City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

Preaching out of Hebrews 6:10-12, Pastor Audrey Ng assures believers that God will not forget our work and our love for him, and reminds us to continue in this love to the end. There are two keys to fulfilling this call: one is faith, which is to lean on the entire personality of God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence (Heb 6:12 AMP), and the second is to exercise patient endurance with good temper, to be steadfast as we wait to obtain the promises of God. As 2023 draws near to an end, Pastor Audrey encourages us with Ecclesiastes 7:8, "The end of a matter is better than its beginning." If we keep moving forward and refuse to give up, we will finish well by the power of the Holy Spirit.

As part of the Global Pentecostal Summit, Professor Doug Petersen brings a message about Jesus’ deep love for little children, which are chronicled in five stories in the Gospel of Mark. Sharing how he was called to help children and how God used that obedience to turn Latin America Child Care (now ChildHope) into an international programme that has helped over 2 million children in poverty. The fact that children are precious to God is recorded over and over again in Mark, emphasising how children belong to the Kingdom, and when believers touch the life of a child, they touch the heart of the Heavenly Father. Listen to this sermon and be encouraged to make a difference to a little one. 

As part of the Global Pentecostal Summit, Professor Byron Klaus preaches a powerful message out of John 5, where Jesus meets a sick man sitting by the pool of Bethesda. The pool, where healing occurred when the sick entered it at a certain time, was a place of anticipation, but also of dashed hopes. It was a place of last resort. The sick man had been there for 38 years, trapped in his own prison of pain, set free by Jesus who simply told him to get up, take up his bed and walk. Likewise, Jesus comes into a believer’s nightmare and breaks every bondage with His word. Just as He did more than 2000 years ago, Jesus continues to do this transforming work—that is the guarantee of Pentecost. Let this sermon bring hope into whatever situation you may be in today.

Guest preacher Bishop Mosa Sono from Grace Bible Church in South Africa brings a power-packed reminder that time is finite and Christians need God to help us life a life worth something. Preaching out of Psalm 90, Bishop Sono highlights that if we let it, time can be a tyrant, which causes us to be chasing time instead of being in the present. So how can one maximise his time? By not wasting it on the unimportant things, like carrying yesterday’s problems and worries into the new day God has given; by increasing the value of every day; by putting God first and by leaning hard on the grace of God. Listen to this message and learn how not to waste another day.

Guest preacher Dr John Avanzini returns after eight years with this powerful message for City Harvest Church. Faith and fear come from the same place—David ran away from Goliath with the army, but when he heard about King Saul’s reward, he returned and killed the giant. When God wants believers to do something, He gives us motivation. Jesus was motivated by the reward of saving the world. To take hold of what God has in store for us, we must lift up our eyes to see what He sees. Just as Jesus always looked to see what the Father was doing, believers must learn to see it and get hold of it in the spirit. Then, with our mouths, we speak our miracle and breakthrough into existence. Listen to this message and be encouraged to be a person who speaks and sees the things of God.

Guest preacher Phil Pringle delivers a powerful reminder in this sermon that unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain (John 12:24). Being a follower of Jesus involves death, pain and suffering. It is only when a Christian completely surrenders what he has to the Lord, when his vision and dream dies, that God brings life to that dead situation. This happened when the little boy gave his small lunch to Jesus and wound up feeding the multitudes. This also happened when Abraham brought Isaac up the mountain to sacrifice him in obedience to God. Be encouraged by this message to not withhold what you have from God. God will take you if you give yourself to Him.

Endurance and resilience were the hallmarks of Jesus’ ministry. As Christians, our lives must likewise be defined, not by our achievements, but by how we overcome failure, keeping an attitude of never giving up and always desiring to bounce back from setbacks. Preaching out of Hebrews 12:1, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain teaches that while supernatural miracles are great, if we only look out for the spectacular, we may miss out on the “ordinary” revelation from an extraordinary God. Two truths: one, we are called to run a race of faith that is given by the Lord, not our own “fantasy run”. The race of faith builds endurance, not a way of escape. Two, we are to lay aside every weight that hinders our run: addictions, toxic behaviours, anything that is not pleasing to the Lord. As we run our own race set for us by God, we can finish it well by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Walking in the power and divine life of God requires brokenness in the life of a believer. When something is broken, it gets tossed out because it has lost its usefulness. But for the believer, “invited brokenness” is where we will find God’s transforming power. This is the kind of brokenness that causes us to be aware of how sinful and flawed we are, and how the love of God can heal us and lead us to a life of complete dependence on Him. God wants us to come before Him without false pretence, but in complete honesty and brokenness. Just like how Mary broke the jar to release the fragrance of the anointing oil, true brokenness releases the presence of God within us to touch us and position us to reign with Christ.

God desires to launch us into an exciting and powerful adventure with Him, but it requires us to choose to live by four things: 1) Faith; 2) the Word; 3) the Holy Spirit; 4) godly counsel. Coupled with the anecdotes that Pastor Kong Hee shares in this sermon, you will be encouraged to pursue a life marked by a God-given adventure of faith that knows no limits!

At some point in life, every person will encounter a problem that seems insurmountable but with God, all things are possible. In this faith-building message, Pastor Aries Zulkarnian brings us to Mary and the other women who wanted to anoint Jesus’ body and were worried how to enter the tomb, but when they arrived, they found the stone had already been rolled away. When we face problems, let us be reminded to look up (Col 3:1). Two things that give us the right spiritual mindset towards failure: 1) Believe in the resurrection power of Jesus in you. We must decide to activate our faith to believe that God can transform a dead end into a glorious future, by the same power in us that raised Jesus from the dead. 2) Believe in the love of God for you. God will never give up on you, so you must not give up on yourself. Let this message encourage you that God Himself will restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.