English Worship Jogja Podcast

A healthy spiritual life begins with learning to resist temptation and stand firm in God's truth. James 4:7 reminds us to submit ourselves to God and resist the devil, while Jesus' example in Matthew 4:1–11 shows us how to respond to temptation with the Word of God. We face pressures from friendships, relationships, insecurities, and the desire to fit in. These challenges can tempt us to...

God’s mercy is beyond measure. In the final chapter of Jonah, the story ends with a question. Do we really know the extent of God’s mercy? Spoiler: It’s beyond our own understanding. While Jonah is angry with the outcome of a powerful repentance moment. God checks Jonah’s heart as to what is really happening here. A perspective change needs to happen, to focus more on what God is doing rather than...

Have you ever been in a season where you just wanted God to get you OUT? Jonah reminds us that sometimes the place we want to escape from is actually the place where God is trying to get our attention, grow us, and bring us closer to Him. The fish wasn’t the end of Jonah’s story—it was where God met him, and where Jonah learned to pray, surrender, and trust again. 🐋 And honestly, we all need peop...

Jonah 2 reminds us that sometimes the places we desperately want God to get us out of can become the very places He uses to draw us closer to Him. Jonah’s time inside the fish looked like punishment, but it was actually God’s provision and protection. In the middle of his darkest and most uncomfortable moment, Jonah stopped running and started praying. His prayer marked a turning point from self-r...

Jonah 1  reminds us that following God is not always about whether we know what He is asking us to do, but whether we are willing to obey when His plans don’t match our own. Jonah ran from God because he knew God was merciful, and he did not want that mercy extended to the people of Nineveh. Like Jonah, we can create our own picture of what our lives should look like—our careers, relationships, dr...

A healthy church is first and foremost centered in Jesus Christ. In Colossians 1:15-20, Paul goes all out on who Jesus is, His supremacy over creation, His lordship over the church, and His work in redeeming His creation. Everything is redeemed through Jesus and His church. From this passage that we are going to be looking at, we start to see that everything is created through and for Jesus. Which...

A healthy church is a praying church. In Colossians 4:2–6, Paul encourages the church to devote themselves to prayer, remain watchful and thankful, and pray for one another. Prayer is not only an individual spiritual discipline—it is something a healthy community practices together. When we pray for one another, we reflect Christ, share one another’s burdens, build unity, and strengthen our faith...

In Colossians 3, Paul shows us that a healthy church is not a perfect community, but a gracious community. Because God has first chosen, loved, forgiven, and shown grace to us, we are called to extend that same grace to others. Paul encourages believers to “clothe” themselves with mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, forgiveness, and above all, love. Grace does not mean ignoring sin or...

This week, we continue to look at this question… What does a healthy church community look like? When people are transformed by the gospel, it also means being rooted and having their lives be centered in Jesus. With so many cultures and mindsets surrounding the church of Colossae, it can be very tempting to just add it on top of following Jesus.  When we follow Jesus, we are transformed. Everythi...

The book of Colossians reminds us that God created us for community. While our world is becoming increasingly connected through technology, many people are experiencing deeper loneliness and isolation than ever before. Paul wrote to the church in Colossae—a church he had never visited—to encourage them because they had become known for their faith in Christ and their love for others. Their healthy...

The spiritual discipline of service is the practice of intentionally putting the needs of others before our own. As the final message in the Back to the Basics series, this sermon reminds us that while practices like prayer, Scripture, worship, Sabbath, and fasting deepen our relationship with God, one of the clearest ways we demonstrate our love for Him is through the way we love and care for oth...

This week in our Back to the Basics series, we are taking a deep dive at the spiritual discipline of worship by looking at the most important commandment according to Jesus. It is to worship God alone, worship Him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength; Jesus continues that the second is equally important when we love your neighbor as yourself. Bottomline, we are called to live a life of...

