Doing Faith with Andrew Kulasingham

Drawing form Mark's narrative of Jesus calming the storm, Pastor Andrew Kulasingham delves into the essence of Biblical peace. He offers guidance on navigating the storms of life, steering clear of the external turmoil they bring, and instead, experiencing perfect peace amidst the tempests.

In this message, Ps Andrew Kulasingham encourages us to forget the past to embrace God's plan for our future. Exhorting us from the words of the prophet Isaiah, he stresses that the command to forget the former things is the command to forget how miracles occur but remember who the source of those miracles is. The command to forget the former things is to prepare you for the new thing god is about to do.

In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham looks at the story of the rich young ruler in Luke's Gospel. His extreme wealth was his superpower. All of us have something we cling on to as our superpower. It could be our jobs, our relationships, our church. But the emphasis is always on what we do. What we do at work, what we do with our family, what we do in church – seldom is it about who we are – who are we at work? Who are we at home? Who are we when we are in  fellowship together? If you didn't have your superpower, who would you be?

The Christmas story is a messy one. The Bible doesn't shy away from the messiness of the Christmas narrative. Life is messy on this side of eternity, and the Christmas story reflects that messiness.  In this sermon, Pastor Andrew Kulasingham invites you to see the Divine in the midst of your messy life.

Faith sees beyond the visible into the realities which are in the unseen Divine realm. There is a source of evidence that is separate from what is visible to the naked eye. We know that in the natural seeing is believing. But the Bible speaks of another way of seeing beyond what is visible. Paul called it walking by faith. In this message Ps Andrew Kulasingham encourages us to put on the lenses of faith to see the workings of God in the invisible realm. In that realm, seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing.

After an earthquake it is critical that we check if the foundations of a building is compromised. If so we strengthen the foundations. We need to do the same when we experience a shaking in life too. In this message, Ps Andrew Kulasingham takes us to Hebrews 11 to check the foundations of our faith and strengthen it. Drawing from the ancient fathers of our faith in the bible, we will see how they framed their worlds – how they thought, spoke and lived their lives – framed by the word of God.

The message of the resurrection is not logical but it is true. We are called to believe in the Easter message. However believing that Jesus is risen is not enough. Ps Andrew Kulasingham brings an Easter message challenging us not just to believe the resurrection story but to live the resurrection life.

Have you ever had one of your electronic devices undergo a factory reset. It's hard reset where the device is restored back to it's original settings. The implications of a factory reset is, all information on that device will be wiped out. The first Christmas was actually a factory reset. God had put the entire systems of the world on a hard reset. Everything that was assumed, everything that was believed in, every theological idea about God, every interpretation of the Scriptures went through a hard reset when Jesus Christ came to earth. In this message, Ps Andrew Kulasingham invites us to revisit every idea of God we have and let it come through the lenses of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus has come to earth – Merry Christmas – We now need to deal with it.

The apostle John indicts the world of rejecting the Christ when He first appeared. The most severe indictment was reserved for God's people. “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.” In this week's message Ps Andrew Kulasingham looks at the reasons why even the people of God who were awaiting their Messiah missed the Christ when he appeared before them. They wore blinkers. Are the same blinkers blinding us from seeing the Christ in our daily lives?

What does a christian look like? Can someone recognise a christian if they saw them in the street? In this message Rhena Kulasingham shows us through the life of Jesus in the Gospels how a christian should live their everyday life. There are tell tale signs. There are identifiable markers of a disciple of Jesus Christ.

The most arrogant thing we humans do is to have the audacity to ask the question – where is God when bad things happen? Bad things happen because we do it to each other. Then we ask where is God? When faced with a crisis the question should never be “where is God?” The question should always be “where are you?” In this message Ps Andrew Kulasingham looks at the story of Abraham offering Isaac at Mount Moriah. We see in Genesis 22, three times Abraham says Hineni! and makes himself available and present – to God, to his troubled son and to the supernatural.

In every church there are two groups of christians. Those who gather and those who are pursuing God. There are the crowds who gather every Sunday, then there are disciples who are chasing after more of God. In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham challenges us not to be satisfied with hand-me-down experiences of God. Don't settle for a second hand faith. Pursue God yourself. Experience your own Divine encounters. Live your own prayer answering, supernatural, miracle filled life with Christ.

