Weekly Sermon Reflection Questions

READ | SERMON NOTES Scripture Passage:  Matthew 1:18-25 Summary l It’s that time of the year again when people celebrate Christmas along the brightly lit roads and decorated shops. But for Joseph, the first Christmas was a perfect storm of […]

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Best of all, God is with us. What really is the true Christmas story? Unwelcome news disrupted his well-thought-out marriage plans. Numb with incomprehensible disappointment, Joseph heard from God’s angel that the child in

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The word joy captures the spirit of Christmas. Yet perhaps, for those of us in pain and living gloomy lives, the symbolism of advent has the most to say. The birth of Christ provides

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Let us posture ourselves correctly as we wait for the Lord to do His work in our hearts and in our Church! Wesley Hall is appropriately launched in the season of Advent and we

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary | In Rm 14, 15, Paul tried to overcome divisions in the Christian community who trusted in God’s promise (fulfilled in Christ’s first coming) and eagerly await His second coming. The scripture passage is the

READ | SERMON NOTES SUMMARY | What is the mark of a Christian?  Love for one another!  This evidence is visibly seen through our practical acts of service and love that the world around us can see.  Abel’s sacrifice to

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l “Never again!”, someone exclaimed. He went on to say, “I will not move again until I hear from God. I don’t want to suffer anymore”. This person had worked in a terrible environment and

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Only those whom Jesus knows, will enter into His Father’s Kingdom. God, In Speaking, Has Made Himself Known. God has spoken of His love that whoever believes in His one and only Son Jesus Christ, shall

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The gospel impacted Paul so much that he devoted his life to God’s kingdom and everything he did revolved around the gospel. What drove Paul to do so? Paul believes the gospel has power

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Apostle Paul was writing this letter from prison to a church he had never met. He wanted to guide them in living a life worthy of the Gospel, and we too can learn from

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The apostle Luke authored the Acts of the Apostles. He was a bold witness who, openly, truthfully and persistently, testified to others of the risen Jesus, through the life of the church. Have we

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l In our pilgrimage, it is always important to know who we are and not be distracted by voices telling us who we should be.  We are sons and daughters of the Living God.  God

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary:      Paul ends the book of Romans with a commendation, a warning and a promise. 1. Commendation (Romans 16:1-16;21-23) Paul uses this chapter to affirm and appreciate many people in Rome. He also includes greetings

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary I Christ-like intentional living goes beyond mere social gathering. Through the early church community of believers, we see attributes to learn from and prioritise today: Advance God’s Mission – Paul was not alone in his

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary | The first 15 chapters of Romans could be a consolidation of Paul’s previous sermons, seminars and debates in his 25 years of ministry. Rom 15:14-24 are like personal notes to a letter. The church

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary | This chapter contains many discipleship lessons although it looks at first glance as if Paul is merely sharing his travel plans. He did not establish nor ever visit the church in Rome personally but

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The apostle Paul teaches us how to walk right with God and one another. The church then was divided over issues like diet and days. This caused heated arguments and church members viewed each

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Romans 14 deals with practical issues which address how Christians should respond when disagreements with each other arise. The Jewish Christians in Rome were evicted from the city and when they returned in A.D.

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l This was Jesus’ final night before He was crucified on the cross.  Jesus and His disciples were preparing to leave the Upper Room, where Jesus had just washed the feet of His disciples.  In

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Just as God can restore life to dry bones, so He can restore our lost hope today.  The prophet Ezekiel was commanded by God to prophesy to a valley of dry bones, so that

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The theme of Romans is that we are made right to walk right. In view of God’s great mercies to save us, we are called to offer our bodies as living sacrifices to live

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Context- Paul was addressing both Gentile and Jewish Christians within the Roman Church. The Jews were expelled in AD 41 and AD 49 by Emperor Claudius but were allowed to return in AD 55-57.

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The apostle Paul exhorts us to respond to God’s mercies by becoming a living sacrifice. We are called to live a counter cultural lifestyle which turns away from a life of the flesh to

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Paul appealed to the Roman Christians to live in a way based on God’s mercy.  God withheld the judgement that we deserved.  Jesus Christ, His beloved son, suffered the punishment that was meant for

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Paul had a burning desire that the Jews would enter into salvation by recognising the truth of Jesus Christ. They were God’s special people and Jesus Christ was one of them and yet they

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Jesus fulfills God’s covenant, and saves us to proclaim the Good News! God who has mercy on those who seek and love Him, fulfills His covenant through Jesus Christ in whose righteousness both Jews

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l By the time he wrote Romans 9-11, Paul would have been preaching and teaching God’s salvation plan for more than 20 years. He had encountered these frequently asked questions that he needed to address:

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l In Romans 9 to 11, Paul touched on how God dealt with the election of Israel and God’s plan for salvation with a total of 45 quotations and references from the Old Testament Scriptures.

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l A life in the Spirit entails suffering. (Rom 8:17)Is the suffering that we go through worth it? Three spiritual realities: Present Suffering (v 18-27) The suffering in the current age is not worth comparing

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The first half of Romans 8 describes how believers are to live by the Spirit, ending with the truth that “we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his