❖ Video ❖ Audio Let Us Praise the Name of the Lord Again This Year Psalm 92 Andy Nagahara 1. Worship–the fount of joy (0-6) 0 A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. 1 It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High, 2 to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, 3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp. 4 For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD; I sing for joy at the works of your hands. 5 How great are your works, O LORD, how profound your thoughts! 6 The senseless man does…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Only One Thing is Needed Luke 10:38-42, 6:46-49 Mari Ikeda A. Listen to the words of the Lord 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41 “Martha, Martha,” the…

❖ 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…

❖ 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…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Becoming a Person Whose Trust is in the Lord Psalm 91 Andy Nagahara 1. Expressing our trust in the Lord (1-8) 1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Mark Entrusted Us With Jesus’ Post-Resurrection Story Mark 15:42-16:8 Mari Ikeda A. Jesus’ death: The result of our sin (15:42-47) 15:42 It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. 44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. 45 When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. 46 So Joseph…