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Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 19:1-15
Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 19:1-15 God wants us to have a community of love. God helps us to be in a community of love, where everybody cares for one another. To be a community of love, the strong have to look for the weak. The rich gladly take care of the poor. The powerful…
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Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 18:23-35
Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 18:23-35 We can love others when we are loved first. In a sense, we learn how to love by being loved. Also, we can forgive and accept others when we realize that we have been also forgiven and accepted. Whether we realize it or not, Jesus died on the Cross…
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Ministry: A place where the biblical visions and human needs encounter.
Ministry: A place where the biblical visions and human needs encounter. Let us start with basic human needs. We humans generally have these needs: 1. Physical needs. We need to eat, sleep, and make love. We want to be healthy and alive. Survival is the basic need. 2. The need for purpose and meaning. However,…
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Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala (4)
Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala (4) After we deliver the medicine to the Santiago hospital, we went to the Lake Atitlan. It was a lake formed by the volcano activity. Long time ago, it was an active volcano but now it was a peaceful lake. I thought that when I was young I was like…
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Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala (3)
Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala (3) On the next day, we moved to a village in a palm tree plantation, San Juan Seritos. I have never seen so many palm trees. We went through the thousands of palm trees. They said that they would make palm oil from them. I remembered that I saw palm…
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Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala (2)
Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala (2) At the village Nueva Covadonga, Jim and Glen, two young men spent lot of times playing with the little children of the village. Their mother side grandmother came to USA from Guatemala. These two young men were so happy to see the root of their mother. They became friends with…
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Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala
Joyful Fellowship in Guatemala Our church has been leading the Guatemala medical mission team for many years. This year I joined to the team for the first time. From our church Dr. Marybeth, Doug and Betsy McLeod, and I went with the 15 other people from all over the country. Before I went to…
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Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 18:15-22
Sermon in a nutshell: Matthew 18:15-22 We want to build a community of love. So, we have to forgive each other. You and I are not perfect. You and I are going to make mistakes. We are going to hurt each other. We need to forgive each other to make a community of love! How…
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Sermon in nutshell: Matthew 18:1-14
Sermon in nutshell: Matthew 18:1-14 Our church welcomes everybody. In our church, everybody, young and old, rich and poor, sinners and saints, every person is loved and respected. Nobody among us is perfect. We are all sinners redeemed by the blood of Jesus. Now we are children of God and citizens of God’s Kingdom. However,…
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Sermon in a nutshell : Matthew 17:22-27
Sermon in a nutshell : Matthew 17:22-27 On July 4th our church went to the Todos Santos Park and served the community with music and love. But why did we decide to go out into the park? Behind every decision, there is a guiding principle. Our guiding principle is the biblical “wisdom,” which is the…
