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1 Cor 3:10-17, 9/11: Rebuilding from Ground Zero (pt 2 of 4)

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If you recall, last week we saw a clip from Stanley Praimnath. He worked on the 84th floor of one of the WTC towers and he survived. He was a Christian, but this event made him think about how he was investing his life and he ended up becoming a pastor. Sister Jen shared with me another clip by a pastor named Soju John and he, too, is a 9/11 survivor.

I have a lot to share today so in the interest of time, I am going to summarize the clip instead of showing it and you can google his name later on youtube. [Read more…] about 1 Cor 3:10-17, 9/11: Rebuilding from Ground Zero (pt 2 of 4)

Conclusion of Romans: The Gospel of Jesus Christ on Full Display (pt 2 of 3)

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Wouldn’t you agree with that assessment of the human condition? We may look all good on the outside. But when we are honest with ourselves and we look inward, I think we can all agree that we are not good, that there is something fundamentally wrong with us. We are filled with selfishness, envy, lust, we don’t care about others when push comes to shove and the Bible calls this condition, sin. No one is righteous, not even one, we are all sinners, every single one of us. And God is holy. That means, we are in a heap of trouble.

This is the human predicament that we read about in Romans 1. God is good, but we are not. [Read more…] about Conclusion of Romans: The Gospel of Jesus Christ on Full Display (pt 2 of 3)

Conclusion of Romans: The Gospel of Jesus Christ on Full Display (pt 1 of 3)

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We have finally reached the end of our book of Romans. At the time when we began in Sept of last year (9/7/2010), I was in a period of transition as my job had just ended and I was praying about being the pastor of this church. And my first burden was, what do I preach? And what messages does God want our church to hear? And somehow, God led me to the book of Romans. Frankly, the book of Romans scared me, and if it were up to me, I certainly wouldn’t have chosen to tackle this book as my first one as a regular preacher. But in the end, it made sense to study Romans because as a young church, we needed to lay a solid theological and Biblical foundation and what better book to study than Romans?

Starting Romans was significant because unlike years past, we started preaching expositionally, meaning going through the Bible book by book and chapter by chapter. [Read more…] about Conclusion of Romans: The Gospel of Jesus Christ on Full Display (pt 1 of 3)