↓Audio link to the sermon: (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Among English-speaking Christians there is this phrase called “mountaintop experience.” It means a memorable and high moment in a person’s spiritual life. Usually, it’s an event that caused you to feel unusually close to God. Or receive a significant insight from God. Today’s passage in Mark 9 is about a mountaintop experience for three of Jesus’ closest disciples, Peter, James, and John. They had already seen amazing miracles, but what they see here is another level. Besides thinking about this event through their eyes, I want to think about the question, “Why doesn’t God
“What is Mission?” (Matthew 28:18-20)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today, I’d like to talk about “mission” with you. Before Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, He spoke about mission, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20. It says, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” This is known as the “Great Commission.” Brothers and sisters, do you know what the Great Commission is? It’s Jesus’
“They do not know what they do.”(Luke 23:32-37)
↓Audio link to the sermon: (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) 32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
“I will leave within you the meek and humble” (Zephaniah 3:12)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today we will be reading from the book of Zephaniah. In the past, I have mentioned several times about King Josiah, who carried out religious reforms in Judah. Judah, the southern kingdom of Israel, had many problems. In particular, the rulers before Josiah, King Manasseh and Amon, were considered evil kings as they allowed idolatry to be practiced even in Jerusalem, and they ruled in a way that was against God’s laws. It was in this context that King Josiah tried to reform the country, and one of the prophets who encouraged