In Holy Inconsistency, Koob walks us through Mark 9:20–27, centering on a desperate father whose prayer captures the tension many believers quietly carry: “I believe; help my unbelief.” Rather than presenting doubt as something to hide or conquer quickly, this sermon names the difference between cynical doubt that closes us off from God and honest doubt that dares to bring our fractured faith directly to Jesus. The father’s wavering trust is not polished or consistent—but it is real, and Jesus meets it head-on.

Koob invites us to see that the power of this passage does not rest in the father’s certainty, but in Jesus’ generous grace. Even amid chaos, failure, and incomplete faith, Jesus takes the boy by the hand and raises him up. Holy Inconsistency challenges the assumption that strong faith means having no questions, and instead reframes faithfulness as bringing our whole selves—belief and unbelief alike—into the presence of Christ, trusting that He is able to meet us there and lift us up.

In this final sermon of the Advent season, preached by Jingyang during our Christmas service, we turn to Paul’s profound vision of love in 1 Corinthians 13. As Advent culminates in the celebration of Christ’s coming, this passage confronts us with a love that goes far beyond emotion, gifting, or spiritual activity. Paul exposes how even the most compelling expressions of faith—eloquence, sacrifice, generosity, or spiritual power—are empty when detached from love. Advent love, as Scripture presents it, is patient, humble, and self-giving, consistently oriented toward the good of others rather than the elevation of self.

This message invites us to see love not as an abstract ideal but as a lived, embodied reality shaped by Christ Himself. Rooted in the incarnation, this kind of love actively seeks the benefit of others, endures through difficulty, and reflects the very character of God revealed at Christmas. As we close the Advent season, the call is to pursue love as the defining mark of Christian life and community, carrying the light of Christ’s self-giving love into the world beyond the season of Advent.

In this sermon preached by Piero Gorriti, we place two unsettling kingdom parables side by side: the laborers in the vineyard and the parable of the talents. Though they seem to operate by opposite logics—one dismantling our sense of fairness, the other confronting our fear of risk—both expose the same underlying issue: the subtle enthronement of self. Set within the final days of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem, these stories reveal an upside-down kingdom where entitlement, comparison, control, and self-preservation are unmasked as false sources of identity and security. The reactions of the early workers and the third servant show how what appears culturally reasonable can still be rebellion when it is rooted in certainty rather than faith.

This sermon calls us to examine how resentment, envy, fear, disengagement, and risk-avoidance reveal who or what we truly worship. In contrast, Christ is revealed as the generous Master—enthroned through radical obedience to the Father and sacrificial love—who invites His servants into a life of faithful surrender and joyful trust. The Gospel dethrones both self-actualized entitlement and self-preserved false humility, calling us to invest our time, talents, and treasure for the expansion of God’s kingdom. As we reflect on where we have invested—or buried—what God has entrusted to us, we are invited to hear the Master’s gracious call: “Well done, good and faithful servant… enter into the joy of your master.”

Advent Series III | True Joy invites us to rediscover joy as Scripture defines it, not as fleeting happiness or emotional escape, but as a deep, embodied response rooted in the presence and work of God. Preaching from Psalm 146 alongside Isaiah 35 and Matthew 11, Pastor Piero shows how biblical joy emerges even in deserts, prisons, and uncertainty, because it is anchored not in circumstances or human “princes,” but in the Lord who creates, sustains, executes justice, and saves. This message traces how the joy long anticipated by the prophets and sung by the psalmists is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who brings sight to the blind, freedom to the captive, and good news to the poor. As we journey through Advent, we are invited to shift our joy from temporary outcomes to a living relationship with Immanuel, learning that true joy is relational, sustained by abiding in Christ, and made complete by trusting in what He has done rather than what we can achieve.

Advent Series II | Peace invites us to rethink what peace really is through Jesus’ words in John 14:25–28. In this sermon, Koob confronts two common misunderstandings: that peace is simply the absence of conflict, and that peace is something we can create through control or self-management. Drawing from Jesus’ promise of the Helper and His gift of peace, Koob shows that true peace is not achieved but received, not produced by escaping chaos or micromanaging life, but given by Christ Himself. Jesus offers a peace the world cannot give, a peace that quiets fear and anchors troubled hearts in His presence. As we journey through Advent, we are invited to lay down self-made versions of peace and embrace the peace that comes only through surrender to Jesus, who makes us alive in Him. 

Hope Incarnate opens our Advent journey with Psalm 130, where Pastor Piero leads us into the honest cry, “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,” and traces how true hope is birthed in the tension between chaos and God’s promise. Rather than a vague optimism based on circumstances, biblical hope is a bold waiting that looks back to God’s past faithfulness and forward to His decisive act in Christ. In this sermon, we explore how the psalmist’s longing for forgiveness, justice, and redemption finds its fulfillment in Jesus, Hope in the flesh, and how we now live in the rope-like tension of the “now and not yet” as we await His return. This message invites us to shift our hope from outcomes to a Person, from the promise to the Promiser, and to embody the hope of Jesus in a world still marked by suffering, injustice, and waiting.

Stormproofed brings the series to its climactic end as Jesus contrasts two builders whose foundations are revealed only when the storm arrives. Preaching from Matthew 7:24–29, Pastor Piero shows that Jesus is not offering a therapeutic metaphor for personal hardship, but an eschatological warning that exposes the difference between admiration and allegiance. Both builders hear Jesus’ words, but only one embodies them through a life rooted in the hidden foundation of knowing Christ rather than performing for God or others. Drawing from Ezekiel 13 and Ephesians 2, the sermon challenges us to examine what our lives are actually built on, to reject the temptation to whitewash our spirituality with outward works, and to remember that only the Spirit can build us on the true Rock, Christ Himself.

In this message, Jingyang preaches on Matthew 7:13–23, where Jesus warns that the path to life is narrow and marked by genuine obedience rather than outward religious activity. Through the contrast of gates, trees, and final outcomes, Jesus exposes how easy it is to confuse spiritual performance with true discipleship. This passage invites honest self-examination, urging us to consider whether our lives bear the kind of fruit that comes from actually knowing Jesus and walking in His will.

In this message, pastor Piero invites us to rediscover prayer, discipleship, and neighbor-love through the eyes of a child. Jesus’ call to ask, seek, and knock is not a formula for getting what we want; it is an invitation into relational trust with a Father who gives good gifts for His kingdom purposes.

From this posture of intimacy, Jesus leads us to the Golden Rule: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.” Our prayer life and our relationships are meant to flow together, receiving mercy from the Father and extending it to others.

This passage reveals a profound reversal: the world sees prayer as transaction, but the Kingdom sees it as transformation. True discipleship perseveres in trust, aligns with the Father’s will, and overflows in sacrificial love. Every good gift we give begins with The Gift, Jesus Himself.

In this message, pastor Piero continues our Kingdom Reversals series as Jesus turns from our relationship with possessions to our relationship with people. Through the vivid imagery of logs, specks, and pearls, Jesus exposes how self-righteousness blinds us from seeing others with mercy.

We are invited to examine the measure we use—are we living by performance or by grace? To remove the log of self-importance that distorts our vision. And to discern how to steward the pearls of God’s kingdom with wisdom and love.

This passage calls us to trade our illusion of control for the mercy of Christ, to see others not as projects to fix but as brothers and sisters to restore. The Kingdom’s reversal is clear: what the world calls sacrifice and strength, Jesus calls blindness; what the world overlooks as weakness and mercy, He calls vision and treasure.

What do I value more—the log or the pearls? How is the Holy Spirit inviting me to steward the treasures of God’s kingdom with grace and discernment today?