Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Pastors and Sexual Sins
A while ago I heard that a well-known Korean-American pastor disappeared when he it was found that he was having an affair. Some guilty pastors simply lie and deny their guilt even when confronted with evidence. To his credit this pastor chose to disappear rather than face his accusers and lie.
When I heard this news I felt mixed emotions. I felt sorry for him, his family and his congregation. On the other hand I felt angry that he shamed God and became a stumbling block to the advancement of the Gospel. Pastors who commit sexual sins are usually not bad people, but men ...
We Heard God’s Voice through Our Family Meeting!
As you all know, we had our family meeting last Sunday at 6:30PM in the trailer house. After having a brief but pleasant ice cream social we dove right into the agenda for the evening which was to hear from The Building Committee (BC) about their recommendation of a design-build firm that will help New Life build our future facilities and to vote on whether or not we will go with the BC's suggestion.
Harold Yi, the BC chairperson, did a great job of presenting the material in a summary form of what the committee has been working on for the past several months. We ...
Accusations Against Our Church Members
There are people in our church who come to house church meetings but not to Sunday worship services. Some do so because they don't want to face certain church members. They claim that our church members cheated them in business dealings or that they didn't return money they had borrowed or other things like these. When I heard these kinds of accusations I was saddened. When the accused were our shepherds or deacons, I got angry.
But I no longer get upset when I hear similar accusations against our members or leaders because I have learned from my experience that it is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...