The City SG Podcast

“If we’ve had a taste of this treasure, we would sell everything now to buy that treasure.” - @janicechinchern We had the honour of Ps Janice opening our lenten series, Jesus is Better with the topic “Jesus & The Better Kingdom”. Opening up this twin parables from Matthew 13:44-46, we understand that the Kingdom of God is the most valuble thing. And when you discover it, it’s worth giving up all t...

“God never intended spiritual language to be a proof of our baptism; rather, He offers it as a provision - a resource for prayer, praise and flourishing.” - @andrejosiah Ps. Andre spoke on Praying In Tongues in the final instalment of our That You May Pray series. In 1 Corinthians, Paul writes about his desire for all of us to speak in tongues. Tongues is not just a mere prayer language; it enable...

“The barrenness that we feel in our own personal lives or in a corporate measure sometimes is of the Lord to provoke us into a deeper place of intercession.” - @dhkdavidkim We had the honour of having Ps. David Kim speak to us on the topic of Sacrificial Intercession. In the Bible, we often see how people who were going through a season of barrenness, and God used those dimensions of barrenness to...

“Praying with persistence allows our Father to shift our perspective to see what He sees, and aligns our passions and priorities with His.” - @janicechinchern Pst Janice continued our sermon series, That You May Pray, this morning, with a sermon on Praying With Persistence. Drawing a contrast with the parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18, she reminded us that God, unlike the unjust judge, is...

“The revelation of God as Abba is critical to growing in intimacy, security, vulnerability, and authority in the place of prayer.” - @brotherrussell_ We had the privilege of having Ps. Corey Russell speak to us for week 3 of our series “That You May Pray”. He gave a breakdown on how Jesus taught His disciples to pray in Matthew 6:13 - that the core revelation of prayer is the revelation of God as...

“A rhema cannot be given by man, it has to come from God through long and loving meditation in the logos, and with the help of the spirit of revelation.” - @bob.sorge In week 2 of our That You May Pray series, Guest Speaker Bob Sorge shares with us on the Secrets of The Secret Place. We live by every word (rhema) of His mouth. The Dove of the spirit loves to come and rest on the word (logos), and...

“To live free from distraction that leads to disillusionment in God, pay attention to what you pay attention to. Attention leads to adoration.” - @andrejosiah Pst Andre kickstarted our new sermon series, That You May Pray, today. He challenged us to recapture the vision of God for our lives, beginning with refocusing our attention on Him. With distractions being the root of much spiritual bareness...

“God calls His people to hold the tension between engaging the culture in which we live in, while faithfully living distinct from it. This is holiness.” - @janicechinchern Ps Janice shared on A Community Marked by Holiness, and reminded us that God called us to be holy, for He is holy. Holiness is the process of being transformed into the likeness of God, and we are called to be wholly available a...

"Our hunger for God must be stronger than our hunger for food. Our culture of fasting must be stronger than our culture of gluttony.” - @andrejosiah Following on from last week’s sermon of A Community Marked By Humility, this week Ps. Andre called us to be A Community Marked By Hunger. In Matthew 5:6, Jesus said “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.”...

“If it is the poor in spirit that inherit the Kingdom of God, then it is the prideful that willfully exclude themselves from the Kingdom of God.” - @andrejosiah Ps. Andre opened the first service of the year calling for us to be A Community Marked By Humility. Speaking from The Beatitudes, he noted that a truly abundant and rich life is a result of a poverty of spirit - a personal acknowledgement...

“Jesus’ call to come and die is literal death for some, but self denial for all.” - @andrejosiah Ps Andre shared his last sermon for 2021, and called us to a time of reflection as we did a year in review as a church family. We reflected on what discipleship looked like in our individual lives and if we have truly followed Jesus well by being active in His mission, embodying His character and doing...

“Redemptive living means cultivating Spirit-empowered rhythms and relationships that create, redeem, sustain and transform the life God invites us to live.” - @janicechinchern In the final instalment of Our Missional Life series, Ps. Janice shares on Redemptive Living - God’s redemption plan, our part in it, and how we should then live. The mission of God is to reconcile all of us to Himself, so t...

