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　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.’” (Acts 18:9-10) We can read the Bible in various ways. I think the easiest way is to start from Genesis and continue reading to Revelation. Have you read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation? Genesis is not that difficult to read, and Exodus is also relatively readable. But it gets tougher from Leviticus onward. Reading and understanding

↓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

↓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’

↓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.”

↓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

↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today, I want to talk about “greed(covetousness).” I’m going to share with you, using King Jehoshaphat, the fourth king of Judah, as an example. Jehoshaphat became wealthy as a result of obeying God’s word. There are many testimonies of people becoming rich after believing in Jesus. I believe there are such testimonies in IBF Church too. However, just believing in Jesus does not necessarily mean that whoever believes in Jesus will become rich. You know that well, don’t you? Many times, people suffer as a result of believing in Jesus. Living a

↓ Audio link to the sermon: (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today, my message is not a traditional Christmas sermon that focuses on the birth of Jesus and the theme of joy. Instead, it is the continuation of our series on Mark’s gospel. Our passage today is actually about a heavy topic about the cost of discipleship. It is easy to talk about the blessings that Jesus brings to those who believe in him. But the life of a disciple of Jesus is also challenging. We need the full picture of what to expect: both the joy and the hardship. I believe this topic