The church is a community that is gated and shepherded. It should be a place you feel safe and secure in your journey with God. In this message Ps Andrew Kulasingham shows us how we can build and maintain that safe community as we ensure that Christ only is the gate and Christ only is the shepherd.

How seriously do we take the words of our Lord Jesus Christ? In Hebrews 2:1-4 the author of Hebrews gives a warning about taking the message of Christ lightly. The danger is that we will drift away. In this message Ps Andrew Kulasingham shows us the importance of taking the message of Christ to heart and invites us to reflect on the condition of our hearts and how we are responding to the Word of God.

Jesus taught us to be childlike in our relationship with God. The biggest challenge we have in our relationship with God is how to relate to Him as a toddler relates to their father. Most of the time we relate to God as adult children. We are adults. Independent, capable, self sufficient adults. We relate to God as adult children. In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham unpacks what it means to relate to God with childlike faith. He shows us the difference between childlike faith and childish behaviour. 

Albert Einstein said, “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” There are two movements Jesus spoke of that keeps a believer living a balanced life. In this message Ps Andrew Kulasingham talks about the need for us to learn the rhythm of living the spiritual life in order to maintain a balanced life.

Throughout Biblical history, God's people have always shown signs of being self absorbed. Nothing has changed. The church today is equally preoccupied with ourselves and tend to relate to God on our own terms. This “God on my terms” christian life has produced a type of christianity that has a form of godliness without the power of the resurrected Christ. In this week's sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham invites us to move away from a self absorbed version of the gospel into a Christ centred gospel.

In two occasions Paul refers to the individual christian and the church as the temple of the living God. Do you realise the significance of that? We carry the presence of God in us. God dwells in us. God walks among us. In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham challenges us to see ourselves as temples of the living God. What would that look like if we truly believed God was now walking among us?

What have you been focused on this last week? Have you been preoccupied with temporal things and worldly issues while neglecting the most important thing God has required of you? Is God really concerned about things that concern this world or is he looking for a surrendered life? In today's sermon Ps Andrew Kulasingham looks at Luke 20:21-26 and the uncomfortable relationship between believers and worldly governments.

I Corinthians 13 is generally known as an ode to love. In it's original context however Paul wrote it as part of his letter to the church dealing with multiple issues that were tearing the church up. It was a wake up call to a church so dysfunctional, disunited and disjointed. If ever the modern day church needed this text it is today. With all the issues that are dividing the church we need to revisit this popular text and seek again the counsel of the apostle. He calls the way of love the most excellent way. The way that exceeds all other human ways of doing life. In this week's message, Ps Andrew Kulasingham invites us to take a hard look at this passage and see if we are indeed taking the path of the most excellent way.

19th century theologian Emil Bruner said “The church exists by mission as a fire exists by burning”. In other words if it's not burning, it's not a fire. If we are not saving the lost, we are not the church. In this message, Ps Andrew Kulasingham reminds us of the one and only mandate the church has been given – to seek and save the lost. Using the 3 parables in Luke chapter 15, we are invited to see the world as Christ sees the world – not as sinners but as children of God who are lost.

We speak often of Jesus as Saviour and Lord. Seldom do we hear about Jesus as a king with a kingdom. Yet in both Luke's New Testament books, his Gospel and the book of Acts, you will find repeatedly the phrase “Kingdom of God”. The message of the Kingdom of God was the first and last thing Jesus preached during his time on earth. In this message Ps Andrew Kulasingham challenges you to consider if Jesus is truly king and if so is He your king?

Do you know why of you exist? Do you know why you wake up everyday? What makes you tick? In this message Ps Andrew Kulasingham looks at the man Jesus as told to us by Luke in his Gospel. Jesus who had a job, who had to walk for miles to do what he had to do, had to have money to do go about the call of God in His life. What made the man Jesus tick? We will see that the man Jesus knew the why of his existence even at the age of 12 and lived his life with this one thing motivating his life on earth.

Seeing alone is not believing. If we want to live a life by the power of Jesus name, then our seeing must be influenced by our life experiences with God. In this special Easter message, Ps Andrew Kulasingham encourages us to increase in our experiential knowledge of God in order to create new seeing – a seeing Paul refers to as walking by faith and not by sight.

This is a special message for Good Friday. Ps Andrew Kulasingham brings a short reflection based on Isaiah 53 and 54.

