Listen, Discern, & Preach: Recent Episodes
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I once told my wife, “Someday, I will set sail in a sail-boat to travel around the world. You will join me, right?” She answered, “Well, you go ahead. I am staying here.” Well… marriage is always a constant negotiation. But I do feel like my ministry has been like setting sail in the ocean. […]
At first, we could not believe our eyes. There, baby was waving at us with hands. The baby bounced sometimes stretching its little hands and legs. I had tears running in my eyes when I said, “Hi, baby.” It was definitely something I never felt before. In Korea, parents usually give temporary name to […]
This week’s story is about Bartimaeus, a blind beggar who encountered Jesus in Jericho. Bartimaeus shouted to Jesus to grab his attention while he was walking with his disciples and a large crowd. He must have shouted very loud to be heard by Jesus. Even though he is a blind, he is one of the […]
Sermon Series: John Wesley’s Three Simple Rules Text: Colossians 2:6-7 Title: Stay in Love with God As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
A while ago, I read a news article from CNN that introduced the Valley of Death in Afghanistan. Its original name is the Korangal Valley located south of the Pech River in the northeastern Afghanistan. Forty-two American military soldiers died fighting in the Korangal and hundreds were wounded. It has been called “the Valley of […]
Text: 2 Samuel 11:1-15 Title: Lead Us Not into Temptation In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose […]
As I sat in WTSN, a radio station in Dover, NH, my heart started beating loud. It was my first time to speak at a radio show program. “Is this Minister Bob? We would like to host you to our program on Tuesday morning.” That was the call I received last Thursday. I thought about […]
Text: Mark 3:20-35 Title: Draw the Circle Wide and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. 21When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” 22And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, […]
John 3:1-17 3Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” 3Jesus answered […]
Preaching the End of the World or the New World? Introduction “When are you going to preach about the end of the world?” While she was shaking my hands after worship service, Barbara asked me the question. I could not answer the question mainly because the apocalyptic texts are not the first texts I choose […]