Community Church HK Podcast

Summer Storytime: Ruth

This week, we will be hearing from guest speaker Kwen Ip who will be sharing about Ruth and the concept of "hesed". We will continue our journey through our series, Summer Storytime, as we learn the character of God from Ruth. As we approach Sunday, let us meditate on Ruth 1:16a, where Ruth declares, "Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Ruth 1:16-17 //But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.

Summer Storytime: No Longer Slaves

This Sunday, Joe Kwan continues the Summer Storytime series and shares a message on freedom as well as how we are no longer slaves as Christ followers. While we prepare our hearts for Sunday, let us reflect on how the Israelites were grumbling in Numbers 14:3 with the words, "Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword?"
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================This Week's Scripture:// Numbers 13:30-14:4 //Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”

Summer Storytime: Outrageous Mercy, Amazing Grace!

This Sunday, Pastor Brenda kicks off our new summer series with a message on the outrageous mercy and amazing grace of God. This summer series will see messages from different guest speakers, each sharing about an aspect of our Christian walk. As we prepare our hearts for this Sunday, let us reflect on Revelations 21:1, which reads, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Genesis 6:1-14 //Now it came about, when mankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. So the Lord was sorry that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Then the Lord said, “I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for humanity had corrupted its way upon the earth.
Then God said to Noah, “The end of humanity has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of people; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 

Awe & Wonder

This Sunday, we willl hear from Pastor Wade on cultivating awe and wonder in our lives, especially throughout this summer time. As we look forward to Sunday, may we take a moment to reflect on Psalm 65:8, which says, "The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Psalm 65:8 //The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy.

Why We Forget God Is Like Jesus

We will be blessed this Sunday by a message from Steve Hackman, who will speak on why we, as Christians, tend to forget that God is like Jesus and how that impacts our faith. As we look to Sunday, let us take a moment to reflect on Galatians 4:6, which reminds us that, "because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'"
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================This Week's Scripture:// Galatians 4:4–7 //But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir through God.

Heaven & Hell (and everything in between): Recap & Questions

This Sunday marks the conclusion of our "Heaven & Hell (and everything in between)"  series as Pastor Wade wraps it all up with a recap and responses to questions from the community. As we look forward to this Sunday, let us take a moment to remember John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
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================This Week's Scripture:// John 3:16 //For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Heaven & Hell (and everything in between): Once Saved, Always Saved?

This Sunday, Pastor Wade will dive deep into the teaching of salvation as we begin to wrap up our series "Heaven & Hell (and everything in between)". How we understand salvation is important to how we live our lives and what we believe our purposes are. Thus, as we look forward to the service, let us reflect on the conviction in Matthew 12:37, which says, "For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Matthew 12:35-37 //A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.

Heaven & Hell (and everything in between): Upside Down Kingdom

This week, after the long weekend, Pastor Wade teaches on God's upside down kingdom as we extend the "Heaven & Hell (and everything in between)" series. Through the service, we will tackle the issue of what "hell" is scripturally. Looking forward, let us reflect on Luke 16:31, which teaches this profound wisdom that: "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Luke 16:19-31 //There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, "Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire."
But Abraham replied, "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us."
He answered, "Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment."
Abraham replied, "They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them."
"No, father Abraham," he said, "but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent."
He said to him, "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead."

Heaven & Hell (and everything in between): The Mission of the Church

This Sunday, Pastor Wade will teach on the mission of the church as we follow along our "Heaven & Hell (and everything in between)" series. Through the service, we will see that we are called to be witnesses and understand to what we are witnesses to. Looking forward, let us meditate on 2 Corinthians 5:17, which declares, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"
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================This Week's Scripture:// 1 Corinthians 15:58 //Therefore, my beloved,[n] be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Heaven & Hell (and everything in between): Judgment & Hell

This week, Pastor Wade looks into the topic of hell and judgment as we continue our "Heaven & Hell (and everything in between)" series. We will discover why judgment is necessary and what hell actually is according to the Bible. As we look forward to this, let us reflect on Colossians 1:20a, which reveals, "Through [Christ] God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things…"
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================This Week's Scripture:// Colossians 1:19-20 //For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.