Sermon series: 1 John: Knowing You Are Alive

This passage shows us that even as genuine believers, assurance that we are truly children of God is something we need to fight for. However, the foundation of that assurance is not what we do, but what Christ has done. We receive this by faith, and the result is a life lived in faith, obedience and love.

Preacher: Aaron Akins

Date: 31 August 2025

Sermon series: 1 John: Knowing You Are Alive

The apostle John focuses on the social test in these verses, i.e., whether one has love for a fellow believer. Love for one another is not a duty of burden, but a gift of assurance that we truly know God. Since we have been brought from death to life, we are no longer called to treat one another, as if we're still living in the darkness. Rather, we love one another by God's grace and in light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who laid down His life for us as a demonstration of the love that we are called to.

Preacher: Joel Sim

Date: 24 August 2025

Sermon series: 1 John: Knowing You Are Alive

In this passage, we discover who the true children of God are, what they will be, and how they live now. In His love, God makes us His children through Christ. And when we see Christ when He comes again, we will be like Him. And so today, in light of that hope, we live lives joyfully dependent and lovingly obedient to God, expressed in our practical actions.

Preacher: Tan Huai Tze

Date: 17 August 2025

Sermon series: 1 John: Knowing You Are Alive

In his love for his readers, John issues a stern warning about the danger of the antichrists. They are those who leave the fellowship of the church, and who deny that Jesus is sent by God, and is indeed the Son of God. They are deceptive. In order to resist them, we need to let God’s truth abide in us, and we need to continue to abide in God. And what will move us to do so is to know that Christ is better than anything antichrists can falsely offer.

Preacher: Tan Huai Tze

Date: 10 August 2025

Sermon series: 1 John: Knowing You Are Alive

John shows how someone “does the will of God” and “abides forever”. This involves knowing how the Father has loved us, and loving Him in return. And we love Him by turning our hearts away from things that are not from Him and that will pass away.

Preacher: Tan Huai Tze

Date: 3 August 2025

Sermon series: 1 John: Knowing You Are Alive

In a world of spiritual confusion, the apostle John assures his readers that they can truly know God. It is made possible through the atoning work of Christ, who is our Advocate before our Father. As we grow in obedience, love for fellow believers, and Christlikeness, we see the evidence of God's work in us, giving us confidence that we do know Him.

Preacher: Joseph Tern

Date: 27 July 2025

Sermon series: 1 John: Walking in the Light

As believers, we know that we have communion with the triune God through the reality of walking in the light. It begins with knowing God as holy, which helps us to grasp why we need the Gospel in the first place. In light of this, we are called to fellowship with one another as the fruit of our fellowship with God, as well as to live with humble integrity through the confession of our sins. This is made possible through faith in Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world (John 8:12).

Preacher: Joel Sim

Date: 20 July 2025

Sermon series: 1 John: Knowing You Are Alive

John writes to assure believers that their faith is real—not just for certainty’s sake, but so their joy may be complete (1 John 1:4). He calls them to trust the reliable witness, receive the eternal Word, and enter the genuine welcome of God’s people and of the Triune God Himself.

Preacher: Tan Huai Tze

Date: 13 July 2025

Sermon series: Topical

As followers of Jesus, we are called to enter into one another’s sorrows and carry each other’s burdens with Christ-like gentleness and care. This is never easy. But we can do this because Christ has carried our ultimate burden—our guilt, shame, and sin—and now empowers us by His Spirit.

Preacher: Gideon Teo

Date: 6 July 2025

Sermon series: Nehemiah: Rebuilding and Being Rebuilt

As the book of Nehemiah draws to a close, we encounter a surprising and sobering conclusion to Israel’s great revival. Despite a season of spiritual renewal, the people return to their old ways, leaving Nehemiah visibly frustrated and heartbroken. This ending compels us to grapple with the painful truth of how fragile and incomplete human reform can be. Yet even in this failure, there is great hope to be found in Christ alone, the true source of lasting renewal.

Preacher: Chua Si Yang

Date: 29 June 2025