Cindy Park continued the HD series with a message on 1 Timothy 4:14-15. Paul wrote this letter to Timothy to remind him to use his God-given gifts. Ultimately, Timothy's gifts weren't for himself, but rather, for others and to bring glory to God. In the same way, we need to recognize and embrace our God-given gifts. Once we understand who God has created us to BE, we'll have a clearer understanding of what we should do. Tako then shared about how God has worked powerfully through the very things he despised about himself. Though Tako struggled with negative labels of his self-identity, God freed him of those labels as he saw the Bible's true description of his identity. He also shared about his new commitment to love God and his neighbors with everything he is, including his musical talent, even if it means getting out of his comfort zone.
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Written by Ed Chu
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sermon Rewind 1/16/10 (Peter Park)
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 7:1
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”
17 Therefore,
“Come out from them
and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you."
18 And,
“I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”[d]
2 Corinthians 7
1 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
Pastor Peter gave us a High Definition of the word “Holy” – a word we often use but are unsure of how to apply in our lives. To be holy means to be set apart – to be free of sin, to be guiltless, pure. In Leviticus 11:45, God commands us to “be holy, for I am holy.” This is a twofold process involving both refrainment and active participation. We should strive to influence and help others in the world, but not let ourselves be negatively influenced by others, whether it be in our marriage, friendships, or business partnerships. We must also actively work to desire holiness and be holy as a direct expression of our identity as a child of God. This can be done by seeking out Jesus as well as His community of followers. Let us be holy because He is holy, and we were made in His image.
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14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”
17 Therefore,
“Come out from them
and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you."
18 And,
“I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”[d]
2 Corinthians 7
1 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
Pastor Peter gave us a High Definition of the word “Holy” – a word we often use but are unsure of how to apply in our lives. To be holy means to be set apart – to be free of sin, to be guiltless, pure. In Leviticus 11:45, God commands us to “be holy, for I am holy.” This is a twofold process involving both refrainment and active participation. We should strive to influence and help others in the world, but not let ourselves be negatively influenced by others, whether it be in our marriage, friendships, or business partnerships. We must also actively work to desire holiness and be holy as a direct expression of our identity as a child of God. This can be done by seeking out Jesus as well as His community of followers. Let us be holy because He is holy, and we were made in His image.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Sermon Rewind 1/9/11 (Alex Wu)
Proverbs 3:11-12 (NIV):
Hebrews 12:10-11 (NIV:
Alex Wu took an HD look at GOD’s love today as it is demonstrated by His discipline. Just as parents imperfectly discipline children, GOD perfectly disciplines us for our own good. While discipline is more than punishment, that is the most difficult facet for us to identify and appreciate. Sometimes we are honestly confused when times are painful and it is at these times that we have to believe that GOD’s will is perfect and have faith.
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11 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, 12 because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
Hebrews 12:10-11 (NIV:
10 They [our human fathers] disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Alex Wu took an HD look at GOD’s love today as it is demonstrated by His discipline. Just as parents imperfectly discipline children, GOD perfectly disciplines us for our own good. While discipline is more than punishment, that is the most difficult facet for us to identify and appreciate. Sometimes we are honestly confused when times are painful and it is at these times that we have to believe that GOD’s will is perfect and have faith.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Sermon Rewind 1/2/11 (Peter Park)
Jonah 4 (The Message)
1-2 Jonah was furious. He lost his temper. He yelled at God, "God! I knew it—when I was back home, I knew this was going to happen! That's why I ran off to Tarshish! I knew you were sheer grace and mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of punishment into a program of forgiveness!
4God said, "What do you have to be angry about?"
5But Jonah just left. He went out of the city to the east and sat down in a sulk. He put together a makeshift shelter of leafy branches and sat there in the shade to see what would happen to the city.
6God arranged for a broad-leafed tree to spring up. It grew over Jonah to cool him off and get him out of his angry sulk. Jonah was pleased and enjoyed the shade. Life was looking up.
7-8But then God sent a worm. By dawn of the next day, the worm had bored into the shade tree and it withered away. The sun came up and God sent a hot, blistering wind from the east. The sun beat down on Jonah's head and he started to faint. He prayed to die: "I'm better off dead!"
9Then God said to Jonah, "What right do you have to get angry about this shade tree?"
Jonah said, "Plenty of right. It's made me angry enough to die!"
10-11God said, "What's this? How is it that you can change your feelings from pleasure to anger overnight about a mere shade tree that you did nothing to get? You neither planted nor watered it. It grew up one night and died the next night. So, why can't I likewise change what I feel about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big city of more than 120,000 childlike people who don't yet know right from wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent animals?"
Peter Park kicked off the HD Series with a sermon about how God is not fair many times in our lives. The HD Series is about having a higher definition and seeing a clearer picture of who God is. Taking the perspective that fairness is getting what you deserve, then if God was fair, we would all deserve eternal condemnation - "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). However, looking at Jonah 4, we see how God was actually unfair to Nineveh. The city repented and God rescinded his wrath upon them. They did not deserve God's unfairness. God's unfairness is called grace. Grace is an undeserved gift. Who do we need to treat unfairly and show God's grace through us? Let's turn vengeance to victory. There is freedom in God's grace.
Sermon Rewind by Arnold Wang
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1-2 Jonah was furious. He lost his temper. He yelled at God, "God! I knew it—when I was back home, I knew this was going to happen! That's why I ran off to Tarshish! I knew you were sheer grace and mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of punishment into a program of forgiveness!
4God said, "What do you have to be angry about?"
5But Jonah just left. He went out of the city to the east and sat down in a sulk. He put together a makeshift shelter of leafy branches and sat there in the shade to see what would happen to the city.
6God arranged for a broad-leafed tree to spring up. It grew over Jonah to cool him off and get him out of his angry sulk. Jonah was pleased and enjoyed the shade. Life was looking up.
7-8But then God sent a worm. By dawn of the next day, the worm had bored into the shade tree and it withered away. The sun came up and God sent a hot, blistering wind from the east. The sun beat down on Jonah's head and he started to faint. He prayed to die: "I'm better off dead!"
9Then God said to Jonah, "What right do you have to get angry about this shade tree?"
Jonah said, "Plenty of right. It's made me angry enough to die!"
10-11God said, "What's this? How is it that you can change your feelings from pleasure to anger overnight about a mere shade tree that you did nothing to get? You neither planted nor watered it. It grew up one night and died the next night. So, why can't I likewise change what I feel about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big city of more than 120,000 childlike people who don't yet know right from wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent animals?"
Peter Park kicked off the HD Series with a sermon about how God is not fair many times in our lives. The HD Series is about having a higher definition and seeing a clearer picture of who God is. Taking the perspective that fairness is getting what you deserve, then if God was fair, we would all deserve eternal condemnation - "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). However, looking at Jonah 4, we see how God was actually unfair to Nineveh. The city repented and God rescinded his wrath upon them. They did not deserve God's unfairness. God's unfairness is called grace. Grace is an undeserved gift. Who do we need to treat unfairly and show God's grace through us? Let's turn vengeance to victory. There is freedom in God's grace.
Sermon Rewind by Arnold Wang
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
Sermon rewind: 12.26.2010 (Benjie Kim)
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Benjie Kim ends the year with a message from Matthew 6:25-34 - a familiar story for most, about not worrying. However it comes when we seek His kingdom first. His kingdom matters more than ours. Our own little "kingdoms": career, ministry, self identity, family...all must be put on His altar. He will always provide for our needs and not necessarily all our wants. To not worry, a command of Jesus, is a reminder that He is enough. Nothing else. His glory is where you will find peace for the years to come.
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