❖ 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…

❖ Video ❖ Audio The light that shines in darkness Isaiah 9:1-7 Mari Ikeda We have entered the Christmas season, but this year’s Christmas has become very unusual (compared to other Christmases). How are we going to receive Christmas in this darkness called Corona? Today, during the first week of advent, we will be looking at Isaiah chapter 9 in the old testament. First, we will read the whole passage.  1Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the…