City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

On Mother's Day weekend, Pastor Kong Hee fittingly preaches on the love of Jesus.Of all virtues, love is the most important—we are called to live a life filled with love (Eph 5:2). 1 Cor 13:4 says "Love is patient, love is kind". Pastor Kong teaches that without these two things—one passive, the other active—there is no love. Patience is the capacity to accept delays, problems and sufferings without getting anxious or angry. A Godly person is someone who is slow to anger. Kindness is compassion, sharing in another person's suffering and pain, looking out for their interests, honoring them. Listen to this message and be encouraged to be like Jesus by imitating Him in love.

Guest preacher Pastor Erwin McManus of Mosaic Church in Los Angeles delivers a sermon that encourages the Church to do three things. One, stay unique: do not sacrifice your God-given uniqueness to be accepted by others; life a life of intention, not obligation. Two, stay optimistic: never give up! Focus on what is good, and call each other to hope and joy. God is waiting for you, His creative agent, to create a better future. Three, stay present. Never take for granted but be grateful for the gifts you have in your life now. God loves meeting you where you are. Enjoy this uplifting message!

Our world is filled with uncertainties and disruptions, and the future may look scary. But God promises His people a future and a hope (Jer 29:11). Preaching out  of the Book of Jeremiah the prophet, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain encourages the church with a powerful message about living by faith and not by sight, so that we are prepared for whatever the future brings. Jeremiah received two visions from God: the branch of an almond tree—symbolizing the end of a season; and a boiling pot—evil will come, but it is contained. Listen to this sermon and learn to stop overestimating evil and underestimating God. Be trained in faith and hope, rebuild your worship altar, and know that Spring is coming.

Jesus is our merciful and faithful High Priest who represents us fully before God—He is able to sympathize with all that we go through: hunger, injustice, tiredness, and every temptation. In this sermon, Pastor Bobby Chaw talks about how Jesus responds to our cry for help—boethéo—by running to us and upholding us so we don't sink. He is full of compassion and understanding. When we face difficulties, Jesus intercedes for us by name, just as He did for Peter, that our faith would not fail us. The Bible calls us a royal priesthood, and we must pray like Jesus our High Priest. Listen to this sermon and be inspired by real-life miracles that happened when Christians interceded in prayer.

When Jesus went to the cross, He saved us not only from sin and guilt but also from Satan and all his evil powers. In this Easter message, Pastor Kong Hee explains what Jesus' death and resurrection means for you, the believer. On the cross, our sins are forgiven, and God in Christ defeated the kingdom of darkness. While the victory has already been won, we have not yet seen and experienced the full manifestation of that victory. We still have to co-exist with evil, but we are no longer in bondage to it. In this sermon, Pastor Kong spells out five types of tyranny that Christ gives us victory over. This is why we rejoice that Jesus is alive!

As we approach Easter, Pastor Kong Hee draws us into a study of significance of the cross in this sermon. To understand the cross, we must understand Who God is: He is holy, He is love and He is truth. God loves man, and God is holy, but man suffers from “total depravity”, and holiness cannot coexist with sin. So how could God solve this divine dilemma of squaring His wrath with His love for mankind? The only way was to send Jesus, fully God and fully Man, to the cross, to fully take the eternal punishment for our sins. Listen to this sermon and learn the four key things that happened on the cross.

In the third installment of this teaching, Pastor Kong Hee brings us a panoramic view of Jesus’ prayer life in five aspects. Jesus prayed in solitude: his constant connection through pray to the Father gave Him the spiritual intelligence to do the right thing. Jesus encountered God when He prayed: every supernatural, life-transforming encounter is a direct result of prayer. Jesus prayed before every major decision. Jesus prayed to overcome temptations. Jesus prayed and trusted God even when the answer was no. Listen to this powerful sermon and be inspired to develop a prayer life like Christ’s.

In this follow-up sermon to his message on the unforced rhythms of grace, where Christians exchange their burdens for the rest of God, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain explores the act of stepping into the rhythms of grace, for we are saved by grace not works. This is the art of waiting on the Lord until your soul finds rest in Him; then blessings, deliverance, salvation come. But waiting is not a mindless, idle act: we are to pray and wait for God to move first. Often, believers want to know how they will blessed, but the answer to their blessing is Who. Listen to this sermon and understand how to step into God's unpredictable rhythms of grace.

This season of Lent, it's time to focus on Jesus and to be reminded that He came to take your burden away and to give you rest. In this encouraging sermon, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain takes us through a study of what resting in God truly means: looking to Jesus when the world is filled with anxiety, as it is during the current COVID-19 outbreak; and understanding that faith is not a reward-based system: God's blessings can't be earned. The currency of this great exchange is learning the unforced rhythms of grace—submitting to God to receive His rewards for us. Listen to this sermon for a revelation of what "not my will, but Yours be done" means.

In this final instalment of his teaching on the prayer life of Jesus, Pastor Kong Hee covers three aspects: first, it is crucial to confess and seek forgiveness during prayers if we have sinned. Next, we must cry out to God and keep asking, petitioning, according to God’s word until we have what we pray for. Finally, when we pray, we adore Jesus with a spirit of thanksgiving. When we can do this we will be filled with God’s rest and supernatural joy. Learn from this sermon how to be like Jesus in your prayer life.