We finished the series of sermon on Ten Commandments last week. As we started this series on the second week of February, it took exactly 6 months to finish this series. But because I did not deliver sermons on the first week of every month, there were total of 18 sermons on this series. I thought about delivering two sermons on the last commandment and finish with a summary sermon to end on the last week of August, but it seemed like it was taking too long so I finished this series last week. In reality, Ten Commandments are not easy topics to be used as the summon topics in our church. Without exception, our members are very passionate about ...

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In the past, some first generation immigrants believed that it was okay for their children to forget Korean language; it was thought to be necessary for the childrentosuccessfully assimilate into the mainstream American society. Consequently, most second-generation immigrants from that time could not speak Korean. It seems to change now. A lot of people argue that speaking Korean fluently can be an important asset no matter where one lives; I agree to this opinion. The American Ambassador to Korea, Sung Kim (Korean name: Sung Young Kim), speaks Korean almost perfectly. Of course he finished elementary school in Korea before he immigrated to the ...

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I went to Austin the other day to help my daughter move out (she is graduating soon). It was possible because I can now prepare Sunday sermons with considerable ease(before I couldn’t have thought it possible at all to go somewhere on Thursday and come back on Friday when I had to preach on Sunday). I don’t like to drive long distance, but I was driving to Austin to help my child when I have so many things to do myself. I thought that it was so true that parental love is one-way: downward toward their children. Parents are very sensitive to their children’s needs, but like my daughter, I must have just accepted my parents’ love without much ...

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I hear that even now there are persons in our church asking to borrow money from other members. I know that this is a church principle that everyone should know, but I want to repeat once more. I request that we should stop borrowing or loaning money between House Church family members or among church members. This is because when there is a problem paying back the loan in time, the relationship between members will be broken. Even if you had a great relationship before, but if one side was to borrow money and do not pay back in time, there will be problems that will arise between members including; being disappointed on the lending party, ...

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People have two opposite tendencies to approach the outside world. First, the intellectual approach is to analyze and systematize the available information with language.The other is the emotional and intuitive approach, which feels and imagines information, rather than observes and analyzes it. We must have two tendencies in harmony in our lives. In other words, we definitely need to endeavor to objectively think and analyze things. Having said that, sometimes we need to accept things in a more simple and intuitive way. The reason is that two approaches do not necessarily operate positively. For example, when we watch the sunset, we should accept ...

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We all have felt that our cafeteria is getting too small for us. We all come earlier on Sundays to find enough space for our house church members to sit together after Sunday services. Right now, it is much better because lots of us are visiting Korea during vacation. But I heard that some unpleasant remarks are exchanged over the tables when more then 600 members attend the first service. It is also regrettable toask people to leave early so that others coming for the second service can have enough parking spaces. To solve this problem, we plan to renovate our cafeteria. We will utilize the space between the cafeteria and the kid’s ministry ...

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It has been almost 2 years since Pastor Young-Gi Chai has retired and left for Korea. He originally indicated that he will be away for about a year for the church to be settled down, but he ended up staying in Korea for much longer as there was a lot of work to be done for House Church Ministries in Korea. His presence in Korea may be necessary from time to time in the future due to the fact that he is still the president of House Church Ministries. But he has decided to publicly attend Seoul Church of Houston starting July of this year. Pastor Chai thought that it maybe better for him to even not come back to us when he saw that our church has ...

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