Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Glorifying God Through Success
I write my Pastor's Corners in advance. When I get an idea, I write a Corner based on it, and each week I choose one from the set of Corners I have written. I currently have 40 Corners written. The following is one of the oldest ones. The events described occurred a long time ago but the message is still relevant.
Someone recently posted an interview with Jin Soo Lee that appeared in a Korean journal. He served as a Shepherd at our church before he went to Korea to become the hospital director of the Korean National Cancer Research Center. The interviewer marveled at his ...
Traveling Again
As the House Church movement spreads, I can't avoid traveling frequently and for long periods of time. It's become my custom to take two weeks-long trips in the spring and fall. I think this is better than taking several short trips.
I am able to take these long trips because Pastor Lee can take my place when I am absent. He is so good in filling my shoes that our members don't feel any difference when I am home or away. In fact, some young members enjoy Pastor Lee's sermons so much so that they look forward to when I am gone.
This is a critical time for the House Church ...
Christians Must Become Ladies And Gentlemen
What would it look like if every Christian lived according to the Bible? I think that all women would become "ladies" and all men would become "gentlemen". True ladies are warm, considerate, accepting, and encouraging - possessors of fruit of the Spirit. True gentlemen are kind, responsible, humorous, and willing to die for the women they love - possessors of the Spirit.
I think that it is not a coincidence that chivalry was born in Christian Europe and that gentlemanship developed in England when Christianity was at its peak. Their spirit came from the Bible.
Many ...
Spiritual Appetite
What is flowing through your soul, living water or natural sewage? What is most alive deep within you? To my amazement, I see many believers having achieved their career success, financial stability, and a loving family but still feel empty and disappointed with what they have accomplished.
I believe the awareness of emptiness comes from the realization of losing the spiritual appetite along the way. In reality, what we want to accomplish for the kingdom of God is easily lost by what we want to possess and not by what needs to possess us.
My children are already counting ...
Introducing Pastor Baik
We have a special guest this week: Dong-Jin Baik, Children's Pastor at Global Village (Ji-Gu-Chon) Church in Washington D.C.
As you know, our current Children's Pastor, Mrs. Seo, wants to take an early retirement and become a foreign missionary. She wanted to go last year, but her planned successor abruptly decided to leave our church. So she postponed her retirement and we have been praying for a replacement. God seems to have answered our prayer.
A while ago, Pastor Baik came to our church as a guest speaker for our children's department volunteers. People were ...
Going Through Proper Channels
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. ...
Bored With A Pastor
Churches that people look up to as model churches have one thing in common: their senior pastors have been with them for over 20 years. That's not surprising. It takes 2 to 3 years for church members to get to know a new pastor, 5 to 7 more years to become ministry partners with him, and another 10 to 20 years for particular ministry philosophies to take root.
Stagnant churches also have something in common; their pastors have a short tenure. Southern Baptist churches are typically small and their pastors' tenure averages 2 to 3 years, according to one study.
I don't ...