The Gathering Sermons

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: July 5, 2026 Passage: Genesis 16 There is something satisfying about a good DIY project. But while a "do-it-yourself" mindset is great for fixing things around the house, it leads to trouble when we apply it to the promises of God. In Genesis 16, Abram and Sarai are exhausted from waiting for God’s promised child. Like many of...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 28th June, 2026 Passage: Genesis 15 As Christians, we readily confess that we trust God, yet we still wrestle with the “what abouts” of life—our health, our jobs, and our futures. There is often a gap between our faith in God’s promises and the anxiety we feel when facing difficult circumstances. In Genesis 15, we see that Abram, the fat...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 21st June, 2026 Passage: Genesis 13-14 Sermon Summary: Though Abram chose to worship God as He received God’s promise to him (Gen. 12:7), his story in Genesis 12 ends disappointingly. Not only does he ask his wife Sarai to lie to Pharaoh by telling him she’s his sister, not his wife (v.11-13), he also effectively sells her into Pharaoh’s h...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 14th June, 2026 Passage: Genesis 12

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 7th June, 2026 Passage: Genesis 10-11

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 31st May, 2026 Passage: Genesis 8-9 Sermon Summary: Genesis 6 tells us that every intention of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually, so much so that the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart. (v.5) Genesis 7 shows us the de-creation as God blotted out every living thing that was...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 24th May, 2026 Passage: Genesis 6-7 Sermon Summary: While Genesis 3 describes the line of Cain, Genesis 4 devotes itself to the line of Seth. Seth’s line includes Enoch who walked with God and was not, because he was taken by God. (v.23) Enoch fathered Methuselah, who is widely believed to be the oldest person in the Bible, and Methuselah...

Reading Genesis 5 can feel a bit like reading a math textbook, just a long list of names, ages, and numbers. It’s tempting to skip it, but we believe that there’s value in all of Scripture. God speaks to us in this genealogy. Adam and Eve rebelled in Genesis 3, and sin spread quickly. By chapter 4, not only does Cain murder his brother, but several generations later, Lamech even boasts about it. G...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: May 10, 2026 Passage: Genesis 4 In Genesis 4, we see how quickly the rebellion of the Garden spirals out of control. Genesis 4 is "Genesis 3+1"—the fallen falling further. The tragedy begins at the very first worship service. Abel gives God his first and best, but Cain merely offers his leftovers. God's rejection of Cain&#3...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 3rd May, 2026 Passage: Genesis 3

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 26th April, 2026 Passage: Genesis 2 Sermon Summary: As God finishes His work of creation, He gives to mankind a blueprint for perfect and good living. The rest and restoration of the Sabbath is part of this blueprint as God Himself rests on Adam’s first day (Gen. 2:2-3).  From verse 4 onwards, Genesis 2 zooms in to give us a micro view of...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 19th April, 2026 Passage: Genesis 2:1-3 Sermon Summary: On the seventh day of creation, God finished all the work He had done.  He finished, and rested—then He blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because of His rest .  This idea of rest is central to the Sabbath: in Exodus 16 (its first mention), Moses tells the people that the Sabba...

Series: The Book of Genesis Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 12th April, 2026 Passage: Genesis 1 Sermon Summary: In the beginning, there was nothing but God. He created the heavens and the earth ex nihilo , out of nothing—brought order to the earth that was without form and void. Scripture tells us that God created the world in six days: time (the evening and morning) on the first; the land and sk...

Series: / Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 5th April 2026 Passage: Colossians 1:13-14 Sermon Summary: “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ…For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one m...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 29th March 2026 Passage: Acts 27-28 Sermon Summary: The finale of Acts ends in a whirlwind: after being caught in a storm, Paul and those with him are lost at sea and without food. (27:14-26) When they finally land, shipwrecked, on the island of Malta, Paul is then bitten by a viper as he helps to start a fire. (28:2-4) But beca...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 22nd March 2026 Passage: Acts 23-26 Sermon Summary: Though he continues to be in chains—though more than forty Jews bound themselves by an oath to neither eat nor drink until they had killed him (Acts 23:12-13)—Paul continues to speak about faith in Christ Jesus wherever he goes, whether by word or deed. Ananias, Felix, and King...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 15th March 2026 Passage: Acts 21:17-22:22 Sermon Summary: What a 180-degree change from how Paul was treated in our last two passages of Acts! While the brothers received him gladly as he arrived (Acts 21:17), the Jews at Jerusalem had gotten the wrong message. They believed that Paul was teaching them to forsake the way of Mo...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 8th March 2026 Passage: Acts 21:1-16 Sermon Summary: What does it cost you to follow Christ? Constrained as he was by the Holy Spirit to visit Jerusalem (Acts 20:22), Paul knew very well that imprisonment and afflictions awaited him there. He was told by the Spirit that suffering awaited him in every city he visited. In Acts 21,...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 1st March 2026 Passage: Acts 20:1-38 Sermon Summary: At this point in Acts, Paul is nearing the end of his life. The gospel has made its way through Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria—even swaths of Asia, just as Christ promised. (Acts 1:8)—and yet Paul shows no sign of slowing down. If anything, this week’s passage of Acts 20:17-38...

Series: The Birth of the Church (Acts) Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 22nd February 2026 Passage: Acts 19:1-41 Sermon Summary: We’ve been tracing as a church the movement of the gospel and the Holy Spirit through the book of Acts. We witnessed their movement through Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria—in some ways, they even reached the (then-known) ends of the earth! If your memory of what we’ve gone t...

Series: Chinese New Year Service Preacher: Ps. Gabriel Wong Date: 15th February 2026 Passage: Acts 17:22-34 Sermon Summary: What would the apostle Paul say to us today if he were at the dinner table with us? What would he make of our customs, such as dressing in red, passing out lai see, or our Chinese New Year’s blessings? How might he respond to the anxiety felt at big family gatherings when som...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 8th February 2026 Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-12 Sermon Summary: We commonly assume that God’s priesthood is reserved for those called to full-time or vocational ministry. Like the Levites before them, God must have set these people aside for a special calling. This couldn’t be further from the truth: the call for all of God’s people to be part of His hol...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 1st February 2026 Passage: Ephesians 2:18-19 Sermon Summary: Before the apostle Paul talks about the household of God in verse 19, he tells the early church that because of Christ’s sacrifice, they now have access through His Spirit to God the Father. (Eph. 2:18) That is why the church is now the household of God, no longer strangers and aliens but...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. James Tang Date: 25th January 2026 Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-12 Sermon Summary: “And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” (Rev. 21:22) We were always meant to have full communion with God. From the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden, there was no temple: the Lord God walked with man, and the fullness of His presence...

Series: The Church Preacher: Ps. Gabriel with Jae Won Kim Date: 18th January 2026 Passage: Colossians 3:16-17