I want to pause here and ask, what might our blinders be today? Back then, the Jews had their cultural blinder of their Jewish heritage so they could only conceive of a Messiah who was going to treat the nation of Israel in a special way. What blinders do you and I have? Especially for […]
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Ordination Service of Ray Choi (Feb 6, 2011)
Thank you, friends and family, for traveling from all over — Philly, Washington, D.C., the UK, N. Cal, San Diego and throughout Southern Cal — to come and share this special day with us. First, let me just apologize to any Packers and Steelers fans out there because you have to be here instead of […]
Revelation 12: Why Are There So Many Scrooges During Christmas? (Part 4 of 4)
Third, we triumph by the word of our testimony without shrinking from death. Rev 12:11 – They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. What does it mean to triumph by the word […]
Revelation 12: Why Are There So Many Scrooges During Christmas? (Part 3 of 4)
What about the spiritual reality? Here in Revelation, we get to put our spiritual night vision goggles and we see a deeper spiritual message. Let’s read Rev 12:4 starting from the second half of that verse — Rev 12:4 – 4 …The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, […]
I Need Jesus Every Day, Every Moment (Part 1 of 6)
Read Rom 2:17-29. We have been going through the book of Romans on the Sundays when I preach. The first sermon was from Rom 1 and the verse that says, the righteous will live by faith. I talked about the lens of faith and how the only essential thing from our past, present and the […]
Oswald Chambers Devotional: A living faith overflows
“The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water.” John 4:14 The picture Our Lord gives is not that of a channel but a fountain. “Be being filled,” and the sweetness of vital relationship to Jesus will flow out of the saint as lavishly as it is imparted to […]