❖ Video ❖ Audio Getting Back at Our True Enemy “Seven Times” (Psalm 79) Andy Nagahara A.  Everyone is suffering (1-7) A psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble. They have given the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. We are objects of reproach to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us. (1-4) B.…

❖ Video ❖ Audio To Die, To Rise Again, To Live (Mark 12:18-27) Mari Ikeda A.  The resurrected body (18-25, I Corinthians 15) 18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third.…

❖ Video ❖ Audio “Peace Be With You” x2 The Message for Easter Sunday (John 20:19-23) Mari Ikeda A.  Peace between us and Jesus 1. Peace in the midst of fear (19) On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”    2. The one who conquered death (20a) After he said this, he showed them his hands and side.  3. The one who offers love and forgiveness of sins (20b) The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.  B.  Peace between us and other people…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Passover 2020 Isaiah 53:4-12 Andy Nagahara A.  The road to the cross 1. Jesus who bears our sickness (4) 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.   2. Jesus who bears our mistakes (5) 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 3. Why we make mistakes (6) 6 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Our Attitude Toward Human Authority Mark 12:13-17 Mari Ikeda A.  Three different attitudes toward Rome (13-14) 13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not?  1. We should not pay taxes 2. We have no choice but to pay taxes 3. We…

❖ Video ❖ Audio The Farmers Who Were Entrusted with Life (the World) Mark 11:27-12:12 Mari Ikeda A.  Unable to face their sin, they were unable to face God (27-33) 27 They arrived again in Jerusalem, and while Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders came to him. 28 “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you authority to do this?” 29 Jesus replied, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 30 John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Did God Create Viruses? Genesis 1:27-31, Matthew 6:19-21, Isaiah 55:2 Andy Nagahara A.  A simple question So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Bearing Fruit in Jesus Mark 11:12-25 Mari Ikeda A.  Things that anger Jesus 1. Things that don’t bear fruit (12-14, Micah 7:1-2) 12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it. 1 What misery is mine! I am like one who gathers summer…

❖ Video ❖ Audio Let’s Welcome Jesus into Our Hearts Mark 11:1-11, Zechariah 9:9-10 Mari Ikeda A.  The joy that Jesus wants to give (1-7, Zechariah 9:9-10) 1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’”4 They went and…

❖ Video ❖ Audio The Focus of Our Worship Service Mark 12:28-30, Romans 12:1, Luke 10:38-42, Psalm 42:1,3-4, 2 Samuel 6:14-16 Andy Nagahara A.  What is worship? 1) The focus of our daily life One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’…