❖ Video ❖ Audio What Has Become of Our World? Psalm 88 Andy Nagahara Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have exalted a young man from among the people. I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him. My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him. (19-21) A. The “good” world that God created 1. Human beings as God’s final creation 2. Human beings as God’s partners Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Let’s Return Home Luke 15:11-32 (The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen) Mari Ikeda 1. A despair that separates us from others and from which there is no escape a. Leaving home (11-13) 11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. 13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. b. Wandering further and further away from home (13-16) 13…

❖ Video ❖ Audio And Yet, Jesus is There Psalm 88 Andy Nagahara A <maskil> of Heman the Ezrahite.1 O LORD, the God who saves me, day and night I cry out before you.2 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry. 3 For my soul is full of trouble and my life draws near the grave.4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength.5 I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.6 You have put me…

❖ Video ❖ Audio The Temple Jesus Built Mark 14:53-65 Mari Ikeda A. Becoming our own god and rejecting the true God (53-59) 53 They took Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests, the elders and the teachers of the law came together. 54 Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. There he sat with the guards and warmed himself at the fire. 55 The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any. 56 Many testified falsely against him, but their statements…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Where is Your Fountain? Psalm 87 Andy Nagahara 0 Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song. 1 He has set his foundation on the holy mountain; 2 the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are said of you, O city of God: <Selah> 4 “I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me– Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush — and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’” 5 Indeed, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.” 6 The LORD…