What would your last words on earth be? The reality is, what you believe about death is driving the way you live your life daily. How much of your everyday life contributes to your life after death? Do you ask yourself that question? You should. Believing that resurrection is real but living as if this life is the only life we have – that's pitiful. Will you choose a life with eternity in mind? Will you do, say and live moment by moment of your life, drawing from the power of the resurrected Christ and investing in the life to come. We hope this sermon from Ps Andrew Kulasingham will inspire you to do so.

Did you know that the seed of the Gospel is the Abrahamic Covenant? The good news of Jesus Christ is not about following a set of rules and regulations. It is about obeying the voice of God and entering into a lifestyle of being blessed and being a blessing. In this final sermon of a 3-part series on the power to bless, Ps Andrew Kulasingham revisits the Abrahamic Covenant and shows us the importance of understanding two foundational concepts every christian must understand - we are called to be blessed and we are called to be a blessing.

The Bible tells us that we called to be blessed and we are called to be a blessing. Being blessed is the precursor of becoming a blessing. If we live our lives unaware of or not experiencing the blessings of God, how are we to be a channel of blessing to all the families on the earth? In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham highlights the importance of blessing God, blessings self in order to become a channel of blessing to others.

The psalmist speaks to his soul and instructs it to bless the Lord. As we  reflect on psalm 106, we realise he is instructing us all to bless the Lord for our own sakes. This week, Ps Andrew Kulasingham looks at this concept of blessing God and how it is the only medication for two diseases of the soul – pride and ingratitude.

The sole purpose we exist as a church is to be lights. Every christian exists to be a light in the world – to be an avenue for someone to see the Father through us. Without light, there would be no sight. This week, Ps Andrew Kulasingham reminds us that to keep our lamps burning we need to have oil in our lamps. The Challenge is – do we have enough oil in our lamps. He recommends to regular pitfalls that we should make in order to fuel up so we keep burning throughout our journey on earth.

In an age where there seems to be versions of truth, Christians are faced with a barrage of ideas and opinions that we are constantly fed through the social media and other sources. Information overload is the main cause of spiritual indigestion. In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham challenges us to fix our eyes on things above and not be a bottom feeder scavenging on earthly things.

What will 2022 look like for you? Are you entering the new year with great expectations for a better year ahead of you? If so, what will you do differently to ensure that you experience a better year than you had the year before? Based on the Parable of the Minas in Luke 19, Ps Andrew Kulasingham invites us to consider 3 changes in our lives that will ensure we live a Kingdom life and remain occupied with Kingdom business.

We live in a world that is unable to acknowledge, let alone recognise God or God moments. What does it take to recognise God and God moments? In this sermon Ps Andrew Kulasingham invites us to live a life of obedience, prayer and a decluttered life, so we will see God moments as a daily occurrence in our lives.

Are you looking for God in your everyday routines? Or have you assigned God a space and spend the rest of your days, weeks, months and years on so called “doing life”? In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham invites us to consider what we focus on in our daily lives. If God is not what you are focusing on – you are seeing something else. And what you see is what you will bow down to. What you see is what you worship.

We are at war. The church is not a cruise ship but a battleship. The church is engaging in a hostile takeover. The Kingdom of the world must “become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever”. But our war is not a physical one but a spiritual one. In this message Andrew Kulasingham speaks about where the real battle is – the battle in our minds. 

Discipleship is a missing word in the lips of the modern day christian. The focus today is more on making church members than making disciples. Church attendance and religious adherence have become the focus and very little is said about becoming a follower of Christ. The outcome of such a focus is the idea of salvation without the need for obedience. In this week's message, Andrew Kulasingham refutes the idea that you can receive Jesus as your saviour without acknowledging Him as Lord. Just like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, the concept of salvation without obedience is a myth. There is no such thing as being saved without being a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Are you distracted from your mandate? Do you know what you have been called to do? Do you know who you are and what you have been mandated to do on earth? Andrew Kulasingham brings to us the second of a 3-part series on the Great Commission, which is the mandate for all followers of Christ. In this message, Andrew speaks of the transformational power given to every christian sent out to all nations. Find out what are the marks of an ambassador of Christ. 

