The City SG Podcast

496. Ecclesiastes: Ancient Wisdom for a World Losing its Way - The Gift Hidden in the Ordinary // Sng Peh Han by The City, Singapore

495. Ecclesiastes: Ancient Wisdom for a World Losing its Way - When Wisdom Isn't Enough // Sng Peh Han by The City, Singapore

494. Ecclesiastes: Ancient Wisdom for a World Losing its Way- The Hustle That Doesn't Heal // Christine Indrali by The City, Singapore

493. Ecclesiastes: Ancient Wisdom for a World Losing its Way - Something Feels Off // Sng Peh Han by The City, Singapore

492. Dear Church: The Heart of a Son // Wu Xianyi by The City, Singapore

491. Dear Church: Love the Word // Jonathan Tong by The City, Singapore

490. Dear Church: Ask Holy Spirit // David Tan by The City, Singapore

489. Jesus: In Scripture and Song - Longing For Home // Timothy Seow by The City, Singapore

488. The Ache for Home // Janice Chern by The City, Singapore

487. The Life of a Disciple: Open Tables, Open Hearts (Week 15) // Sng Peh Han by The City, Singapore

486. The Life of a Disciple: Sharing Your Faith (with the Power of the Holy Spirit) (Week 14) // David Loh by The City, Singapore

485. The Life of a Disciple: Love that Speaks (Week 13) // Timothy Seow by The City, Singapore

484. The Life of a Disciple: The Witness of a Changed Life (Week 12) // Sng Peh Han by The City, Singapore

483. From Dead Works to Living Hope // Christine Indrali by The City, Singapore

482. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted for Righteousness' Sake (Week 11) // Sng Peh Han by The City, Singapore

481. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed Are the Pure in Heart (Week 10) // Andre Tan by The City, Singapore

480. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed Are the Merciful (Week 9) // Andre Tan by The City, Singapore

479. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed Are The Peacemakers (Week 8) // Don Wong by The City, Singapore

478. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness (Week 8) // Sng Peh Han by The City, Singapore

477. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed are the Meek (Week 6) // Timothy Seow by The City, Singapore

476. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed are Those Who Mourn (Week 5) // Janice Chern by The City, Singapore

475. The Life of a Disciple: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit (Week 4) // Andre Tan by The City, Singapore

474. The Life of A Disciple: What God Sounds Like (Week 3) // Timothy Seow by The City, Singapore

“We're not chasing something new for the sake of novelty — we're reclaiming what has always been ours: a living, mystical and transformative relationship with the God who speaks, acts, and makes Himself known.” - @pehhan82 Ps. Peh Han brought a word titled Hearing God in a Disenchanted World, as part of our Hearing the Voice of God sermon series. In our pursuit of what's practical, efficient, and logical, we often leave little room for the supernatural voice of God. We build our lives on culture and media, rather than on the Word. He reminded us to remember our spiritual heritage — we are a people shaped by God's story, not the world's. He called us to root our lives in Scripture, to rediscover the art of deep listening, and to lean into communion with God — not just as a discipline, but as a relationship marked by intimacy, trust, and revelation. There is an invitation to lean in and listen again, because God is deeply relational and still speaks. And to those who listen, He longs to reveal Himself, to guide, and to teach His ways.

472. The Life of a Disciple: Hearing the Voice of God (Week 1) // Janice Chern by The City, Singapore

“Too often, we reduce scripture to the level of our experience. Instead, we are called to raise our expectation to the level of scripture.” - @andrejosiah Last Sunday, Ps. Andre kicked off the ‘Life of a Disciple' sermon series, challenging us to align our lives with God's heart, not as an exception, but as the standard. He cast a compelling vision of what it truly means to live for Jesus, becoming Spirit-formed disciples who are faithful in private and public—answering the call to raise our expectations to the level of Scripture. He left us with a powerful question to reflect on: Do you have a minimum standard for your discipleship? Our prayer is that we will be stirred to not settle for spiritual maintenance, but instead, to earnestly pursue growth and transformation, seeking to live with the radical obedience and faithful commitment that reflects the fullness of Christ in our lives.

