❖ 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…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) ל (Lamedh) The Secret of Eternal Life Series: Finding the Gospel in Psalm 119ーA Hymn to the Law　12/22 Psalm 119:89-96 Andy Nagahara This is the twelfth in a series of Psalm 119, which is called a hymn to the Law. Finally, we are now in the second half of the Psalm 119. We will focus on verses 89-96, in which the twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “ל (lamedh),” is placed at the beginning of each line of the twelfth paragraph.This is equivalent to the Greek letter lambda, and the English letter L. It is considered to derive from a script depicting a shepherd’s staff…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) “You Will See Greater Things” John 1:43-51 Mari Ikeda Today I’m going to continue the series of John’s Gospel, so I’ll read 1:43-51. This passage, continuing from last time, is the scene in which the first disciples met Jesus. It was Andrew and Peter last time. Today it will be persons called Philip and Nathanael. Let’s read a little at a time, starting with v.43-44. A. Philip 1. Discovered by Jesus (43-44) 43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Here we have…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) כ (Kaph) Put your hope in God’s word Series: Finding the Gospel in Psalm 119ーA Hymn to the Law　11/22 Psalm 119:81-86 Andy Nagahara We return to our series on Psalm 119, which is also called a hymn to the Law. For today’s eleventh part, we will focus on verses 81-88, in which the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “כ (kaph),” is placed at the beginning of each line of the paragraph.This character is thought to derive from a letter depicting a palm (Hebrew: כף kaf). What can we learn from the state of the psalmist when he was in the midst of life-threatening hardship,…

❖ Video (Whole Worship Service) ❖ Audio (Message) “Come, and You Will See.” John 1:35-42 Mari Ikeda As it’s the beginning of the new year, I was thinking to speak about the covenant of members of this church. But I decided to continue the series of John’s Gospel first, because I thought the passage to follow in the series was very appropriate to read at the start of a year. The passage is from John 1:35, the scene of the encounter of Jesus and His first disciples. It is illustrated the most in v.38-39, but let’s follow the order and read a little at a time, v.35-37 first. A. Being…