❖ Video ❖ Audio Jesus, the Master of Relationship Building Luke 19:1-10, John 13:14-17,34,35, John 15:4,5, Rome 12:9-17, John 20:19-23 Andy Nagahara 1. Jesus, the master of building relationships a. Jesus: the one who connects humans with God (Luke 19:1-10) Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up…

❖ Video ❖ Audio “I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy” 2 Timothy 1:3-14 Mari Ikeda A. God has brought us together (3-5) 3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. B. Each in our own place (5-8, 12-14) 6 For this…

❖ Video ❖ Audio The Worst Kind of Fake News? Or is it Something Else? John 1:1-5, 9-18 Andy Nagahara 1. Jesus, the God who created everything (1-5) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He was with God in the beginning.3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 2. The blessing that comes from walking with Jesus (9-13) 9 The true light that gives light…

❖ Video ❖ Audio God’s Commitment Revealed Through Jesus’ Birth Luke 2:1-14 Mari Ikeda A. Why it had to be Bethlehem (1-7) 1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to…

❖ Video ❖ Audio John the Baptist for Our Time Luke 1:67-80 Andy Nagahara 1. John the Baptist who came ahead of Jesus (67-77) 67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: 68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us– 72 to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath he swore…