Doing Faith with Andrew Kulasingham

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.