“Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:3, NIV)

This week is the third Sunday of Advent focussing on the promise of Joy. This sermon explores John the Baptist’s question from prison to Jesus: “Are you the One?” and how Jesus answers our doubts with the transforming evidence of his kingdom already breaking into the world. We will reflect on how joy and sorrow mingle in the Christian life, especially when God doesn’t meet our expectations, and how Jesus invites us into a deeper, anchored joy grounded in who he truly is.

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The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord

(Isaiah 11:2, NIV)

This week is the second Sunday of Advent focussing on the promise that Jesus is the Prince of Peace. The sermon will focus on the passage from Isaiah, which proclaims Jesus as the promised shoot from Jesse’s stump—the Spirit-filled King who brings justice, peace, and restoration. The focus is on hope rising out of ruins, and on Christ’s power to create life where we see only devastation.

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Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. (Revelation 3:20, NIV)

This week’s message continues our look at the letter to Laodicea and concludes our journey through the Jesus’ letters to the church in Revelation. Again, the passage reminds us that Jesus lovingly confronts our comfort and self-reliance through discipline (the refiner’s fire) so that He can restore our zeal, dependence, and intimacy with Him. Laodicea teaches us that true wealth, righteousness, and sight are found only in Christ.

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Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. (Revelation 3:20, NIV)

This week’s message reminds us that Jesus lovingly confronts our comfort and self-reliance through discipline (the refiner’s fire) so that He can restore our zeal, dependence, and intimacy with Him. Laodicea teaches us that true wealth, righteousness, and sight are found only in Christ. We respond in worship by re-centering our lives on Jesus our true King and opening the door of our hearts and community to Him again.

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See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. (Revelation 3:8, NIV)

This week’s message focuses on Jesus’ words to the faithful but fragile church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7–13). Though they had little strength, they held fast — and Jesus promises them an open door, an enduring crown, and a place in God’s eternal presence. Worship can celebrate Jesus’s sovereignty, faithfulness, and our secure identity in Him, emphasizing endurance, trust, and hope.

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Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. (Revelation 3:2, NIV)

This sermon invites the congregation to move from reputation to reality—from the appearance of life to genuine vitality in Christ. We want to emphasize awakening, repentance, renewal, and the breath of the Spirit and Christ’s victorious life.

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