In the midst of the global chaos and confusion brought about by Covid, have we as Christians become so pre-occupied by the happenings around us to the point we have neglected our role as followers of Christ? As Christians we are carrying a mandate. We have been given a mission – The Great Commission. We cannot complete this mandate until we fully understand what Jesus meant when He said He has all authority. In this message, we look at the difference between the concept of power and authority. When we understand the significance of Jesus authority, we will understand the potential we have as His followers.

Do you know that as people of God we can develop a serious spiritual condition that can be fatal to our faith journey? Ps Andrew Kulasingham speaks to us about a condition he calls spiritual amnesia. How easily we forget God. How easily we forget what He has done for us. How easily we forget the prayers He has answered, His miracles. We forget too easily. This sermon is about the dangers of forgetting God and the remedies for overcoming spiritual amnesia.

In this sermon, Ps Andrew Kulasingham takes us to the New Testament where Paul speaks about the culture of honour in the context of 3 very important relationships – the relationship between a husband and a wife, the relationship between parents and children and the relationship between employers and employees. In Ephesians 5 and 6, Paul shows us how honour is played out in these three different environments.

Honour has become an archaic word in modern times. Honour however plays such a pivotal role in causing all our relationships to thrive and flourish. This week, Ps Andrew Kulasingham shares from Exodus 20:12 on the value of creating a culture of honour in all our relationships, and it starts in the home.

Every seed planted in your heart becomes a thought. Your thoughts become your patterns of speech. Your talk eventually leads you to your actions. What seeds are planted in your garden? Toxic seeds produce toxic weeds. Let God plant the seeds in your heart. Then you can be rest assured your heart will be a garden that bears fruit of righteousness. This week's message looks at Matthew 15:1-20.

Faith is not an intellectual exercise. Faith is something made visible through our actions. This week we look at James 2:21-22 to see the correlation between our faith and our actions. It is time we activate our faith.

This is a special message brought to us by Rhena Kulasingham. Rhena shares with us a dream she had and the message the Lord gave her about His imminent return. This is a poignant word for all of us in the season we find ourselves in.

What would you do if you were faced with a choice of either being in with the crowd and forsaking Christ or be loyal to Christ at the risk of losing the ability to achieve wealth and success? This week we look at the church in Thyatira which faced tremendous personal suffering and persecution because they chose not to be part of the demonic structure that demanded loyalty to the world at the expense of following Christ. At the end of the day we have to ask ourselves a very difficult question – are we choosing to side with the world or will we stay loyal and devoted to Christ? Are we sheep or goats?

Compromise is a slippery slope. Jesus rebuked the church in Pergamum for accommodating two groups of teaching that were diluting their testimony in the city. First there was “the talk without the walk” group. Then there was the “in the world and of the world” so called believers. This message calls out the two conditions of the heart that can potentially destroy our testimony among those we are called to reach.

This week we look at the church in Smyrna. The suffering and poverty experienced by the church in Smyrna didn't make them bitter but produced in them a richness that preserved their faith. Their testimony went up to God as incense of worship and scented the environment around them that was visible to the world. We draw some lessons from this suffering church.

The church in Ephesus had a zeal for truth that Christ commended. But their zeal got the better of them and they found themselves receiving a severe warning from the Lord. In their zeal to defend the truth, they had divorced themselves from love. Zeal divorced from love is a destructive force. The call of Christ was for them to remember their first love, repent and do the first works. In our quest to defend our christian values, have we become so caught up in the fight that we have left our first love and abandoned our first works? This message is an apt reminder to check if our testimony is still intact.

The Scriptures teach us that Divine revelation is reserved for those who pursue it. In this fast paced, everyday world, our attention is so divided that God can sometimes be an after thought and pursuing God an activity when we can spare the time. The reality is, the only way we are going to experience the complete healing and restoration we are longing for is if we pursue God with all our heart. The problem does not lie with the world or the external environment we live in. It really is about the condition of our heart. The heart of the matter lies in the matters of the heart.

One of the most effective devices used by the devil against God's people is delayed prayer. Unanswered prayer is inconsistent with the nature of God. Unanswered prayer is incompatible to the power of the name of Jesus Christ. When you face unanswered prayer giving up is not an option. Relentless prayer is our only weapon against delayed prayer.

This is a special message brought to us by a dear friend and partner in ministry, David Turner. David shares with us his story of recent events that have taught him the nature of God as a deliverer and the call of God for believers to be overcomers. We trust you will be blessed by this message.