Scripture-first sermons for patient discipleship.
Five Stones Church's Podcast is a sermon feed shaped by Bible reading, prayer, and steady pastoral explanation. Recent messages move through the parables of Jesus, Easter faith, Genesis, communion, grief, cancer, forgiveness, and the practical life of the church.
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Five Stones Church's Podcast presents sermon teaching from Five Stones Church with a Scripture-first, prayerful shape. It is not casual conversation. The core rhythm is pulpit teaching: a passage is read, a question is raised, and the speaker circles through explanation, illustration, and application until the text lands in everyday discipleship. Recent episodes spend substantial time in the parables of Jesus. The Good Samaritan becomes a teaching on hearing truth with an open heart. The lost sheep and lost coin are framed around the Gospel message of the kingdom of God. The two debtors leads into sin, forgiveness, love, and communion. The mustard seed and yeast become images of small beginnings, kingdom growth, transformation, and warning. The parable of the weeds brings out patience, mercy, evil, counterfeit righteousness, and the call to sow good seed rather than write people off. Easter Sunday widens the focus to the resurrection, using the different meanings of seeing in John as a way to trace movement from noticing facts to understanding and belief. Prayer is a recurring center of gravity. One message on persistent prayer is unusually candid about prayers that appear unanswered, including cancer, death, and the ache of continuing to trust God's goodness. Another episode pauses before Genesis teaching to pray corporately for Eileen and her cancer diagnosis. The show often ties doctrine to the life of a specific congregation, including Lent, Palm Sunday, communion, family strain, grief, and shared worship. Its teaching style is warm but serious. It can be repetitive, yet that repetition functions like sermon emphasis rather than filler. Listeners looking for compact devotional reflections may find it slow. Listeners who want full-length church preaching, biblical cross-reference, and pastoral application will find a clear fit.
Made for: This feed is for Christians who want full sermon teaching rooted in Bible passages, prayer, and church life. It especially suits listeners drawn to parables, resurrection theology, pastoral application, and reflective preaching.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the combination of careful biblical explanation and openly pastoral moments around grief, illness, unanswered prayer, repentance, and mercy. The messages feel like congregational teaching rather than studio-produced religious commentary.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical teaching meets pastoral candor, connecting scripture to unanswered prayer, reconciliation, repentance, and life in a worshipping community.
Five Stones Church's Podcast lets a biblical passage set the pace, moving from close explanation toward prayer and lived response. Sermons from Pastor Jon Wong and Elder Tricia Chen treat scripture as something to reason through and act upon, with parables, Genesis, Pentecost,…
An unanswered prayer stays unanswered here, if you need faith that can bear the question.
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A sermon on persistent prayer that faces unanswered grief with seriousness and restraint.
Tricia Chen shapes this sermon around persistent prayer, beginning with a student in China who came to her in tears, afraid she was going deaf, and moving from there to Jesus' call to keep asking and knocking.
A Palm Sunday sermon uses Jesus' two debtors to examine forgiveness, self-righteousness, and love.
Palm Sunday frames a sermon on the debt of sin and the gratitude that follows forgiveness. Eugene, an elder at Five Stones Church, starts with Zechariah 9-9 and the crowd's Hosannas before turning to Jesus' parable of two debtors: the woman owing 500 denarii and Simon the…
Matthew 13 becomes a steady warning about subtle harm, isolation, and the call to keep sowing good seed.
The sermon stays close to Matthew 13 and the parable of the weeds, using the opening prayer to set a tone of humility, openness, and ready soil.
A folded burial cloth leads from noticing Jesus to recognizing the risen Christ.
Easter Sunday becomes a sermon about how people come to recognize resurrection. It opens with a weather stone, then moves to the empty tomb and the folded cloth over Jesus' face, reading that detail as a clue that the missing body means more than theft or confusion.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Elder Eugene concludes a year-long study of Genesis by examining chapters 48-50, focusing on Jacob's blessings to his sons and Joseph's forgiveness, to reveal God's redemptive plan.
Pastor Jon Wong concludes a sermon series on Genesis by focusing on Genesis 22 to explore themes of faith, obedience, and trusting God through Abraham's story.
Pastor Jon Wong delivers an Easter Sunday sermon at Five Stones Church, focusing on the resurrection story from John 20.
Tricia opens with prayer and a story about a student in China who came to her house in tears because she feared she was going deaf.
Five Stones Church's Easter sermon opens with a weather-stone joke and says the empty tomb is the sign that Jesus is alive.
Five Stones Church elder Eugene Wat teaches Luke 7:36-50 on Palm Sunday, tying the sermon to Liz's reading of Zechariah 9:9 and the crowd's "Hosanna" response.
Pastor John explains a schedule change due to personal circumstances and introduces the sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan as part of a series on Jesus' parables.
This episode explores the parables of Jesus, focusing on the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin, as part of a series examining how these stories reveal the Gospel message of the Kingdom of God.
The speaker opens with prayer and turns to Matthew 13:24-30, where Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
This episode begins with Pastor Jon Wong addressing the church community, sharing about spring break challenges and leading a corporate prayer for a member named Eileen who is battling cancer.
Pastor Andrew Chan introduces Genesis chapter 12, comparing its opening to the TV show Law and Order and reading verses 1-3 about God's call and promise to Abram.
This sermon introduces Genesis chapters 10-11, focusing on the Tower of Babel as a turning point from primeval to ancestral history in the Bible.