“As we look forward to the ultimate restoration of all things, we have a responsibility on this side of eternity to reveal what that future glory looks like and the work that we were created to do.” @timothyshaun In Week 9 of Our Missional Life series, Timothy Seow shared on Work As Mission and how having a biblical vision of work frees us to live missional lives faithful to the call of God. As we...

“As God’s people, we are called to identify, participate and witness to God’s presence in the world.” - @janicechinchern In week 8 of the Our Missional Life series, Ps. Janice spoke on the Practice of Presence. As followers of Christ, we need to grow in the habit of being more aware and attentive of God’s presence to know what God is doing, and what He wants to do through us. So what does practici...

"He gives us three clues to guide us to find our calling - our abilities, our burdens and the critical defining moments in our lives.” - @jedibaba In Week 7 of Our Missional Life sermon series, guest speaker Dr Tan Soo Inn shared on Living Out God’s Story In The World. He shared on how our first call is to lay down our lives and follow Christ as His disciples. Our second call is to do the specific...

“The church’s call is to be a prophetic witness to the nations, like John the Baptist. The invitation is for us to make His dream ours, to become friends of the bridegroom.” - @andoryuutam Continuing our sermon series, Our Missional Life, Andrew brought us a word on being A Prophetic Witness - A Church like John. He reminded us about how prophesy is a vehicle of which we encounter God, and discove...

“Through healing, Jesus gave His audience a glimpse of what the fullness of the Kingdom of God will look like. They were signs, or pointers, to the future kingdom finding expression in the here and now.” Ps. Andre spoke on Healing The Sick as part of Our Missional Life series. Healing the sick was at the heart of Jesus’ life, mission and ministry. It was present to a large degree in the interactio...

“The kingdom of heaven is not just a future reality, but one that can be experienced, here and now." Pst Andre shared about the Kingdom of God and he reminded us of God’s heart for His people to partner with Him in establishing this reality in the world we live in. May we remember the grace of God that has called us to participate in His kingdom through missions, and to do the works of Jesus in ou...

“When it comes to hospitality, instead of “who is my neighbour?”, the question we ask ourselves should be “who can I be a neighbour to?”” - Ps. Leow Wen Pin We had the honour of having Ps. Wen Pin with us this morning to talk about the topic of hospitality, and what generous hospitality looks like. Speaking from the parable of the Good Samaritan, and sharing some stories of his own, we learn that...

“The only interpretation for which the world can come to understand the gospel is a church that believes it - ambassadors for Christ that embody the gospel like it were true. “ - @janicechinchern In the second installation of our sermon series on Our Missional Life, Ps. Janice shares on how God is on a mission to reconcile all of creation to Himself, so that He might reign with and live among His...

“A seminal question we all have to answer is: how do we convert worldly ambition into holy ambition? The goal isn’t to quell ambition, but to redirect it toward that which is pure, right and true.” - @andrejosiah Pst Andre kickstarted our new sermon series - Our Missional Life. He reminded us that the church is to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our world, with missions as our calling as the peo...

“As followers of Christ, we are called to imitate God in all things, which includes His incarnational love in the ways we fully enter into the life of other people.” - @danielchua Ps. Daniel spoke to us today on “Being in the World, but Not Of It”, a message that’s very close to his heart. He reminded us once again of our mission here on Earth, which is to be like Jesus in our city and wherever we...

“A life of compromise and apathy in the peaceful present does not lead to resilience and faithfulness in the perilous future. We do not stumble into steadfastness; it has to be forged, tested, and proven.” - @andrejosiah Pst Andre challenged us to recapture a vision for faithfulness to God as a community and in our individual lives. We learned lessons in faithfulness through the example of Daniel...

“To stay engaged as faithful followers, to hunger after God, to grow in depth and vibrancy, we need to cultivate practices in deliberate defiant pursuit for God in our lives.” - @janicechinchern Ps. Janice brought us the word, speaking primarily from 2 Corinthians 4:6-11. In her sermon, she mentioned how while we live in unsettling times, it’s easy to feel disengaged, overwhelmed or weary in our w...

“The essence of discipleship is not in the enjoyment of privilege, but in rendering service to others.” - @chrisvonne Christine shared this morning on The Sacredness of Servanthood, and reminded us that in the kingdom, the lowly place is the greater place. Jesus came not to be served, but to serve others. In the same manner, we are called to take on this selfless way of living - laying down our li...