❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) Water for Purification Turned to Wine Mari Ikeda Last month I used two Sundays of my turn to talk about the covenant of the members of this church, I’d like to go back to my series on John’s Gospel. Today’s reading is 2:1-12. It’s a little long, but let’s read the whole passage to start. 1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” 4 “Woman, why do…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) נ (Nun) A Lamp To My Feet And A Light For My Path Series: Finding the Gospel in Psalm 119ーA Hymn to the Law　14/22 Psalm 119:105-112 Andy Nagahara This is the fourteenth in a series of Psalm 119, which is called a hymn to the Law. Today, we will focus on verses 105-112, in which the fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “נ　（Nun),” is placed at the beginning of each line of the fourteenth paragraph.Since the last time around, the atmosphere of the psalm has changed a bit. In the last part, there were no words at all like the previously familiar cries for help.…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) Make Your Weakness the Source of Your Strength Your church Covenant II Mari Ikeda How are we practicing in the church the second promise of Your Church Covenant, “Love and serve each other”? Whether or not we actually practice it well, what kind of community are we trying to become? Today, I’d like to learn from the conversations between Jesus and Peter, what church is, and how we should be. There are three important points. Let us start with reading the passage of the first encounter of Jesus and Peter in John 1. A. Be yourself 1. Jesus chose you because you were you Andrew,…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) מ(Mem) The perfect food sweeter than honey Series: Finding the Gospel in Psalm 119ーA Hymn to the Law　13/22 Psalm 119:97-104 Andy Nagahara This is the thirteenth in a series of Psalm 119, which is called a hymn to the Law. Today, we will focus on verses 97-104, in which the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “מ（Mem),” is placed at the beginning of each line of the thirteenth paragraph. Mem is the Hebrew letter equivalent to the Greek letter Μμmu, and the English letter M. The character is believed to have originated from a letter depicting water (Hebrew: מים mayim). For the people who had…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) “From Solitude to Community to Ministry” Luke 6:12-26　 Yourchurch Covenant, (* This message is based on Henry Nouwen’s essay in 1995 titled, “Moving from Solitude to Community to Ministry.”) Mari Ikeda Today I’d like to leave my series on John’s Gospel, to talk about the membership of this church. In this church, members are not members forever once they become members. Rather, we ask everyone including pastors to decide annually. To be specific, we ask people to make a covenant to keep three promises. Three promises are, first to love God, second to love each other in the church, and third to go out from…