone user touches his/her phone 2,617 times a day. Can you imagine what your life would look like if you allowed God to touch your mind as much as you touched your phone?” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre shared a powerful message about prayer in the sixth installment of the Spiritual Practices sermon series. He shared about the power and potential of cultivating a life of pr...

“Our culture both hinders and necessitates the practice of solitude.” - Pastor Janice Chin Ps Janice continued our sermon series on Spiritual Practices with a message on solitude - the practice of being absent to people and things in order to be present with God. She encouraged us to cultivate the practice in our daily lives, and in doing so, discover God in a place of provision where we can be sh...

“God built a rhythm into the fabric of creation, one of work and rest.” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre Tan spoke on the practice of Sabbath in his sermon series on Spiritual Practices this morning. He reminded us about the commandment of having intentional rest directed to God. He shared that in a culture of exhaustion and busyness, Jesus comes to offer us rest for our souls. May we be a people of r...

“Fasting - it’s not a willpower exercise, it’s a divine exchange. In fasting, we starve the flesh and feast on the spirit.” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre shared on the practice of Fasting in the next installation of his sermon series on Spiritual Practices. There is an undeniable relationship between fasting and freedom. Through fasting, we adopt a willing abstinence from food, restrain from glutto...

“No matter how much potential we have in us, we cannot actualise and live into that vision apart from practice.” - Pastor Andre Tan Week 2 of our sermon series titled “Spiritual Practices”. Ps. Andre spoke about the importance of Wise Training. To become who we are to be, may we remember that it isn’t a matter of working harder, but focusing on training ourselves wisely in living out these spiritu...

“There is a central place for self effort in your apprenticeship with Jesus.” - Pastor Andre Tan In our new sermon series titled Spiritual Practices, Ps. Andre Tan highlighted the importance of Formation Through Practice. When we curate our hearts and purposefully cultivate spiritual habits and activities, we will be enabled to lead extraordinary and transformed lives. Join us on this nine-week jo...

“The good news of the gospel cannot remain as a message from a text. It needs to be lived out daily.” - Axel Tan Axel brought us a message on The Gospel in 2019, and challenged us to think about what the gospel looks like to us today. He also gave us a few useful tools on how to be the herald of good news to the people around us, with the primary way being to experience the good news of the gospel...

“As we grow in the fear of the Lord, we get to know God as the God who delivers.” Pastor Janice Chern Ps Janice preached on the Tale of Two Fears - the fears we are delivered from and the fear of God in our lives. She encouraged us to grow in our consciousness of God and in exercising humility in our walk with Him. May we grow in our knowledge of God, and in our reverence for His greatness and sov...

“God can use what is in your hand to wrought the work of His hand.” - Pastor Matthew Chern Ps. Matthew spoke this morning on What is in Your Hand?: From faithfulness to fruitfulness. He shared that if God can use a lifeless rod in Moses’ hand to do great works, God can similarly use our hands to do all things for His purposes. May we consider the things in our hands; taking the seemingly small, in...

“If you want to see it, you’ve got to seed it” - Gary Morgan Guest Speaker Gary Morgan came to speak today reminding us that it is through the mundane that seem insignificant that God can bring His significance to the world around us. He further shared that it’s important for us to embrace the process of sowing seeds in our lives, as God is concerned with the process. In closing, he encouraged eve...

“The right response and the proper prayer is not “Father, save me”, but “Father, glorify Your name”.” - Pastor Daniel Chua Ps Daniel shared this morning on The Proper Response, and how we can respond rightly to God in the face of difficult circumstances. He highlighted the importance of dying to our own wants and needs of self preservation, and prioritising God’s will, such that He may be magnifie...

“The primary fight against the devil is the fight to believe truth over lies” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre shared a powerful message today about fighting the devil, talking about the strategies and methods that satan employs to thwart our walk with God, and emphasised that the battlegrounds on which we fight is that of our mind. May we take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ!

“Self-denial is the painful and arduous process where we reorder our desires, through practice and perseverance, to the way of Jesus.” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre spoke on postures of our time and place, in particular self-denial in an age of self-fulfilment. He explored how in following Jesus, He has called us to take up our cross, and to die to one’s self - our disordered desires and our flesh...

“God’s love demands that He operates on divine timing and sees us through divine process.” Pastor Janice Chern Ps. Janice shared on having faith even in the face of delays and difficulties in her sermon, Even Now: Jesus Can Always Do Something. How do we encounter the resurrection power of God, if we don’t face difficulties? He puts us through the process of pruning, and in His perfect time, He he...

“It is imperative that we understand the heart of the Father, in the midst of pruning. Only then will we respond by trusting His leadership, and being grateful for His intervention in our life.” - @melenawu Melena Wu shared this morning on how the Father is committed to our fruitfulness in her sermon, Abiding in Love: The Glorious Promise of Pruning. When we begin to recognise God’s role as the vi...

“Women are image bearers, not just images to amuse the sexual appetite of men. The gospel overturns any small, diminishing, and often degrading message for women with a clarion call to live within the boundless parameters Jesus defines - to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength”.” - Pastor Andre Tan Ps. Andre continued part 2 of his sermon...

“To be like Jesus is to place value on people, even when one’s culture doesn’t.” - Pastor Andre Tan In his Mother’s Day message - Half The Sky: Jesus, Women and the Church, Ps. Andre shared on the vital role that women play in the kingdom of God. Historically, women have been oppressed. Here in The City, we believe that the community of God should be the epicenter of flourishing for both men and w...

“Our role is not to decorate the cross and to entice the world, but to be faithful in our witness and our testimony of Jesus.” - Jason Chua Jason Chua spoke on Will He Find Faith: Remaining Steadfast to The End in our Sunday service. He shared about staying faithful, and choosing the better portion. He encouraged us to be like Mary in the Bible, who remained steadfast and undistracted in the midst...