The Resolution Above All Resolutions (1/6/19 New Year’s Sunday Message) ATTN: Someone has said, “You live the first half of life forming habits and the second half living off it.” I think that’s largely true. I’m in the second half of my life and I don’t really make new year’s resolutions anymore. Partly because I’ve […]
God Became Low (Advent Message 12/23/18) ATTN: When Prince George Alexander Louis was born on july 22, 2013, to Prince Willam and Kate Middleton, The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, wearing full dress uniform, rode past Buckingham Palace to Green Park where they staged a 41-gun royal salute. 71 horses pulled six First World War-era […]
The meaning of Christmas #2: God dearly (x3) loves us ATTN: I want you to reach back into your past and think about when you felt the most loved. When did you feel most loved? Was it when you were growing up, what your mom or dad did for you? Was it when you received […]
Dan in the Den (Family Service) ATTN: I want you to imagine getting love letters (FB, Instagram messages) from an admirer. However, although you like the attention you are getting, you are not into him/her. Later on though, you fall head-over-heels in love with someone else. He’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to you. […]
Why God Delays (12/2/18 John #46) ATTN: In human relationships, knowing someone’s way is important. When Janet and I first married, we clashed because of the way we handled or did things were different. For example, the way we cut fruits is different. When I cut an apple, I cut around the world, making the […]
Are we hearing the voice of the Shepherd? Intro: The challenge to what I see and hear…. Exodus 16:14-And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one […]
Did God Cause the Fire in Southern California? (11/18/18 John #44) ATTN: I’ll confess. When I first heard about the Southern California fire that engulfed million dollar celebrity homes, I thought of God judging Sodom and Gomorrah. I watched the footages of these houses and cars burning and I thought, that’s what Lot must have […]
The Gospel in Jonah (11/11/18 Stand alone Family Service) ATTN: The very first time I heard the story of Jonah, a large fish swallowing a man, I was child attending a Vacation Bible School in Korea. I believed the story then. A kid will believe anything especially if he’s told that it’s in the Bible. […]
The Lasting Freedom (11/4/18 John #43) ATTN: When I was in elementary school, my mother used to say to me, “I would give anything to be your age again because you are so free!” But in my mind I disagreed. I have to go to school everyday and then I have to do homework afterwards. […]
A place to abide securely- Eldie (10/28/18) Introduction: Recap: following the Light & submitting to authority John 8:28–So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority,but speakjust as the Father taught me. –In […]