Sermon

Lead pastor on 2 Timothy 1:1-8. Paul writes from prison to Timothy: do not be ashamed of the gospel, do not abandon the race. The Spirit God gave us is not of fear but of power, love, and self-discipline. Keep running.

Rev. Ngeo Boon Lin on Matthew 4:1-11. The wilderness temptations of Jesus expose three primal hungers — for bread, for spectacle, for power. To face temptation rightly is to know yourself: where you crave, where you reach, and where Christ’s no becomes your own.

Jason Ho on Mark 9:5-6, the Transfiguration. Peter wants to build three booths — to fix the moment, to stay. But the new way is descent: down the mountain into ordinary life, where the glory carried within meets the suffering of the world.

Lead pastor on Hebrews 4:16 — ‘let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace.’ The believer’s boldness is not arrogance but the assurance of a high priest who has known our weakness. Come to receive mercy. Come to find grace in time of need.

Lead pastor on Acts 10:34-48 — Peter’s encounter with Cornelius. ‘God shows no partiality.’ The Christian’s true pride is not in birth, status, or tradition but in this: that God’s welcome extends to every people, every body, every life.

Jason Ho on Luke 19:12-27, the parable of the ten minas. The question is not what we have accumulated but what we have become. Talents entrusted are for use, not for safekeeping. What has your life made of you?

Eric Sin on Acts 1:6-14 — the Ascension. The disciples stand staring into the sky, but the angels turn them back to the work that lies ahead. To see from the unseen is to live in the trust that Christ, though hidden from sight, is still at work in and through us.

A 2017 inclusive worship service, ‘Rainbow Covenant — Building an LGBTQ+-Friendly Church.’ Pearl Wong and Rev. Po Kam-cheong share; the lead pastor preaches on Mark 5:21-24 and 35-43: What do you fear? And what do you believe? Faith and fear meet in the same moment — at the doorway of the dying child, the bleeding woman.

Rev. Ngeo Boon Lin on 2 Chronicles 20:15 — ‘do not be afraid, for the battle is not yours but God’s.’ In the face of overwhelming odds, the believer’s first calling is to trust. Fear shrinks the soul; faith opens it to the One who fights for us.

Dr. Rose Wu reflects on what it means to overcome the world. Christ’s victory does not look like worldly triumph — it looks like a cross. To overcome the world is to refuse its logic of fear, power, and exclusion, and to live by the strange logic of self-giving love.