Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Mission Festival’s Schedule is Adjusted
Some of you may remember that this is about time of the year when we have Mission Festival. That is true. SBC used to have the event around the first week or the second week of November. However, this schedule will be changed. Last July, we had mission ministry meeting. Many issues were discussed and it was proposed that it would be better to have Mission Festival in early February rather than November. That proposal was accepted and it will be in place from this year. Therefore, mission festival will be February 5th through 7th of 2016.
There were ...
Holy Waste of Time
To prepare for weekly sermon, I tend to spend lots of time. I read many reference materials to form the body part of sermon. Also, it takes a long time to write it out. This habit of mine used be no problem. However, when there is a special activity such as conference or seminar, I am under stress because of shortage of time. For example, during the pastor's seminar, I have almost no time from Tuesday evening. Those weeks, we normally have Living Life bible study on Monday evening and I have to prepare for the seminar during the day time. This leaves no ...
Starting Point of Marriage
People have different opinions about the starting point of marriage. Some argue that the wedding ceremony is man-made so it should not be regarded as a defining moment. All that is needed is a marriage certificate and living together is the beginning of marriage. That is what they claim. In that case, the next question is why a marriage certificate is necessary. A marriage certificate is a mere format made by the government to administer family records. Therefore, the only important thing is to live together and when they do that and share a bed, some claim ...
Internship Procedure for Pastors Became Official
Some of you may have read the director’s corner on the home page of House Church Ministries International. In the column, Reverend Chai talked about the internship procedure for house church ministry. When a seminary student, a pastor or a missionary wants to experience the house church system, we will actively help them while they are in SBC so that when they are ready to start their ministry work, they will be prepared and armed with knowledge and experience of house church system.
The only prerequisite of this internship is attendance of house church seminar. ...
A woman who finished her life well
I didn't get a permission to write about her. I trust it is okay. If not, I deeply apologize to her family. It is about Joyce Kim's mother who passed away last Sunday. Joyce came to New Life a few years ago from another church in Houston where there was basically no English speaking ministry. When she joined us, she served faithfully in our youth group, invited her friends persistently to her house church and helped them to be saved by bringing them to Receiving Jesus Meeting. During the brief time I got to know her, I sensed that there was a deep respect and appreciation ...
The Biggest House Church Seminar So Far
Let's pray for the upcoming House Church Seminar for Lay Leaders which will be from October 9 to 11. We initially planned to host 30 participants. However, more than 30 church leaders went through the registration process in less than two weeks since we opened up the online registration. Therefore, we felt the need to receive more participants than we originally anticipated. Now, we have 46 church leaders who will be coming to this year's lay leaders' seminar. This is the biggest number so far. But I pray that the number will continue to grow so that we can help and serve ...
How to Change a Bad Habit
It is said that faith is a struggle with habit. We all have our own undesirable habit. Since it is so difficult to overcome it, sometimes spiritual growth is hindered because of that. This kind of habit tends to be deep rooted and almost becomes part of ourselves. Sometime, we think that we conquer it, but then it comes back. After several of these experiences, we become discouraged and can even lose interest in walk of faith.
Charles Duhigg, a non-Christian, wrote a book titled ‘The Power of Habit’. This book provides some guidance to overcome habit. ...