“Knowing God is our Father — who provides for what we need and cares for what we desire — frees us to seek first His Kingdom and make decisions that move our hearts toward Him.” - @timothyshaun

Timothy shared an apt word on Walking with The Father. Speaking primarily from Matthew 6:25-34, he reminded us that God is not a faraway God, but a loving father who walks with us every step of the way, who knows and cares for our needs and our desires.

With that knowledge, instead of taking things into our own hands outside of God’s timing, let us press on towards God, placing our faith in Him and His plans as He invites us to walk with Him.

“Embracing weakness and suffering is not the end of the story, but the display of God’s power and glory through a body of weak and broken people, is.” - @jasonchua.sg

Jason shared about Finding Confidence In Our Weakness, and how the process of embracing our weaknesses, while counter-cultural, enables us to share in the experience of Jesus, who depended fully on God in His humanity.

May we remain steadfast in reaching for God in our weakness, and take heart in His resurrection power that will make all things right.

"We mistake God’s patience with His absence. But we can choose patient hope in His trustworthiness and timing, knowing He is working in our waiting.” - @janicechinchern

Ps. Janice shared this morning on being In The Waiting Space. As a people of God, we can embrace seasons of waiting on the Lord with eager expectation and a patient hope. We can learn to wait well, staying fervent in presence and faithful in service, because we can trust that even as we wait, God is working.

May we bring our waiting before the Lord, and be encouraged that we are invited to do so with hope and faith that we are not alone in the process.

Reflecting on Ps. Andre’s sermon, let us to show hospitality and open up our homes and hearts to the people around us, to make time to eat together and showing God’s love to them.

“To follow Jesus is to embrace the way of suffering love, non-retaliation and forgiveness.” - @andrejosiah

Pst Andre shared from Matthew 18:21, in his sermon, Forgiving As We Have Been Forgiven. Expounding on the parable where Jesus shows Peter that our forgiveness and our willingness to forgive should be limitless, Pst Andre reminded us that the call to forgiveness is core to being a follower of Jesus in our world today.

Just as we’ve been forgiven a debt that we couldn’t repay, Jesus calls us to now forgive and extend that same mercy and grace to others, by releasing them of the debt “owed” to us, and no longer holding their trespasses against them.

May we ponder: What does Jesus’ call to forgiveness mean for us in our individual lives? We pray that you were blessed by the word and that you’ll discover a renewed revelation of God’s love and forgiveness upon our lives as you seek Him.

“He has you inscribed on His palms. The master engraving the servant’s name on Himself, a prominent and lasting display of affection that cannot be erased.” - @janicechinchern

Speaking from Isaiah 49, Ps. Janice shared this morning on how He Will Not Forsake You. At times, we like Zion may feel like God has abandoned us, especially when we experience a dissonance between our circumstances and what God has promised. But God tells us that while a mother may forget her child, He will never forget nor forsake us. He has us engraved in His palms, and He has us continually before Him.

May we be reminded that His love is unchanging and rises above all circumstances, and we can lean in with courage and trust in His covenantal love.

“Once we’ve beheld Jesus, and find Jesus incredibly beautiful, we will reorient our lives and naturally cut other things out in pursuit of Him” - Ps. Samuel Whitefield

We had the honour of having Ps. Samuel bring us a powerful message on Discipleship Begins with Beholding. He reminded us on what it means to be a disciple and to behold Jesus - to behold doesn’t mean to just see.

To behold is to take a longer glance, to consider something, to reflect on it, to let it affect our emotions and thoughts. As we behold Jesus, may we rediscover just how beautiful and incredible He is, and in the process of discovering His unsurpassable worth, that we will be transformed into His likeness.

“When we realize that nothing changes God’s mind or love for us, not even our human efforts, it frees us.” - @janicechinchern

Pst Janice preached from the story of Ziba and Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel, drawing parallels of how to relate to God. In Slave or Son?, Pst Janice reminded us of how our identity and security are drawn from the Father’s love as His children. As we begin a new week, may we rediscover knowing God as our father, experience the fullness of knowing Him and the joy of His mission.

"God wants to deal with our hearts and uproot the things that prevent us from fully experiencing His goodness, and replace them with what’s better, so that there’s growth, flourishing, health, life.” - @janicechinchern

This Resurrection Sunday, Ps. Janice spoke on how Jesus is better than life. Speaking from John 20:1-18, we learn about how resurrection happens and Jesus works when it is still dark to redeem, transform and transcend the power of darkness.

Secondly, for resurrection to happen, dying that needs to occur first. May our hearts be open to receive His invitations to encounter upon encounter, as He works through the unfruitful, unwanted or harmful bits in us to transform dead things to become fertile and alive again.

“The facade of external righteousness hides a broken heart in need of God’s mercy. The church is to be the place we can lay aside these facades and find healing - a hospital which serves the most wounded among us.” - @timothyshaun

Timothy Seow shared on how Jesus is Better Than External Righteousness. Speaking from Luke 18, he shared that Jesus’ biggest issue with the Pharisees was that they were externally righteous - looking good outwardly, but full of hypocrisy within. Jesus rebukes the heart that carries pride, self-righteousness and judgment, and tells us that the one who humbles himself will be exalted.

May we remember that we need the mercy of God to overcome the Pharisee in our hearts. Let us resist external righteousness, humble ourselves, and walk in the mercies of God.