With some beautiful stories and examples, Dan Eze exhorted us to maintain a “balanced diet” of the spiritual and the physical. Jesus can bring physical sustenance and economic wellbeing, but more importantly He gives spiritual sustenance and wellbeing of the soul.
Hsiang-Ling walked us through the very familiar story of the feeding of 5000 people by Jesus in a remote place, examining the key characters involved. Who can you best identify with?
Using the imagery of a sponge, Hsiang-Ling spent her sermon explaining to us how the Holy Spirit wants to commission us to be God’s salt and light in the earth. God’s willingness to give us this commission is evident from the Bible, but we must willingly receive it. “If we want to be ‘oozing Christians’,…
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.” [John 15:9a] Jesus loves us as much as the Father loves Him. The power and depth of this statement are profound. In a wonderful sermon, Divya explained how this knowledge should motivate us to both abide in His love and remain obedient to His…
In John 10, Jesus claims to be “the gate for the sheep” and “the good shepherd”. Through Him, we are included in God’s flock and have a personal relationship with our Creator. He laid down His life for us, His sheep, and we are to follow His example by laying down our lives in the…
In our Easter celebration, Jaap Haasnoot explored the difference that Easter makes to our world. Focusing on Mary Magdalene weeping at the tomb, we celebrate with her as she realizes that Jezus has been resurrected. We have hope because there has been Easter. We live in a world that has seen Easter, and that changes…
Focusing our attention on the parable of the grain of wheat that dies in order to produce many seeds (found in John 12), Peter explored what this means for us. The self-giving love demonstrated by Jesus is our model and to trust Jesus as Lord, serve Him as our King, and allow Him to be…
On this fourth Sunday of Lent, Jan Waterschoot explored the meeting of Jesus and the Pharisee Nicodemus. Jesus speaks this crucial message: For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life. (John 3:16) This message of love…
In this special service, in which one of our adult congregation members was baptized, Peter reminded us that “God had always wanted a people of His own; a holy nation, a kingdom of priests. Not a people far off, quaking in fear at the bottom of a mountain, receiving the law on tablets of stone.”…
During this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan preached on how love is the essential element in our relationship with God and each other. To follow Jesus means to live a life of unconditional love for all – friends and enemies. The fractured worldwide church needs prayer and love for each other as Christ…