Recorded Worship Service Videos

Service 21 December 2025

Matthew 1:18-25 While we love the Christmas story, the first Christmas was defined by vulnerability, and fear rather than cozy predictability. Like Mary and Joseph facing a terrifyingly uncertain future, our modern society struggles with anxiety sparked by the recent tragedy and the failure of human predictions. However, the Christmas story reminds us that when we reach our human limits, God intervenes with a foreign and uncontrollable plan. By shifting from our own estimations to God's perspective, we find that uncertainty is not a dead end, but an invitation for God to reveal His transformative will to our tired hearts.

Service 14 December 2025

Matthew 11:2-11 : John the Baptist’s life and ministry prepared the way for Jesus, standing at the threshold of Old and New Testament history. Though faithful, his imprisonment led him to question if Jesus was truly the Messiah. Jesus’ indirect and vague answer challenged John who wanted to clear his doubts. His location of prison cell reveals vulnerability, but it highlights how faith grows from uncertainty and ambiguity. So our own Christian life is not based on our own worth but shaped by somebody’s witness to the Lord. In this dynamic, God’s vague answers can be powerful, reminding us that God’s plan transcends self-sufficiency.

UCA President's Christmas Message 2025

As Christmas comes around, many of us are carrying mixed emotions – moments of joy and moments that feel heavy. This year has stretched us with fires, floods, rising costs, conflicts overseas, and grief that has touched many homes. And into all of this, the Christmas story speaks again: “Do not be afraid. For today, a Saviour is born.”

Moderator's Christmas Message 2025

If the Christmas story has anything to teach us, it's that right in the middle of fear and uncertainty, there were angels' voices saying "Do not be afraid.” At Christmas, we remember — Christ is born. Joy has entered the world. We're not alone. But —knowing that truth and living it out? That takes courage. It's scary, stepping into the unknown.

Service 7 December 2025

Isaiah 11:1-10: Today’s reading brings us to the tension between God's promises and the struggles of human reality. The prophecy in Isaiah 11:1–10, spanning a thousand years, uses the image of a shoot emerging from a stump to show that God's new future breaks out of our failures, not our successes. This means that "today" is a space of God's grace where we experience Jesus Christ, the future Messiah. as a present power that heals our brokenness. The Spirit empowers us to live out God's future promise right now, turning hope from wishful thinking into power that we can overcome our own issues.

Service 30 November 2025 - Larissa Onkonkwo

Sermon by Larissa Okonkwo Acts 10:34-43 & 11:25-26 - A Christian is someone who, though they believe, may at times wrestle with doubt. They are called and chosen by God, fully accepted in His grace, and invited into a personal relationship with Him. A Christian belongs to God’s family, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and seeks to follow Jesus, even if they sometimes stumble or get it wrong.

Service 23 November 2025

Luke 23:33-43: Human beings often understand life through hierarchy, seeing a king as “above” us. Christians confess Jesus as King, yet Luke 23 challenges this framework. Instead of power and glory, Jesus is mocked, humiliated, and crucified, appearing weak and defeated. Soldiers and one criminal saw him as a failure, but another criminal broke his assumptions and asked Jesus to “remember me,” finding true meaning in him. This irony reveals God’s upside-down power, that is strength in weakness, kingship in humility. Like the criminal on his cross who found strength in the Lord, we too discover hope when we trust the servant and suffering King who remembers us.

Service 16 November 2025

Luke 21:5 -19 - We often avoid conflict and cling to familiar systems for comfort and security, but Jesus challenges these frames. In this way, Jesus’ message brings tension, destruction, and disruption. At the same time, it points to renewal: new heavens, new earth, and new life. Jesus confronts us to reshape our understanding. In this line of understanding, Jesus’ death is not a disaster or the end, but a new beginning. As we commission new leaders, we embrace God’s unfolding plan, trusting His wisdom and promise: “Stand firm, you will win life.”

Service 9 November 2025

Luke 20:28-37 - Jesus was challenged by religious leaders who fixated on logic, missing the deeper truth of resurrection and grace. Their narrow thinking reflected a human tendency and limited cultural frame rather than God’s bigger picture. We often let petty concerns cloud our understanding, yet Jesus reminds us that God is the God of the living. Resurrection is not just a future hope, but a present power that enables us to live meaningfully today. When we embrace God’s grace, even small things become a gift to cherish and a chance to experience the sense of eternity in our everyday life.

Service 2 November 2025

Luke 19:1-10 - When Jesus entered Jericho, crowds gathered to see Jesus, But Jesus chose to focus on Zacchaeus who was a latecomer and social outcast. This unexpected attention stirred complaints, revealing the crowd’s tendency to measure fairness by effort and visibility. Zacchaeus, however, stepped beyond shame and climbed a tree to see Jesus, embodying vulnerability and spiritual hunger. His story reminds us that God’s blessing comes not to the crowd, but to the one who commits to God’s mysterious way, despite criticism. This commitment is described as zeal in Bible so that we can have transformation in our journey.