“What are we giving our lives to and labouring toward? How we view the end determines how we live our lives.” - @jasonchua.sg Jason shared from Psalm 1 and 2 and called us to rediscover discipleship- living with God's mission and the end in view, that we might give our lives wholly to His purpose. When we see the end through the lens of Scripture, we gain the wisdom to remain anchored, align with God's will to glorify His Son, and stay faithful in a culture of compromise. May our response be to return to the place of prayer and giving ourselves fully to our calling to proclaim the worth of Jesus to the nations.

“If you do not fear God above all, you will end up fearing something else, and that fear will quietly become your god.” - @andrejosiah Ps. Andre brought us a word on fear and faith. In life, there will be moments where we are afraid and it will often times stand between us and action. Speaking from the book of Judges, we see how God led Gideon out of fear and into faith. Stepping out of fear is a journey of faith and trust - trusting in how God sees us, even though our surroundings and self-perception say otherwise; trusting that God is with us, even in the ordinary and everyday; and trusting that God will use us, even if our “yes” is weak and our step of faith is small. We pray that in the moments where we are fearful, we will know and remember that we do not need to be afraid because God is with us. We can have faith and draw strength from God's presence, who is our courage. #wearethecitysg #sundaysatthecitysg

“When the church lives in unity, the world sees the Gospel embodied, and Jesus is glorified.” - @chrisvonne In week 4 of our series on the book of Titus, Ps. Christine brought us a word on Persevering Unity. Referencing Titus 3:9-11 and 14-15, we are shown how to build and guard unity among ourselves: by avoiding distractions, dealing with division and dissension, practicing gentleness with one another, and devoting ourselves to good works. May we continuously persevere towards unity, modeling what a missionally fruitful community can look like.

“God's grace doesn't just save us—it trains, humbles, renews, and forms us into a people who reflect the goodness of God in every season of life.” - @janicechinchern In week 3 of our sermon series, Ready For Every Good Work, Janice shared on Grace-Filled Works, anchored on Titus 2:11–14. She reminded us that grace is not passive—it is active and transformative in training us - teaching us to reject what is ungodly, and wait in hope for Christ's return. Grace forms us not through striving, but through surrender. As we navigate life between the two appearings of Christ—His first coming and His return—may we remain steadfast, open-handed, and dependent. As we embark on a new week, may we continue to seek the Lord and pray into ways that we can - in our individual and life as a church community - be trained, humbled and renewed by God's grace, that we may be ready for every good work.

Camp Pilgrim - The Commission by The City, Singapore

Camp Pilgrim Session 3 by The City, Singapore

Camp Pilgrim Session 2 by The City, Singapore

“Being an intergenerational church is ultimately about building deep discipling relationships across generations that will mature the Body of Christ and embody the Gospel to our family, our children and all those afar off.” - @timothyshaun In week 2 of the sermon series on Titus, Ready For Every Good Work, Timothy brought us a message titled “Intergenerational Relationships” anchored on Titus 2:1-5. He reminded us of the value of building meaningful relationships across generations—where discipleship goes beyond programmes and becomes deeply personal. True discipleship is cultivated through modelling, accountability, and encouragement. It's how we care for one another's spiritual growth, reflect God's heart for His Church, and ultimately reach the lost. As we seek to be a church that is fruitful, may the Holy Spirit stir within us a deeper desire to walk closely with one another—expanding our hearts to include the wider community and investing in relationships marked by wisdom, transparency, and love.

