Sermon

“Your testimony is allowed to be unfinished.” During an online service amid a typhoon warning, Pastor Hong explored BMCC’s three-part gospel: creation, liberation, and building up. The most powerful witness is the story still in process — still struggling, still finding its way toward light.

Where do weeds take root? Pastor Timothy brings the parable of wheat and weeds into conversation with Chan wisdom and Thomas Merton’s contemplative insight — reminding us that both the world and our own hearts are fields where wheat and weeds grow together. We are sinners saved by grace, learning to live humbly alongside one another.

We often judge people’s soil — but Dr. Dino Wong asks what made it that way. Through the Parable of the Sower, he invites the church to be humble assistants, sowing with unconditional love and patience, trusting God to bring growth in God’s own time.

What is a home? Through Nehemiah’s return to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls, Frankie leads us to reflect on home, belonging and our shared part in it — no wall is built by one person. On BMCC’s 34th anniversary, may you too find here the fire that will not go out.

True hospitality flows from a secure identity. Drawing on Matthew 10:40–42, Pastor Timothy shows that a cup of cold water — however small — sustains the disciple’s journey. Only those who have first found themselves in God’s gaze can become water stations for others.

What is your first response when God calls you? Dr. Sonia Wong explores Jeremiah’s story: a young, inarticulate prophet from the margins, called to speak truth in turbulent times — and how God sees our potential, not our past.

Ten lepers were healed, but only one returned to give thanks — and he was a despised Samaritan. Again and again, Jesus de-stigmatises the people others reject. Our dignity rests not on what we do, but on this: we are made in the image of God.

“To be or not to be.” Jason Ho hands Hamlet’s question back to BMCC: are you here? Is the Lord here? From Abraham’s wilderness, through John 14’s “walking with,” to a sharp critique of phone-age distraction, he reminds us that where our hearts are matters as much as where our bodies stand.

Solomon had everything, yet felt empty. Pastor Hong draws on clown theatre training to explore what freedom really means: not accumulating more, but setting down the mask, embracing failure, and being fully present. Our souls are most alive — and most beautiful — in the moment we stop performing.

In “Welcoming Strangers Is Meeting Christ at the Door,” Ken Ken shows that biblical hospitality is love for someone you don’t know. From Abraham welcoming three strangers to Jesus’ “as you did it to the least, you did it to me” — BMCC’s calling isn’t to wait at the door, but to go out and find those the church once hurt.