City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

Pressure is the nature of life. With the right amount of pressure, we can be challenged and motivated to achieve our potential in life. Stress, on the other hand, is a negative internal reaction that arises when the demand is too excessive for us to handle. Stress is destructive and can affect our mental and physical state aversely.How do we deal with worry and anxiety? How do we keep the stress from eating up our emotional and mental wellbeing?  How do we handle pressure and thrive in the midst of it? The good news is that we have an inner man that is plugged into the Holy Spirit. Learn the key to growing and enlarging your inner man through the power of the Holy Spirit; and learn how you can build up your mental strength. 

The first time Jesus revealed His glory was at the wedding of Cana (John 2) where He performed His first miracle: turning water into wine. From this passage, Pastor Wu Yu Zhuang preaches a revelatory message about how Jesus' love for us compels Him to move the timetable forward or back when we ask, if we turn to Him, have faith in Him and obey Him. Wine is often associated with joy—believers run out of wine when "uninvited guests" show up. These guests include unhealthy relationships, negative emotions and judgmental attitudes. Listen to this sermon and discover how the Lord can and will "bring back the wine (joy)" to your life.

When the external pressure gets too much for us to handle, we can sometimes experience an emotional breakdown. If we do not have emotional resilience, we will easily reach the limits of our patience and grace.Do you struggle with giving and receiving love? Are you easily short fused and find yourself running out of patience most of the time? If your answer is yes, then it may be time to enlarge your emotional capacity.Find out what are the factors in life that limit your emotional capacity and how you can enlarge your heart and increase your emotional resilience by learning from our best example—Jesus Christ. 

In this message, Bobby Chaw shares three things that assures believers of the Holy Spirit's presence in their lives. He is the seal that is placed upon a person when He believes in Jesus Christ—a seal that assures us of the protection of the most high God. The Holy Spirit is also the pledge, a guarantee that God will keep His promises. And finally the Holy Spirit, as it says in Romans 8:16, "bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God", giving us that eternal confidence that is present daily. Listen to this sermon and be assured that you are loved and accepted by God.

The fourth dimension is the realm of the Holy Spirit. It is the invisible, spiritual realm of faith with the power to create and bring change. No matter what we are going through today, when we step into the fourth dimension, just as how the Holy Spirit brought clarity and purpose to the disciples on the Day of Pentecost, He is able to bring calm to any chaos and creative solutions to any problem. How do we step into the fourth dimension and engage the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives? Pastor Kong takes us through four areas—our thoughts, our visions and dreams, our believing, and our speaking—to welcome the Holy Spirit in. Get ready for an adventure with Him!

God's goal for believers and for the church is that they grow into spiritual maturity. Preaching out of Ephesians, Aries Zulkarnain explains that to be mature is to be fully developed inside and out, and to be fully alive like Jesus Christ.  This requires the believer to be balanced—able to embrace the spiritual and the earthly simultaneously. Balance allows a Christian to expect a miracle from God and, at the same time, embrace the mystery of God. God may not meet our expectations, and the reason for that could be that He wants to exceed it. Discover how to develop the maturity to trust in the Lord and let Him have His way in your life.

Did you know that the new heaven and new earth does not refer to a completely new universe? It is the same current heaven and earth—purified and renewed, with no more sin and wickedness. So what we do here on earth in this lifetime has important bearings on our eternal life. All of this present life is a preparation for our future ministry in glory.With that in mind, we need to ask ourselves an all-important question—what are we living for? Find out how you can have a legacy for eternity, a legacy with kingdom inheritance, and a legacy of heavenly blessings!

In this third instalment of his series on the Holy Spirit, Bobby Chaw explains what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit. It is when the presence and power of the Holy Spirit override a person's normal abilities and actions and miracles happen. Why is this then not the norm? Because believers lack the fullness of the Spirit; it is only when we are totally influenced and dominated by the Holy Spirit in our life and ministry that transformation happens. Listen to this sermon and find out what barriers keep us from the fullness of the Holy Spirit and how to overcome them.

Have you ever wondered what the New Jerusalem—where we will dwell in eternity—would be like? Isaiah 60 tells us that life in the Holy City will not be unfamiliar to us because whatever is here on earth now (commerce, creativity, culture, etc.) will be redeemed, restored, repaired and renewed for God’s ultimate purpose and glory! So our life here on earth is a preparation for our glorious future ministry in eternity.How then shall we prepare ourselves to march into the Holy City to dwell in Christ for all eternity? Learn how we can actively seek after the Holy City (Heb. 13:14) here and now as we pattern our life and ministry after it.

At CHC's celebration of its 30 years of ministry, Kong Hee preaches that as the church steps into maturity, its focus must be what the Westminster Catechism declares: "The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." The glory of God is manifested in Presence, Power and Character: when the presence of God is ushered in, when the power of God is displayed, and when the character of God is witnessed through His people. To fully understand the glory of God, our focus must be Jesus Christ. Listen and discover why Jesus must be the center of it all.