“Biblical leadership comes from divine calling and its purpose is to help God's people grow in faith and the knowledge of the truth, which should lead to godliness.” - @pehhan82 Ps. Peh Han kicked off our new sermon series, Ready For Every Good Work, sharing from the book of Titus. He reminded us that godly leadership is key to building a fruitful, Christ-centered community. Just as Titus brought order to the chaos in Crete, God uses leaders of character to bring healing and restoration to our broken world. But for many, past hurts from leadership make it difficult to embrace God's call. Ps. Peh Han reminded us that we can take heart in the knowledge that God can use us as vessels of redemption, if we would let Him do a new work in and through us. We pray you were blessed by the word and encouraged to step into God's call as we continue to pursue intimacy in our walk with Christ.

“The greatest spiritual danger is not just that we might fall into sin, but that we might simply stop caring. That we might live our lives in quiet despair and call it maturity.” - @andrejosiah Ps. Andre anchored his message in 2 Peter 1:3-11, reminding us not to settle for spiritual laziness or mediocre faith. Familiarity can easily lead to complacency—our passion fades, Scripture feels dry, and church becomes routine. But this weariness isn't the absence of God; it's a deeper longing to pursue Him more intentionality and move into deeper connection. He also warned that all sin leads to death, especially sloth—a spiritual sin that narrows our vision, dulls our hunger for God and breeds indifference. May we examine our lives and reflect where we have settled into cruise control, to pray for empowerment by the Spirit to refuse spiritual passivity and be encouraged that it's never too late to start again in our pursuit of God.

“Victories and deliverance reveal who God is—but it's in the valleys and testing that we're shaped to pursue holiness.” – @jonathantwl This morning, Jonathan shared on The Testing, The Valleys, and The Waiting—deeply formative seasons where God refines and sanctifies us. In the testing, may we lay down our pride and weakness before Him. In the valley, may we allow God to reveal and reshape what needs surrender. In the waiting, may we commit our steps to God, that He may take preeminence. Through every season, may we trust in God's heart and embrace His desire to make us more like Him.

“Where do your identity, power and strength come from? God invites us to move away from self-reliance to reliance on Him, knowing that His power is made perfect in our weakness.” - @xianyi Speaking from the life of Moses, Xianyi shared how God's power was made perfect in Moses' weakness. Moses went from a powerful, self-sufficient prince, to a powerless peasant, to a prophet whose power and strength came from God. As followers of Christ, we are called to come to God with an open-hand posture of surrender, laying down our pride and acknowledging our weakness. In that place, God meets us where we are, giving us His power that we can rely on. Are there areas in your life - the things that you draw your identity, power and strength from - that God wants you to lay down, so that He may display His all-sufficient grace in your life?

“A nurturing community is one where every member brings life to another, helping each other grow through mutual care.” - @chrisvonne Ps. Christine encouraged us to be a nurturing church. Speaking from Romans 12:9-21, we learnt what love in action looks like, and how we are called to behave as followers of Christ. She emphasised 3 key points on what a nurturing community should be: 1. One with the right heart posture, expressing love that is sincere and honouring, not self-serving. 2. One that is present and shows up through seasons, holding space for people to open up. 3. One that is patient and shows grace even through conflict, focusing on forgiveness and restoration. In a world where people are spiritually neglected, may we be a spiritually nurturing church where those who are hurting can heal. May we also experience God's nuture first so that we can be the physical expression of His love and care to the people around us.

“As Christians, we were never meant to live a life bound by unforgiveness.” - David Tan This morning, David spoke to us on “The Freedom to Forgive”. Drawing from the parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18:23-35, we learn that God, in His grace and mercy, forgives us of our debts. Likewise, we are called to forgive others, which is to release any further feelings and anger towards the person or people who have wronged us. When we forgive and repent, it allows us to live in freedom in spirit, soul and body by letting go of everything else and aligning ourselves to Christ. We pray that God will reveal the depths of His forgiveness to us, that we would receive it and learn to forgive ourselves and others quickly.

