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↓Audio link to the sermon:(Sunday worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today’s passage talks about how God rejected Saul and chose David as the new king. It was God who had chosen and established Saul as king. It was also God who rejected him. In other words, the authority to appoint or remove a king belongs to God. It was not Saul’s choice, but God’s choice. This means that God takes the initiative. This is what we call the sovereignty of God. Brothers and sisters, as we grow older—especially after we turn fifty—we begin to realize something. That is… There aren’t that many

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(Sunday worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) [Luke 1] 1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. Sorry, this post is no translate, only

↓Audio link to the sermon:(Sunday worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Sorry, this post is no translate, only available in Japanese. [Acts 27] 22 But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be destroyed. 23 Last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me 24 and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.’ 25 So keep up your courage, men, for

↓Audio link to the sermon:(Sunday worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) “He rescues and he saves, he has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions” (Daniel 6:27) Today we will read Daniel chapter 6. But first, let’s briefly recall what we have learned so far. There was a prophecy about a rock cut out of the mountain that would destroy nations and a new kingdom would be established; and this took place during the time of the Romans (Daniel 2:44, 45). This rock was the Savior, whose birth brought the kingdom of heaven to earth. Through the book of Daniel we also

↓Audio link to the sermon:(Sunday worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Let me begin by asking a question. What do you think people live by? Tolstoy argues in his short novel titled “What people live by” that people live “by love.” Do you agree?  A Japanese novelist Yoshino Kenzaburo also wrote a book titled, “How will you live?” I also wrote a book titled “How Do I Live as a Christian?” This kind of a question seems to be a profound, philosophical and even ontological question. Therefore, it’s not easy to answer this question. But let me ask you once again. What do

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(Sunday worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Sorry, this post is no translate, only available in Japanese. Acts 20:32-38 32 “Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. 34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. 35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the

↓Audio link to the sermon:(Sunday worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) There are things that we need to pay attention to when we live as Christians. There are things that we need to take interest in when we live as God’s children. There are things that we need to take care of when we live as God’s people. Thankfully, we Christians have more to pay attention to, take interest in and take care of than unbelievers(non-Christians). Don’t you think so? We have more to do than unbelievers. We live busier lives than they do. As Christians, we have a lot to do and