In this week's Back to the Basics series, we explored the spiritual discipline of prayer by looking at the example of the early church in Acts 2 and the teachings of Jesus in Matthew 6. Prayer is not about impressing God or others with long, eloquent words, but about cultivating a genuine relationship with our Heavenly Father. Throughout Scripture, we see people approaching God with honesty,...

In this week's Back to the Basics series, we explored the biblical practice of fasting and what it means for followers of Jesus today. While many people associate fasting with religious obligation, self-discipline, or earning God's favor, Scripture presents it as something entirely different. Fasting is not a way to manipulate God or prove our spirituality—it is a grace-filled invitation...

In today’s message, we will be looking at the spiritual discipline of simplicity. When you look at the early church in Acts 2:42-47, verse 44-45 talks about them meeting together in one place sharing everything together, selling their possessions and helping anyone who is in need.  Simplicity is the reorientation or changing our perspective from a life that is so noisy and cluttered, to a life cen...

In this message from the “Back to the Basics” series, we explore why Scripture is an essential part of following Jesus and how God’s Word shapes us into His disciples. Through the story of a younger brother who wanted to become like his older brother, we discover that we become like those we spend time with. The early church in Acts devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, which was deeply ro...

In this message from the "Back to the Basics" series, we explore the biblical practice of generosity and how it flows from the character of God Himself. Through personal stories of God's provision and Jesus' teaching in Matthew 6, we discover that God is a generous Father who provides more than enough for His children. Because God is generous, we do not need to hoard our resour...

Let’s head Back to the Basics by exploring the practice of Sabbath and asking what the life of a follower of Jesus should look like. For many of us, we struggle to rest and instead we believe everything depends on our effort and control. Looking at Scripture, we see that Sabbath began at creation when God rested on the seventh day, and later became a command for His people. The biblical idea of Sa...

What does partnership with the Holy Spirit look like? The Spirit helps the disciples fulfill the command of Jesus Acts 2:37-41 NLT 37 Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?” 38 Peter replied, “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins....

Read :  Acts 1:4-11 Jesus promised that believers would receive Dunamis —the same Greek word from which we get “dynamite”—to empower them as witnesses. Just as dynamite transforms a landscape by clearing away obstructions, the Holy Spirit reshapes our environment—changing hard hearts, broken families, and divided communities. Being a witness is simply reporting what you have seen and experienced....

The promise, the presence, the power, and the partnership of the Holy Spirit If you love Jesus, you are going to LOVE the Holy Spirit!  Genesis 1:1-2 NIV “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”  The Holy Spirit is the power and presence of God with...

Ascension day is a celebration that is so significant in our faith, Jesus ascends up to heaven to sit on the throne. It was Jesus’ coronation and our commission to be His witnesses wherever we go. That we will share the hope found in Him until he returns.  What does it mean to live with that hope in our lives?  We need to have an active hope. Like the disciples in the story that we are going to be...

Read:   Joel 2:28-29 22:33-34, John 14:15-17; 26, Acts 1:8; 2:16-18 One main misconception that a lot of people do not notice is that the Holy Spirit has been with us from the beginning of time. The Holy Spirit did not just show up in the New Testament after Jesus ascended into heaven. In fact, not only the Holy Spirit was in the Old Testament, but the promises of the Holy Spirit is for everyone....

A Shepherd After God's Own Heart 1 Peter 5:2-5 NLT Care for the flock that God has entrusted to you. Watch over it willingly, not grudgingly—not for what you will get out of it, but because you are eager to serve God. Don’t lord it over the people assigned to your care, but lead them by your own good example. And when the Great Shepherd appears, you will receive a crown of never-ending glory...

Read:   Luke 22:33-34, Luke 22:54-62, and John 21:3-17 The sermon explores “the morning after” failure through Peter’s story—we first see his bold confidence that he will never deny Christ, but Jesus knows the reality. Despite all of his promises, Peter denies Jesus three times and is left in deep shame, weeping bitterly when he realizes what he has done. A few days later, he returns to his old li...