↓ Audio link to the sermon (1st worship service recording): (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) During my time at a Christian university in Texas, I encountered an interesting policy—no dancing was allowed at school events, except for cultural dances from other countries. The intent was to discourage unhealthy sexual behavior. While the university eventually relaxed this rule, it may still seem overly conservative to many, including Christians. This memory resonates with today’s sermon. In our quest to please God, we can sometimes veer to extremes, as seen in the Pharisees’ misguided approach. Their misinterpretation of God and the Bible led their religious devotion astray.
What is the gospel?(Part 1) Isaiah 53:4-6
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today, I would like to talk about the gospel. I am going to preach the gospel. Let me begin by asking a question. Do you know what the gospel is? More specifically, what does the gospel mean to you? We often use the word “gospel” or the phrase “preach the Gospel” in churches, but many of us may not deeply ponder upon what the Gospel is and its specific content. Once again, what is the gospel? Do you know what its specific content is? What does it mean to you? It may
“What is the greatest commandment?” (Matthew 22:34-40)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Matthew 22:34-40 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
“I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.” (Ezekiel 37:5)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today we enter chapter 37 of Ezekiel. In this chapter, Ezekiel describes a vision. The vision is a revelation of Israel’s restoration. It is a vision that can encourage us as well today. As we look carefully at this vision, I hope you will see what great hope God gave to the people of Israel who were in captivity. Verse 1 says, “The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was