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John 20:19-23 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on t

Isaiah 26:3 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. We've started the month of October with a dive into our theme verse: Isaiah 26:3. What is God's perfect peace? What is Shalom Shalom? How do we keep our mind stay on God? How do we trust Him in the dailyness of life? When things are out of control, we lose peace. And that means we lose peace quite often. God is waiting until we are completely exhausted and then He invades our live

Psalm 30:5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. This was the last talk on the theme: In His Joy. Jesus clearly stated that in this world, we will experience trials & tribulations... and that as End Times draw closer, persecution will abound. How to see beyond the weeping and stand firm in the midst of difficulties to welcome the morning with JOY? The earlier believers were persecut

John 15:11 & John 16:33 Again, the Lord brought us another anointed message through the mouth of our brother, John Wu, going deeper in exploring the theme of IN HIS JOY! How is IN HIS JOY different from IN HIS PRESENCE? How is His joy different from other emotions of happiness, according to the 'mood meter'? How is His joy displayed in the midst of trials, hardships, tribulations, and suffering? How is His joy foundational for our lives? His joy is not manufactured. His joy i

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! II Corinthians 6:10 says, Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. Dr. Winston Chu delivered another anointed message... If you weren't able to attend the service yesterday, please do take the time to watch it online. Here are the main points: The Foundation of Joy Is Not Our Circumstances, BUT Being "In the Lord". Joy Is Not Something

If you were not able to attend the HOP Service on September 6th, I would strongly suggest that you take the time to watch the message (the link is at the end of this post!)... Dr. Winston Chu will be with us again next week, looking at Joy through Paul's Epistles. For today's message, here are his five main points: Joy Begins with the Gospel: The Savior Has Come Luke 2:10-11 Joy Comes When the Lost Are Found Luke 15 Joy Comes from Abiding in Christ John 15 Joy Does Not Avoid

This past Sunday's testimonies were God-ordained! Joy shared from Exodus 2:23-25 and Hebrews 11:1 -- 23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped f

Acts 4: 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. The first point from last week about living in His presence was: Take every opportunity to share, to be a witness! And this week, we looked at the rest of Acts 4 and added three more points: Take a stand. Take our concerns to God. Live in radical community. Like Daniel, we live in "B

What does it mean to live in God's presence? For what purpose did Jesus give us the Holy Spirit? When reading the book of Acts, we often focus on the miracles of the lames being healed or jail doors being opened or chains falling. But the real focus of the book of Acts (with the coming of the Holy Spirit) is for us to receive power so that we can be witnesses! That's the MAIN EVENT! That's living in His Presence. Before Jesus ascended, He charged His disciples in Matthew 28:1

Romans 8:38-39 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. John Wu brought an anointed message this past Sunday, using Romans 8:38-39 as his main text. Looking at all that is listed -- death, life, angels, rulers, things present, things to come, principalities, height,

Psalm 16:11 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. What are areas of my life that could be changed by experiencing and living in God's presence? That was the question Alan ended with in his sermon this past Sunday.. that is the question that we need to think on every day and in every circumstances and for every decision. In our own pride, we think we can run away from the presence of God

If you missed this past Sunday's sermon, you need to watch it. And even if you were at the service, you need to watch it again. Our speaker, Kathryn Chen, packed 30 minutes with so many beautiful morsels of tasty spiritual food, it's worth your time to listen or watch it again. She used the story of Elijah, David, and Paul and Silas to nail the point that God's goodness is real, especially in the midst of difficulties. In I Kings 17, God instructed Elijah to go Eastward and h

Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever... What a beautiful way for David to end Psalm 23! He started the psalm with The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want... And he closes the psalm with absolute confidence and assurance that God pursues him -- at all times, in all seasons of your life and through all circumstances! In one of the commentaries, this was the more complete explanation: ·

This past Sunday, Pastor Luke Yang continued with this month's theme of In His Goodness by looking at Psalm 100:5 5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. and Genesis 1. Throughout Creation, God uttered the sentence: It was good... Each aspect of creation exhibited God's character of His goodness. From the very first chapter of the Bible, the foretelling of His love, grace and goodness in providing Salvation was already depi

Psalm 100:4-5 This past Sunday, Alan started the month of July with a message on How God's Goodness Affect Our Lives! Here were his four points: In His Goodness, He protects us. In His Goodness, He is patient with us. In His Goodness, He guides us. In His Goodness, He provides for us. In His Goodness, God gave us commands. These are not to limit our freedom, but they are like guardrails. His commandments protects us. Alan went on to talk about Matthew 7:14-15, contrasting the

Ezra 9:5-9 5 And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God, 6 saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens. 7 From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been gi

In case you didn't know... we didn't have our usual 4pm service this past Sunday... that's because we had the service at the Cozy Camp Ground in Southern Miaoli. Michael Go led us in two songs of worship. The second song was, Here I Bow. The chorus says, "So here I bow, to lift You high, Jesus, be glorified, in all things, for all my life, I am Yours, forever Yours." These words described the cry of my heart in response to the everlasting love and unfailing kindness of God.

Last week, Kathryn talked about how God's love removes shame. This week, Alan used John 3:16 to look at the 7 'S' of God's love... Surpassing Quality - SO Surprising Object -- WORLD Sacrificial Cost -- HIS ONE AND ONLY SON Serious Offer -- WHOSOEVER Selective Choice -- BELIEVES Special Promise -- SHALL NOT PERISH Satisfying Fulfillment -- HAVE ETERNAL LIFE For God SO loved the WORLD that He gave HIS ONE AND ONLY SON that WHOSOEVER BELIEVES in Him SHALL NOT PERISH but HAVE ETE

Kathryn started the month of June with a Spirit-led, Spirit-inspired, message focusing on the Biblical passages from Isaiah 54:1-5 and Isaiah 61:7. 4 “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. 5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole ea

It's hard to believe that it's already June... Our theme for the month of June is In His Love... but I just wanted to go back and recap and remind us to live in God's favor. Just because the month of May has ended, God's favor has not... He continues to lavish us with His favor... He continues to make His face to shine upon us. He continues to pour forth His grace and mercy and protection. And I pray that we will continue to grow! I was gone for most of May... and hence, I di