Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Change is possible only when reality is accepted
In the past two years, I have been given a senior citizen’s discount on coffee at McDonald's – on three different occasions. Just a few weeks ago, I pulled my hamstring while running a little faster than usual. Recently, while dining at a sushi restaurant with some New Life members, I asked a waitress how old I looked. She said that I looked about 55 years old. I couldn't believe what she said. When I asked her the same question again, she said that I looked between 50 and 60 years old. She wouldn't go below 50 years in guessing my age.
The truth is I am ...
God Is Answering Our Prayers
I participated in the bi-annual House Church Conference for Pastors in Louisville, KY from Monday to Thursday this past week. There were about 130 pastors, pastors' wives and a few missionaries. This was my sixth conference and the highlight of the conference for me was hearing the five speakers presenting their case studies about house church ministry in their church context. The sharing is always filled with joys and pains, successes and struggles, discouraging setbacks and encouraging changes which cause all the participants to laugh and shed tears at the same ...
Extreme Makeover from the Inside Out
Everyone knows "Extreme Makeover." It's about a rich person helping a poor family that is going through a very tough time by building them an extremely fancy house. The show was quite sensational because there were tear jerking stories, exciting demolitions, fun-filled vacations and thrilling surprises in the end. However, I have always wondered how those families with their brand new homes are doing after three, five or ten years. Assuming that the houses are completely paid for, are the families able to pay their taxes and utilities, which must have gone up ...
A Letter from Roca Blanca
As you know, Roca Blanca is a very special place for me because that was the first place that I went to for a mission trip with some members from the KSC in the spring of 1995 and then with the youth group members in the summer of the same year. Ever since then, I used to go there every year for the next several years.
Mission trips to Roca Blanca were always hard because we went to tough and difficult places without much civilization. However, one of the joys and blessings of going down there for me was to work with Laura Pratt who is a missionary nurse who has ...
3G and SRM Are Everyone’s Ministries!
It is very easy for pastors to discriminate church members based on their educational, professional or socioeconomic status. James warns us about this.
"My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, 'Here is a good seat for you,' but say to the poor man, 'You stand there' or 'Sit on the floor by my feet,' have you not discriminated ...
Pastor Jaemo Will Be Moving On
From the Pastor’s Desk (135)
I have three older sisters and one younger brother. In the culture that I grew up, it is customary for the first son to take the major responsibility of taking care of the aging parents. Knowing this, I had approached my parents several times in the past asking them to come down to Houston to live near us. But, each time they responded to me by saying, “You are in full-time ministry, and we don’t know when God will lead you to another place. And when that happens, we will need to uproot ourselves and move ...
Church Discipline on Chris Mystery
From the Pastor’s Desk (134)
Apostle Paul makes a very shocking comment about the members of the Corinthian Church.
“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of ...