In just two months from today, we will celebrate the completion of “To Gain More.” For those of you who have become members of New Life within the past three years, “To Gain More” is our building project that we kicked off exactly three years ago while we were worshipping in the Korean Speaking Congregation’s (KSC) gymnasium. Before the gym, we first worshipped in their old youth chapel, and then we moved into their old trailer house which, since then, has been remodeled and is being used as a children’s game room. It was while we were borrowing the gym from the KSC and worshipping there that God clearly called us to build a place of ...

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God’s work can’t be done by one individual. It must be done together as a team called church. In any church, there are leaders and followers who are established and given by God to serve one another to fulfill God’s kingdom work. Leaders serve followers by leading them and followers serve leaders by following them. This is how leaders and followers are to serve one another. If leaders don’t lead and followers don’t follow, God’s work will not get done. Who, then, are the leaders? A leader is someone who influences others to pursue after the ultimate good. And God is our ultimate good, the ultimate treasure. Therefore, a leader is ...

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Dear NLF, Psalm 150:6 proclaims, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” I have had the upmost honor and privilege of living out this Scripture by serving on the praise team for the past five years. And I have served, for the past four years, as the Magnification team leader alongside great men of faith, humility, integrity, character, and love for NLF. It truly has been a tremendous blessing in my life as I’ve served alongside dedicated and faithful servant-leaders on the Magnification team. Everyone serving on the team treasures the opportunity we have to lead our fellow NLF brothers and sisters into a time of ...

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In the past two Sundays someone turned in his/her communication card anonymously with the same message to the staff. The content of the person’s message was about his/her description of what he/she thinks he/she is hearing from Sunday messages and his/her desire to hear different kinds of messages. When I received the card the first time, I was a bit puzzled and wondered who the person might be. However, when I received the card for the second time in a row, I began to worry about the person’s state of mind and his/her spiritual condition. First of all, when we write things anonymously that are not positive or uplifting to others, it shows ...

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Our God is a God of order not disorder. Everything He has created is orderly and structured. We see this in nature. After a long dreary winter we can count on a warm spring coming because God made it that way. When the night is over the sun will rise and the morning will come because God designed it that way. Our God brings order out of chaos. We also see this in our personal life. Before we received Jesus into our lives as our Master and King and became His followers, our life was a mess. We didn’t know what to live for. We didn’t have healthy relationships. We didn’t know how to use our time and money properly. We did whatever we ...

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A typical church generally has about 5-10% of its members who are committed to world missions. They are the ones who pray regularly for missionaries and recruit others to get involved in missions work. Unfortunately they are also often seen as an “elite” group, more “mature and concerned about the Great Commission,” and the rest of the congregation as not quite living out their call and obeying Christ’s last command. Happily, this is not the case with us. At the present moment, New Life is made up of 35 house churches and all of them, except one that has just recently multiplied, are named after a mission field and are supporting a ...

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Acquiring and applying the basic fundamentals are essential in life if we are to succeed in anything. If we want to be a successful professional golfer, we must be committed to the basic fundamentals. If we want to be a successful musician, we must be faithful to the basics. If we want to be a successful business person, we can’t deviate from the basic fundamentals. The same is true for Christ followers. If we want to be successful Christ followers who bear much fruit and experience joy and fulfillment in our walk with Christ we must be committed to the basics. There is no other way. The basic fundamentals for Christ followers are called ...

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