Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Do You Really Want To Get Married?
"I enjoy reading your Pastor's Corner. I appreciate your wisdom and insight. Could you write something about marriage? Such an article would be helpful to many singles like me." Someone, probably a member of NLF, wrote me this note. The request prompted me to write today's corner.
Needless to say, it is not a Christian duty to get married. Jesus never married. Neither did the Apostle Paul. In fact, Paul encourages us to stay single, if possible, because those who are unmarried are able to devote their full time to the service of the Lord (1 Corinthians 7). So don't feel ...
Exciting Speaker
Some time ago I received a call from Sister Shin Shin Kang, one of our shepherds. She told me that the renowned Dr. Kang Young Woo and his wife wanted to have dinner with me and asked if my wife and I would be available. (Sister Shin and Dr. Kang's wife graduated from the same college.) I knew a bit about his life, such as how he overcome his physical handicap of being blind to become the highest ranking Korean American official in the U.S. Federal Government. So we willingly obliged. They say that behind every great man stands a great woman, so I was very interested in ...
Helping Build A Seniors Center
This year's special Thanksgiving offering will be sent to the Korean-American Senior Center for them to use in remodeling. The Seniors Association recently purchased a building. Unfortunately, it could accommodate only 60 to 80 people. They needed the building to hold 200 people so expansion is necessary. The cost is estimated to be $140,000. The center only had $100,000 available. This year's Thanksgiving offering, expected to be between $15,000 and $20,000, will be given to help make up the difference.
Our church has three special offerings a year. All of them are ...
KJ Choi Night
Our church will be holding "KJ Choi Night".
For those who do not know him well let me introduce him briefly. KJ Choi is a professional golfer active on the PGA Tour. It is very hard to even earn the right to play in Tour because you're competing against the very best players in the world. Choi is the first Korean player to win a tournament on the PGA Tour. In fact, he won two events last year.
He is also a member of our church and a devout Christian. He lives in the Woodlands and never misses a Sunday worship service or Wednesday prayer meeting when he is in town. The ...
Visiting Korea
I'm leaving Houston tonight (November 9) to lead several meetings in Korea including a seminar on house churches for pastors, another seminar for lay leaders, a conference for pastors, and a series of revival meetings. My wife will be accompanying me on this trip and teaching an intensive course for married couples at the conference.
For those who'll be praying for us while we're away, let me share some details of the trip.
As soon as we arrive we'll change planes and go to Yosu, a beautiful southern coastal city on Tuesday. The conference will start there that aftern...
Wedding and Funeral Honorariums
Over the course of a little more than six years of New Life history, I have officiated nine weddings and also have been involved in about a half-dozen other weddings. The usual wedding ceremony lasts for about 30 to 40 minutes, and on the outside, it does not seem to be that difficult to prepare and conduct. What takes place before each wedding ceremony, however, is actually time-consuming and requires quite a bit of my thought and energy.
For example, when a couple approaches me with the intention of getting married, I usually invite them over to my house at two ...
How To Make House Church Meetings Helpful
One of the concerns people who come to attend our house church seminars have is that their church members may be unwilling to meet every week. In most Korean-American churches small groups meet once or twice a month. But every house church is a true "church" and as such, must meet every week. These people wonder if such frequent meetings might be requiring too much commitment.
Weekly meetings should not be a problem if members' needs are met. One big human need is self-expression. In Korea, men go to bars after work with their coworkers almost every day, not so much for ...