Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
It’s Time to Build!
Our Building Committee has been meeting diligently the past several months to interact with three design-build firms for the purpose of receiving their master plans and construction cost estimates so they could use them to compare and choose the best one that New Life would work with in building our future facilities. The criteria that the committee has used in selecting the firm are as follows:
1. Will the firm help us build the facilities that are simple and functional yet inspiring?
2. Will the firm help us build the facilities that are not just economical to build ...
Health Itself Is Not Important
The most popular phrase among Koreans these days is "well-being". Every magazine is filled with articles about well-being. When I was young, Korea was so poor that the primary concern was simply survival. Now Korea has become so prosperous that mere living is not enough; well-being has become important.
Well-being is an eclectic word. But for most people it seems to mean a physically healthy life. Most articles on this issue deal with physical health.
Sometimes I wonder why people are so crazy about health. I saw an interview on TV with a bodybuilding champion, and the ...
Suffering for Jesus, Sabbatical Year and “234 Prayer” for 2005
It's been more than 10 years since I came to Seoul Baptist Church and exactly seven and a half years since we began New Life Fellowship. Times have passed by very quickly. I will be 41 years old this June and I sense that our time on this earth is short and fleeting. James 4: 14 comes to my mind often these days.
"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." (James 4: 14)
Since our earthly life is brief and momentary I feel more compelled to live my life in such a way that ...
Do We Love Each Other, Or Hate Each Other?
A major contributing factor to the recently increased divorce rate is cited as personality differences. One way to test personality is the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI). I took the test in seminary. A very readable and helpful book, called "Do We Love Each Other, Or Hate Each Other?" takes the personality types categorized by this test and looks at their relation to marital conflicts - what causes and them and the remedies for them.
The MBTI lists measures personality in four areas. They are Introversion vs. Extroversion, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, ...
Two Things I Dislike
I dislike two things: seeing people dozing during the sermon and seeing people enter the sanctuary after the service has started.
There are two reasons why I dislike it when people sleep during the sermon. First, I feel like they're sending me a message that my sermon is so boring that they can't remain awake. The truth may be that they're just physically too tired, but that's the impression I get. Second, it makes them look lazy. When someone sleeps while the people around them are awake and working, they seem lazy. So when someone sleeps during the sermon while others ...
Church Members’ Faces
At our Wednesday evening prayer services, house churches take turns giving presentations. This includes the testimony of one of their members. At a recent service, one of our newer church members mentioned an incident involving me at the end of his testimony.
He was taking our introductory Bible class, The New Life, and was in charge of the class roll call. Class members drop their name tags into a box at the end of class and he checked attendance by looking at the box. One day, there was a slip up and the name tags of those who came to class that day were mixed up with ...
Church Facility Usage Fees
It's great to see our church facilities including our gym being used for many weddings these days. At first, we had a difficult time imagining and thinking of having our wedding receptions in the gym. The basketball nets, the scoreboard and the absence of a dance floor were all unappealing to us as a reception hall. So, several years ago when I suggested to New Life the idea of having their wedding receptions in the gym, it was not well received. I think Martha Stewart, who took weddings and receptions to the next level of extravagance and immaculateness, had a lot to ...