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While the gospel writers reported what they saw and heard, they were not given the privilege of reading Christ's mind. However, through the inspiration of Holy Spirit, the Old Testament reveals what was actually running through His mind as He struggled on the…
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previously published in September 2005 A couple years back I complained to a good friend of mine that I lacked the desire to attend church. In fact, my husband and I hadn’t been attending regularly for more than a couple years by then. We would show up…
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We are so obsessed with perfection and strength. Maybe it’s a human thing, but I’m convinced it is definitely an Asian, and certainly a Korean thing. It is hard for Koreans to share what is going wrong in their lives, unless it is in some warped…
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Although our average income has increased over the years, our rate of tithing, especially among today’s Korean-American adults, have decreased. This may be attributed to two factors: (1) There are less second and third generation Korean Americans…
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It seems challenging to find outreach activities that matches the volunteers' time/gifts/comfort with the needs of the less fortunate. How does a church go about finding worthy outreach activities that are truly meaningful and not just done for the sake of…
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We often encounter the three most fundamental questions of life: 1. Who am I? 2. Where did I come from? 3. What is my Destiny? Which question is most important? The key question is the second one: where did I come from? Depending on your answer, your destiny…
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There is that part of me that likes to try and “kick against the goads.” It has been both a blessing and the bane of my existence but it's something that is deeply entrenched in my being. Perhaps this is why I have alway carried a bit of a secret…
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Grandma Deng Mei is 87 years old and is a particularly bright ray of sunshine, showing the world how Jesus has changed her life. She is blind, has no fingers, cannot walk and lives in a leper colony in Guangdong Province. Her only family members died when she…
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At six years old, everything interesting is above me, just beyond my reach. On this day, more frustrating than I could bear, my mom, dressed in a crisply ironed outfit, tugged me briskly past a cavernous terminal full of fascinating airplane-related things.…
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On the first Sabbath in heaven, I wonder how we’ll be worshipping God? Will the youth and young adult groups go to a special separate mini-sanctuary while the adults occupy the “main” sanctuary with most of the “traditional”…
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