Luke 7:1-10 “I have not found such great faith”_Pastor Kitazawa

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. 2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.” 6 So Jesus went with them. He

Gospel of John 5:1-9 “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get

“Return, faithless people” (Jeremiah 3:22)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today’s message is my third sermon on the book of Jeremiah. The theme of my previous sermon was “Where is the Lord?” (from Jeremiah 2:6) God had given his people many trials and difficulties as an opportunity to repent. Likewise, in our lives, difficult times can be opportunities for us to repent or change our direction. These are times for us to ask, “Where is the Lord?” We should stop to remember how God has been gracious to us. He is the God who rescued the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. We

Matthew 9:9-13, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick”

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what