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“May we not let our intellect limit what God can do in our lives.” - @joyshuo Ps. Joy shared from Luke 2 about how we may Make Room for God in our lives. This starts with having an open heart and mind, and consciously making space by surrendering our time to God. Lastly, actively saying yes to God, even when we may not fully understand where, why and how God is moving. We pray that you were blesse...

“God’s intervention in our lives is purely the gracious, full initiative and sovereign action of His alone.” - @janicechinchern Pst Janice asked us to ponder about the But God moments in our life- our need for His rescue, God’s motivation for intervening in His love for us, and the reality of this, now that we are made alive in Christ. May we desire a deepened knowledge of how His grace has saved...

“The resurrection matters because the issue of our sin and our souls longing for a story that helps make sense of all of the painful realities of life, find its fulfilment in the resurrection.” - @andrejosiah Ps. Andre brought us a powerful message on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, expounding on how it is intellectually credible and existentially satisfying. When Jesus died and resurrected from...

“Between our desire for God to move how we want Him to, and our struggle to let go of what we have, we miss out on how King Jesus truly wants to work in our lives and through us.” - @timothyshaun In Week 5 of our Lenten Series, Timothy shared from the Gospel of Mark of how the Jewish people who wanted a King that would bring restoration, freedom from oppression and fulfilment of promises but faile...

“Our submission to God, when based on God’s affection toward us, is the kind of submission that Jesus exemplified.” - @janicechinchern Pst Janice continued our Lent series, Christ Our Example, with a sermon on Following in His Submission. Unpacking Jesus’ experience in the garden of gethsemane, Pst Janice reminded us of how Jesus embraced the anguish of His impending crucifixion, and yet, ultimate...

361. Christ Our Example: Following in His Forgiveness // Timothy Seow by The City, Singapore

“The way we follow in Jesus’s suffering is to allow God to redeem our suffering, transforming it to fully live into, with and through the pains of life.” - @janicechinchern In week 2 of our Lenten series, Ps. Janice gave a word on following in Jesus’ suffering, and brought us through scripture that teaches us how to view suffering and its place in our lives. When we follow in Jesus’ suffering, we...

“The call to discipleship is the call to imitate Christ. When we imitate Christ, it cultivates intimacy with Him, to know him and who he is.” - @janicechinchern In week 1 of our Lenten series, Christ Our Example, Ps. Janice brought us a word on The Call to Follow. When we make the decision to claim Jesus as lord & saviour of our lives, we are also deciding to die to ourselves, living a new life in...

“God’s presence among his people has always been his heart. God’s vision was not a building to belong in, but a people to walk among.” @andrejosiah Pst Andre concluded our vision series with sharing from 1 Chronicles 13, and the life of Obed Edom, on how we may become “A Resting Place for the Presence”. More than hunger and desire, God is looking for a people who would acknowledge that He is Holy...

“Parents are to be the primary disciplers of their children. One of the primary functions of the home is to facilitate an environment of discipleship for our children.” - @andrejosiah In week 2 of our Vision series, Ps Andre brought us a word on “The Revival of Domestic Discipleship”. In today’s society, a child’s spiritual growth isn’t usually a parent’s key priority. However, through examples in...

“God doesn’t just want a people for Himself; He wants the hearts of His people.” - @andrejosiah Pst Andre started our 2023 vision series with a sermon on the pursuit of wholeheartedness. While the fallen state of our hearts are desperately wicked, as described in Jeremiah 17:9, Pst Andre reminded us of the good news - that in Jesus we have received a new heart in a divine act of grace. For us to b...

“Where is that place that you can be rooted in, where God delights in you the most? What does that look like for you on a daily basis?" We had the honour of hearing Xianyi speak on “To Know the Love that Surpasses Knowledge”. Drawing from Ephesians 3:14-19, Xianyi shared his story on how he came to start understanding the love of God, and how God, through His Spirit, wants to expand our capacity t...

“God calls us to turn to Him. When we confess our sins and commit our hearts to Him, He surely hears us, because of His unfailing love.” - @janicechinchern . In our very first service of the year, Ps Janice opened with a sermon titled “Turning”, sharing out of Nehemiah 9. As we look through the text, we are reminded that despite of the repeated sin and disobedience of the God’s people, we see God’...

