“Take warning, Jerusalem” (Jeremiah 6:8)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is my fourth message on the book of Jeremiah. The theme of the previous message was “Return, faithless people” (Jeremiah 3:22). In that passage, God desired his people to repent and return to him. In Jeremiah 3:14-18, God said he would forgive his people and bring them back to Zion. He will restore both the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel. This restoration will involve a small remnant of exiles from Israel who had lost their country. The stubborn hearts of his people will change; and the

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

Jesus First Disciples (Mark 1:16-20)

↓Audio link to the sermon: (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Last month I watched a movie called The Peanut Butter Falcon. Set in poor, rural America, the film is about a troubled fisherman who befriends a young man with Down’s syndrome. I’m sure that not all fishermen are the same, but the ones in this movie were rough men, foul-mouthed, covered with tattoos, and ready to fire a rifle at you. If I met them in real-life, I would be scared of them. In the gospel of Mark, we are told that Jesus’ first disciples were fishermen. Today we’ll read a short passage about

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

“Where is the Lord?” (Jeremiah 2:6)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is my second sermon on the book of Jeremiah. Last month we saw how God called Jeremiah. God said to him, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” The phrase “I knew you” can be translated as “I chose you”. Jeremiah was chosen to be raised up in a close relationship with God. But God does not only know Jeremiah; He knows each one of us. And God wants to raise each of us up in a relationship with Him. God loves us and wants to nurture our