Sermon

Lead pastor on Matthew 10:16. Jesus sends his disciples ‘as sheep among wolves’ — to be ‘wise as serpents and innocent as doves.’ In an age of hostility, the Christian can neither be naive nor become cruel; only with wisdom and innocence together can witness be lived out.

Rev. Joseph Chang on Genesis 28:10-22 (Jacob’s ladder). The fugitive Jacob dreams of a ladder — God’s grace meets the unworthy. Heaven is not only an afterlife — when God’s presence enters our journey, our dreams, our trouble, that moment is heaven opened.

Jason Ho on Mark 5:34 — ‘Daughter, your faith has saved you.’ Faith is not a transaction with God; it is the courage to bring our lives truthfully before the Lord. Even in fear and beneath labels of impurity, reaching out to touch the hem of his garment is itself an act of faith.

Jason Ho on Mark 5:1-20 — the Gerasene demoniac. Caged by many demons, the man dwells among the tombs, self-harming — defined by society’s stigma and his own. Jesus breaks the stigma, clothes him, sends him home to witness. What ‘demons’ live in our own hearts? Jesus can release us.

Lead pastor on Matthew 28:19-20 — the Great Commission. To be a Christian is not only to receive the faith but to learn to become a disciple, and to train others. BMCC’s 101–301 discipleship courses are a direct response to Jesus’s command to ‘make disciples of all nations.’

Rev. Ngeo Boon Lin on Matthew 18:15-20. Where two or three gather in Jesus’s name, forgive, and reconcile, the Kingdom of Heaven is present. The witness of the church does not rest on its size but on its capacity to love and to be reconciled.

Easter 2018. Jason Ho on Mark 16:1-8. Mark’s resurrection narrative ends abruptly — the women see only the empty tomb, the disciples not yet understanding — and it is precisely this opening that invites every reader to take up the work of bearing the resurrection witness themselves.

BMCC’s 2018 Good Friday service — meditation, hymns, and Communion, remembering Christ who gave himself for the world. Good Friday is the night we must walk through before we reach the resurrection. May we be still before the cross, and receive again the Lord’s love and sacrifice.

Palm Sunday. Lead pastor on Mark 11:1-11. The crowd shouts ‘Hosanna’ expecting a militant messiah — Jesus instead chooses humility and the road of suffering. Peace and justice are never to be found in violence.

Jason Ho on Mark 4:35-41 — ‘Who is this?’ Jesus sleeps in the storm; rising at a word he stills the wind and sea. In the storms of our lives, this is who he is — both the companion who shares the boat and the Lord who silences the waves.