Author: Enoch Chee

Letters to the Corinthians – March 9, 2025

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

There are all kinds of weird and creative ways we can spend money.

But today I want to talk about what might be the single best use of money in the whole world. I want to talk about the idea of charity.

Now just to be clear, I am not asking you to give money to the church. And I’m also not saying that anyone has to give to charity. Because our Bible passage today is about voluntary giving to a charity far away. So I hope you don’t feel pressured to give today because that is not my intent.

But my big question today is: Why would a person want to give away as much money as they can?

My answer is, if we do charity well, we are the first to benefit, and we are the second to benefit. And I’ll show you what I mean as we go through our Bible passage.

Letters to the Corinthians – February 9, 2025

1 Corinthians 7:26-31

All of us have choices to make. We have choices in our love life. We have choices for our schooling and our career. We have choices for our friendship and our free time and our family life. Our choices will determine the direction of our lives.

So my big question today is: How can we make better life choices?

The answer I want to show you today is: we need to think like soldiers.

Because, just like soldiers:

  1. We need to remember the mission, and
  2. We need to accept our limits

My task today is to show you these ideas from the Bible, so you can build your life directly on God’s word.

The Book of Joshua – January 12, 2025

Joshua 3-4

I understand a lot of us are going through some really hard times. I definitely don’t want to minimize the trouble that we go through. Mental health is no joke, and relationship problems can be really tough. School and finances can be oppressive. And sometimes the best we can do is just make it through another day.

But once in a while when we’re not so overwhelmed, it really helps to take a step back and think about the big picture.

And it’s worth asking, how can we live our best life? That’s my big question today. How can we live our best life?

My big idea today is that we need EXPERIENCE and we need to ENRICH.

  1. We need to EXPERIENCE the greatness of God
  2. We need to ENRICH the lives of others by sharing our experiences.

Christmas – December 15, 2024

Luke 1:67-79

We all encounter evil in our lives. We can see all kinds of things in our world that are broken. We can see the brokenness in governments and in world politics. We can see it in schools and workplaces. We see it in close friendships and family, and we can even see it in our own hearts. Our world is not the way it should be.

Some people see so much brokenness that they just give up and they say there’s no point in trying because they can’t fix the problems. But as Christians I believe we have the best way to respond to brokenness.

So my big question today is: how should we respond to brokenness – the brokenness we see in the world and also in our personal life?

The answer I want to show you today is that we should respond with confidence that Jesus will make things right. Jesus will make things right in our world, and Jesus will make things right in our own personal life.

The Sermon on the Mount – November 3, 2024

Matthew 5:14-16; Matthew 6:1

I think it’s understandable that a lot of people hate work. And they dream of a day when they can leave their work behind and just do whatever they feel like. But I believe we’re not meant to wish away our working hours. I believe that the ordinary work that we all do can be incredibly meaningful and rewarding.

So, my big question today is: how can we get the most out of our work? The answer I want to show you today is, we can turn work into worship. Sometimes our worship needs to be public, and sometimes our worship needs to be private. But all work is about worship. And my task today is to show you these ideas from two Bible passages in the Sermon on the Mount, so that you can build your life directly on God’s words.

Moses: Living By Faith – October 13, 2024

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Numbers 20:1-12

For many of us, life feels like one problem after another, and one obstacle after another. And we all go through challenging times.

So, my big question today is, how should we respond to the challenges of life? Our Bible story today teaches us two things. First we need to mind our stress level, and second, we need to mind the big picture.

Our Bible story comes from The Book of Numbers, Chapter 20. It’s about a time when Moses faced one of the most difficult personal challenges of his life.

Discipleship: 1st & 2nd Thessalonians – September 8, 2024

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

Today we’ll be learning from one of the greatest Christians in history. His name was Paul. And we’ll learn two things from a prayer that he prayed.

We’ll learn that:

  1. We should pray for power
  2. We should pray for glory

More specifically, we should pray for power to be what God wants us to be. And we should pray for glory – to God – because as that turns out, that’s the greatest thing for us.

Discipleship: 1st & 2nd Thessalonians – August 11, 2024

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

We begin a new series on the books of 1st and 2nd Thessalonians in the New Testament.

My big question today is: How can we know that we are on the right track spiritually?

The good news is, we can know. I’ll tell you my answer, and after that, I’ll spend the rest of my time showing you the answer from the Bible, because it’s important that you see it from the Bible. Pastors will fail you, but God’s words will not fail you. So it’s important for you to base your life on the Bible and not what pastors say.

That said, here’s my answer. If we want to know that we’re on the right track, we need to look in three places. We need to look INSIDE, we need to look BEHIND, and we need to look AROUND. I’ll explain what I mean.

We need to look INSIDE of us to see if we have courage to live out what we believe.

We need to look BEHIND to the past for evidence that supports what we believe.

And we need to look AROUND us for the approval of mature Christians.

That’s my answer and I’ll spend the rest of my time up here showing you my answer from the Bible.

The Second Epistle of Peter: Back to Basics – July 21, 2024

2 Peter 1:16-21

Life is unpredictable. We might have some clues for what’s coming up next, but there’s no way to know for sure. That’s a challenge for me, because I’m trying to raise my three young kids and I think a lot about the future and the kind of world that my kids will grow up in. It looks like they’re going to grow up in a very different world than the one I grew up in. For sure, my kids will have some advantages. They’ll probably be better adjusted socially than I was, and their technology will be a lot better than what I had. However, my kids will also have more temptations, and a lot of ways to go wrong. With the way things are going, it feels our world is getting more unpredictable than ever.

We start a new series on the 2nd book of Peter in the New Testament. My big question today is: how can we navigate our unpredictable world?

The answer I want to show you today is, we need to follow God’s words in the Bible. We need to follow God’s words because they are TRUE, and we need to follow God’s words because they are WISE. That’s what our Bible passage is about.

Arguing with Jesus – June 2, 2024

Mark 6:30-37

Problems in our work, and problems in our relationships. Problems are everywhere. And problems matter/ Even ordinary problems matter to God, because for a Christian every problem is connected to the stuff of eternity. Everything we do is meant to be part of God’s work, and it’s all meant to be holy. And when we have that mindset, we can experience the presence of God and the power of God even when we’re doing ordinary things.

So my big question today is: how should we respond to problems?

My big idea today is:

1. We should start with faith
2. We should continue with faithfulness.