“His light is precisely what we see most clearly in the darkness. It is in our dark world, that the Messiah shines.” - @janicechinchern We celebrated Christmas as a church family, and Pst Janice called on us to remember how Jesus has changed our lives. As we celebrate, we remember that in darkness, has come a great light; one of hope and rescue because of God’s great love for us. This festive seas...

“Like the Magi, we must go out of our way to come before Jesus, on bended knee. He alone is our hope in the darkness we face before the Second Advent.” - @timothyshaun On week 3 of our series “Postures of Advent”, we had Tim bring us a word on being on bended knees before Jesus, like the wise men who bowed down and worshipped Him in Matthew 2:11. Tim then spoke on what each of the 3 gifts the Magi...

“God reveals Himself to ordinary people and meets them where they are.” - @janicechinchern Ps Janice brought us a word titled “Lifted Heads” for week two of the Posture of Advent series. Sharing from Luke 2, we learned that the shepherds lifted their gaze in seemingly ordinary moments and was bestowed with the wonderful news of Christ’s birth. In faith, they responded with haste and enthusiasm, be...

“God cannot give Himself to us unless our hands are ready to receive Him” - @janicechinchern In Week One of the Posture of Advent Series, Ps Janice spoke on the posture of “Open Hands”. Guiding us through the advent story in Luke 1:26-34, we glean into the life of Mary as she receives the promise of the Messiah, Jesus. The posture that Mary took as she encountered the angel. - with open hands, in...

“Remembering who God is and what he has done for us is central to our faith whereas forgetting God and what He has done is one of the enemy's greatest plan to destroy your faith.” - @andrejosiah Ps Andre brought an inspiring and provoking message titled, “Year In Review: Remembering Your Baptism”. As followers of Jesus, we too can fall into a spiral of forgetfulness, being careless and distracted...

“No task is too small or insignificant to be used by God for the purposes of cultivating the earth in the image of His Kingdom.” - @yeosx Xuan brought us a word on why Our Work Matters. Sharing from Genesis 2, Xuan reminded us that work is fundamental to how God has made us, and that it is essential to our emotional and spiritual well being. As we continue to navigate the constant cycle of work an...

“Righteousness is to live according to the original intent of God, and be in right standing with God. Righteousness is right living with God.” - David Tan We had the privilege of having one of our members, David Tan, bring us a word on “Crave Righteousness” and what it means as a believer and follower of Jesus Christ. He summarised craving righteousness into 3 points: to be whole, secure in who we...

"If we are to take the idea of following Jesus seriously, then we also need to take the idea of an adversary seriously as well." -@andrejosiah Pst. Andre shared about Spiritual Conflict and how we wrestle with the reality of a presence of evil in our world as believers today. Yet, we have a great hope in Jesus who has overcome death, hell and the grave. By remembering who our enemy is, resisting t...

“As People of the Way, we point people to Jesus, call them to repentance and teach all that Jesus has commanded and made known to us.” - @janicechinchern Ps. Janice brought us a word on being People of the Way, in line with our passion statement: to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do the works of Jesus in this city. She spoke on how we need all 3 aspects to be compelling, whole-life disciple...

“God wants to bring us to a place where we realise that our own hope is God. Not scheming but surrendering, not bargaining but begging.” - @danielchua Ps Daniel Chua brought a fiery word titled “A Duel with God.” Reading out of Genesis 32:22-31, Ps Daniel encouraged us from the life of Jacob, moving from Jabbok to Peniel. From being on the run, to wrestling the angel we see Jacob’s transformation...

“Our ability to love God and people is tied to our revelation of God’s love towards us.” - @jasonchua.sg Speaking out of John 17, Jason brought a passionate exposition this morning titled “John 17: Jesus’s Desire”. As we explore further into the language of oneness in Jesus’s prayer in John 17, we discover a 2-fold desire that Jesus desires - a resting place among a people and a bridal union with...

“We are called to dream with God for our role in the flourishing of humanity.” - @andrejosiah Concluding our Life Together series, Ps. Andre encouraged us with a sermon titled “It’s Time To Dream Again”. Dreams function like a map for the road of life. Without dreams, we just wander in circles. We get sucked into the tyranny of the urgent, always reacting to the present never envisioning a future...