Christianity doesn't leave us to face death alone. Instead, it gives us a Champion who has defeated death, and who pardons and covers us with His love.” - @andrejosiah At our Resurrection Sunday service, Pastor Andre concluded our series on the Seven "I Am"s of Jesus - with a sharing on Jesus as the Resurrection and the Life. Many of us fear death, and are reluctant to face our own mortality. We find it hard to comprehend a life beyond this present world, and think that this is all we will ever experience and enjoy. However, as we reflect on Jesus' death and resurrection, we are reminded that our Saviour has conquered death for us. Because He is risen, we are raised to new life in Him. We can now have hope, even through loss, and can live with resurrection courage because nothing, not even death, can separate us from the love of God. Christ is risen. He is risen, indeed!

“Jesus is the way to the Father, manifests the truth of the Father, and gives us the life of the Father.” - Peh Han On week 6 of our Lent series, The Seven “I Am”s of Jesus, and Ps. Peh Han brought us a word on Jesus being the way, the truth and the life. Speaking from John 14:1-6, Jesus declares Himself as the way - the bridge between us and the Father, the truth - the anchor and answer to every chain of life's questions, and the life - who authors, gives and sustains life. Through Jesus, we are invited to come home to the Father and commune with Him the way we were created to. Amidst the doubt and confusion that life throws at us, may we continue being anchored in Jesus by walking the narrow way towards the life we were called to in Christ, and recognise that Jesus is the only truth that we should believe.

“To abide is to draw life from something - to stay close and long enough so that whatever you're abiding in begins to shape, nourish and form you.” - @andrejosiah In week 5 of our Lent series on the seven “I Am”s of Jesus, we dive into Jesus being the vine. Focusing on John 15:1-11, Ps. Andre shares that because Jesus is the true vine, we now have direct access to God through abiding in Jesus. To abide is to make your home in something or somewhere. When Jesus calls us to abide in Him, He is saying to us to make our home in Him, as He makes His home in us. Just like a branch draws life from a vine, as we remain in Jesus, we draw life from Him and are shaped into His likeness. And just as a gardener prunes the branches that bear fruit so that it can be even more fruitful, we face seasons of trials and tribulations that test our faith to purify and prepare us to receive more of what God has promised us. As we learn to continually abide in the true vine and root our lives in Him, we pray that we would not rush through life, strive to prove ourselves or shy away from suffering, but to recognise that we are already loved and chosen by God, and that our joy is complete in Him.

“Our security lies in our proximity to the Good shepherd. We can trust Jesus the good shepherd to lead and care for us.” - @pehhan82 Pst Peh Han continued our Lent series on the Seven “I Ams” of Jesus, with a sharing on Jesus as our shepherd. Jesus' leadership of His flock is the antithesis of today's ideas strong leadership - self sacrificial and meek, He watches over His sheep with deep concern and care because we are His own. The question for us today is: do we know His voice, just as He knows us intimately? May we desire to cultivate a deep and personal relationship with our shepherd, and answer His call to hand our lives completely to Him as He leads us into the future we long for.

“Living a vibrant life in the Lord involves going in and out of the gate - not staying safe on the inside of pasture, but taking up the call to follow Him in laying down our lives for a cause that he has called us to.” - @janicechinchern Janice continued our Lent series with a sharing on Jesus' saying: I am the gate. While we go through many different paths to find fulfilment and purpose, we discover that there is no other way to deliverance from sin, disordered desires and salvation but through Jesus. As the gate, He protects, saves and restores us. Yet, the invitation isn't just to experience Jesus for ourselves but to follow in His footsteps and be a gate that others may come to know Him. As we reflect on the word, may we rediscover Jesus as our gate that we may rest and live secure in Him. At the same time, pray into how we may serve others around us just as Jesus did.

“To our struggle with emptiness, evil and existential longing, Jesus says. “I am the Light”, the fulfilment of God's presence, righteousness and salvation for you.” - @timothyshaun Tim continued our Lent series on the seven “I Am”s of Jesus, with a sharing from John 8, where Jesus makes Himself known as the Light of the World. Have we tried to fight the darkness in our lives with artificial light instead of following and pursuing the ultimate light - Jesus Himself? Yet, nothing can guide us out of spiritual darkness but Jesus who has come to lead and save us from our sins. May our response be to receive, walk in and share the Light of Christ in our lives, and know Him as He desires to be known.

