Sermon

Jason Ho on Mark 1:12-15 and 3:1-6 — Jesus’s wilderness of temptation interwoven with the synagogue where he heals the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath. How may we still blossom nakedly, authentically before the Lord in the wildernesses of our own lives?

Dr. Chen Wen-shan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Religion at Yu Shan Theological Seminary (Taiwan), visits BMCC to speak on Matthew 15:21-38 — Jesus and the Canaanite woman. Dr. Chen has been a leading scholar of feminist theology, disability theology, restorative justice, and the religious right in Taiwan. She was a founding signatory of Taiwan’s interfaith marriage-equality petition and wrote the preface to Rev. Ngeo Boon Lin’s books.

Lead pastor on Luke 17:21 — ‘the Kingdom of God is within you.’ The Kingdom does not arrive with observable spectacle; it is already breaking out among us, in the lives that bear love and justice. To live in the Kingdom is to live as if it is true now.

Lead pastor on Matthew 21:21. Faith that moves mountains is not intellectual assent — it is the trust of the heart. The thinking that questions and doubts is good for us, but it is the trusting heart that gives faith its life.

Rev. Ngeo Boon Lin on Luke 17:11-19 — the ten lepers, one of whom returned to give thanks. To begin the year with gratitude is to begin life with gratitude. Of those who receive grace, only one in ten returns to thank — but that one is the one who lives transformed.

Jason Ho on Mark 1:1 — ‘the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.’ To imitate Jesus is to begin as he did — in the wilderness, baptised by John, called Beloved by the Father, sent into the world.

New Year’s Eve 2017. Lead pastor on 1 Peter 2:2-7 — Christ the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious to God. Built up on him, we too are living stones, a spiritual house, offering spiritual sacrifices.

Lead pastor speaks BMCC’s Christmas message on RTHK’s ‘We Are Family’ (自己人) programme, broadcast in the early hours of 25 December 2018.

Christmas Eve 2017. Lead pastor on Luke 1:79 — ‘to guide our feet into the way of peace.’ Christmas is a homecoming: the Light has come into our darkness, calling us back to belonging in God. Wherever we have wandered, the road home is open.

A combined service from December 2017: Lead pastor’s sermon on Luke 1:79 (‘Christmas Coming Home’), followed by the ordination of Jason Ho as BMCC’s missionary, and Jason Ho’s own sharing on his journey into BMCC ministry.