Month: January 2023

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) 　 Good morning, everyone. Today is the 5th Sunday of the month. I’m thankful to God for Kitazawa-sensei, See Huang, and Park-sensei’s help in preaching at IBF. My prayer for this new year is that all of us will look to our Savior and be grounded and mature in our faith. In my previous message, I focused on Jeremiah chapter 32, verses 39 and 40: “I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for

↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) In our series on the book of Mark, we recently looked at Jesus’ parables. Now we begin a new section, in which Jesus authenticates his teachings and identity as God’s Son through his miraculous power. He has power over nature, demons, sickness, and death. For today, we will look at Jesus’ power over the nature, in Mark chapter 4. Let’s pray. Mark 4:35-36 We’ll read Mark 4:35-41. Starting with verses 35-36: On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today, I am going to talk about our God, the Promise Keeper. Animals don’t make promises. But we as human beings make promises. We try to keep them. We promise like, “I promise not to tell anyone. I’ll keep it a secret.” “I promise I will never do it again. Take my word for it.” I often promise my wife that I will do the dishes right after every meal. But I don’t keep it 100 percent. When we look up the word “promise” in the dictionary, it says, “A promise is

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.” Sorry, this post is no translate, only available in Japanese. (If you can’t hear from the bar above, click the blue button)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Welcome to our first worship service of 2023. I pray that this new year, we will look to our Savior and have a new sense of hope. The word “hope” has a lovely ring to it. May today’s message bring hope to you. In my last sermon on the book of Jeremiah, the key verse was Jeremiah 31:31. Which said, “‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.’” When God talked about the new covenant,