“Jesus came to change our desires at the core so that He becomes the main one, the central desire.” - @pehhan82 Kicking off the Lenten sermon series ‘The Seven ‘I am's' Of Jesus', Ps. Peh Han taught from John 6:26-35, where Jesus declared Himself to be the bread of life. He promised that those who put their faith in Him would never hunger and would receive eternal life. The miraculous act of Jesus feeding the multitude with just five loaves and two fish was intended to reveal His divine nature, inviting people to place their faith in Him as the provider of eternal treasures, far beyond the fleeting satisfactions of this world. It reminds us that when we focus on temporary things, we lose sight of what truly matters. God knows our needs and will provide, though not always in the way we expect. Jesus came to redirect our desires, urging us to focus on the eternal, making Him the central and lasting desire of our hearts. Let's reflect on Jesus as the Bread of Life, and examine areas where we may be focused on the temporary and shift our focus to what is eternal. May we trust in God's provision, even when it doesn't align with our expectations, and let this deepen our desire for Jesus and setting our hearts on the eternal treasures He provides.

“We can't step into God's promise while still holding onto the idols of yesterday.” - @andrejosiah In the final week of our Vision Series, Ps. Andre spoke on his vision to see our church become a people who refuses to settle. Speaking from the life of Terah, we learnt that there are a couple of factors why we settle in our faith - out of familiarity, out of grief or loss, or out of fear. When we allow these things to have a hold on us, they hold us back from stepping fully into what God has in store for us. Are there any areas in your life where you have settled, thus preventing you from taking that step of faith to fully obey God's call? We pray that God will grant us the courage to submit those areas to Him, and refuse to settle for anything less than all of Him.

“The world will not be impressed by a church that mirrors society's divisions, but it will be astonished by a church where people who have nothing in common except Jesus — love one another as family.” - @andrejosiah In week 2 of our Vision Series, Ps. Andre shared his heart for The City to have a missional unity which transcends personal preference, affinity, and cultural similarities, and binds the church together for the shared purpose of advancing the gospel. He talked about how missional unity can be expressed through being a category-defying community, one that guards against division, and captures a shared mission. In a world that teaches us to narrow our circle - to align ourselves with people who think like us, act like us, live like us and benefit us, may we be the church that does the opposite: widen the circle to welcome those whom the world would never put together.

“To fall in God's kingdom is to be about good deeds without great love. It is giving up the better part.” – @andrejosiah Pst Andre kicked off our Vision Series today with a message on Fending Off Lukewarmness. Sharing from the story of the church of Ephesus that started with passionate love for Jesus but eventually settled for routine faithfulness, it was a stark reminder of how easily we too can lose our zeal and fall into compromise. Jesus shows us the way back—by remembering what we've lost, repenting from the seriousness of sin, and returning to the works of first love. Let's rededicate ourselves to a rhythm of renewal, and rediscover a desire for God's love and life to fill our lives and community.

It's time to get serious.” - @timothyshaun Following Andrew's message on our priestly calling, Timothy encouraged us to follow Jesus seriously in 2025. We know that we are to live with our reward being joy and communion with God, and spend our lives for God's dreams and His kingdom. But in trying to live out these goals, we realise that our hearts are prone to wander because the desires of our hearts are at war with each other, distracting us from pursuing God's kingdom wholeheartedly. Let's stop to ask ourselves where our desires are leading us to - the desires of the flesh, or Jesus and His kingdom? As we commit to lay down the desires of our flesh, Jesus reassures us that we will receive our reward, though sometimes not in the way or at a time we may expect. So how should we live in this tension and position where we are to hold on to the desires that God has given us, yet be open-handed with how and when they come into fruition? Timothy encourages us to go deeper inward, by sitting with our wants and allow the Holy Spirit to show us how order our true desires. He also mentioned how we could reach further outward; where seeking first the kingdom looks like being on the mission of God.