Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Don’t Ask For Prayer Casually
When people say, "Please pray for me," sometimes I'm not sure what to do with this prayer request. Many people, perhaps most of them, make this kind of prayer request without sincerity.
We occassionally have guests from Korea stay with us, and when they leave, they frequently tell us to call them when we visit Korea. But if you do get the chance to visit Korea and actually do call them, you often find that they're too busy to meet you. You realize that they said to call out of courtesy; they didn't mean for you to take the remark seriously. Similarly, when people ask me ...
Idle Hands
Finally! After another long school year, summer has finally arrived! FREEDOM! Believe me, I know you how you feel. Remember, I just finished a long school year myself. Now that summer is here, a lot of you have a whole bunch of extra time on your hands. If you’re lucky enough, your family will be using the summer months to vacation and do all kinds of fun stuff together. But a lot of you simply have a lot more time on your hands with not that much to do. That can be a dangerous thing – a VERY dangerous thing.
The Bible teaches us that idle hands can wreck our ...
A Bittersweet Day
Seniors, today is the last day that you will be joining us for youth worship services. In previous years, you would have stayed with the youth group even after your high school graduations, but I’ve decided that it’s more important for you all to move on and join the adult congregation as soon as possible. After all, once you’ve graduated from high school, you are no longer considered youth anymore! That makes today a truly bittersweet day for me.
The bitter part first. Having just started a year ago, and being a full-time student myself, I didn’t have a ...
The Impossible Happened
The day I returned from my recent 5 week trip, I received a phone call from a woman who introduced herself as the wife of my high-school classmate. She said that her husband was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. He was immediately flown to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center for treatment, but before his treatment even began, his vital organs stopped functioning and he fell into a coma. He was now on life support, and the doctors advised her to remove it, because there was no hope of recovery.
The next day, I visited my friend in the ICU. I had not seen him in more than ...
Please Pray for My Wife
A couple of weeks ago after coming back from her annual physical check up, my wife shared with me that Linda Kim, her ObGyn, told her there is a big cyst in one of her ovaries. I didn’t think much of it then because Lynette didn’t sound too serious about it either. But this past Sunday I was approached by Linda and was told that the cyst is rather large (15cm x 10cm x 10cm), it is complex and it could be one of three things: endometrioma, or a mass that is benign or malignant. Regardless of what it is, it needs to be removed. I felt numb as I was listening to her ...
Opposition To The House Church Movement
It has been 10 years since we offered the first house church seminar for pastors. The house church movement is spreading rapidly, and has now started to experience opposition, especially in Korea.
The anti-house church sentiment is strongest among conservative Presbyterian churches in Korea. Some church leaders oppose it because they think that the house church system belongs to Baptists churches. Other leaders oppose the house churches as being a congregational system, which is contrary to the Presbyterian system of elders. Lively discussions are being carried out on ...
A R I S E
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.” Isaiah 60:1
Are you thriving or spiritually stagnant? Does the fresh water seem to flow through you or has it stopped flowing? When you see the person in the mirror, do you see overflowing joy or see emptiness of joy? Often, routines of life can become very dry even in comfort. Here, we seek to find something that will stir up the stagnant soul and awaken us to a greater dream.
Something from within us desires to experience our full potential and full capacity to a wonder that would ...