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Date |
Message |
Presenter |
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| 12/30/2012 | “Community: Who's In and Who's Out?” John 7:53-8:1
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Roger Lam |
| 12/23/2012 | “Understanding the ”Why" of Christmas”
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Chris Brooks |
| 12/16/2012 | “Preparing for Joy” John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." "What should we do then?" the crowd asked. John answered, "The man who has two tunics should share with one who has none; and the one who has food should do the same." Some even came to be baptized, and they asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?" He replied, "Don't extort more than you are told to extort." Still others asked, "What then should we do?" He answered, "Don't abuse your power or accuse people falsely—be content with your wages."
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 12/09/2012 | “Shocked by His Love” Luke 1:57-66 Now the time for Elizabeth to give birth was completed, and she gave birth to a son. And her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they intended to call him Zechariah, after the name of his father. But his mother answered and said, "No, but he shall be called John." And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives by that name." And they made signs to his father, asking what he wished him to be called. And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, saying, "John is his name." And they all wondered. And immediately his mouth was opened, and his tongue was released, and he spoke, blessing God. And fear came on all who lived around them, and all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea, and all who heard them stored them up in their hearts, saying, "What, then, will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him. And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has looked upon and redeemed his people, and he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the daybreak from on high has visited us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
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Rev. Allen Swanson as Zechariah |
| 12/02/2012 | “When God Speaks From The Desert” In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went to all the country around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’"
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 11/25/2012 | “Submission” James 4:13-17 "Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there, and trade and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance; every such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows the good to do and does not do it, to him it is sin."
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 11/18/2012 | “Build Up The Family of God” Matthew 16:18; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 4:11-12; Romans 12:3-11
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Rev. Roy Tinklenberg |
| 11/11/2012 | “Can you hear him? He is calling your name” "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have scattered you," declares the LORD, "and I will bring you back to the land I drove you from."
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Mrs. Jean Swanson |
| 11/04/2012 | “Testifying to The Gospel of Grace” Act 20:24
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Tariku Fufa |
| 10/28/2012 | “Liberty and Justice for All” Romans 8:1-4,14-15; Galatians 5:1,13
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Elder Kenneth Wang |
| 10/21/2012 | “Family” While he was still speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, asking to speak to him. Someone told him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to see you." But he answered the one who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 10/14/2012 | “A View of Missions From a Navajo” the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the land and shadow of death, light has dawned.
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Rev. Tulley Lee |
| 10/07/2012 | “Prayer: Passive or Persistent?” 8 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 9 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 09/30/2012 | “The Journey to Garden Highway” Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man one might perhaps dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Rev. Paul Tokunaga |
| 09/23/2012 | “The Journey to 19 Minami” Hear my teaching, O my people; listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter hidden truths from of old. The things we have heard and learned— things our ancestors told us— we will not hide from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done. He decreed for Jacob a statute, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach their children, that the next generation might know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn might tell their children. So the next generation would put their hope in God and not forget the deeds of God but keep his commands.
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Rev. Paul Tokunaga |
| 09/16/2012 | “Do you love God?” To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands. I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
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Elder Kenneth Wang |
| 09/09/2012 | “Why doesn't the Lord seem to answer?” Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Vindicate my affliction and redeem me; give me life according to your word! Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim from waiting for my God.
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 09/02/2012 | “I Prayed, But Did He Hear?” Luke 11:5-10; Psalm 35:11-13,22
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 08/26/2012 | “Do Your Part” And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 08/19/2012 | “Living for Eternity Now” Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ephesians 2:8-10
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Rev. CJ Chun |
| 08/12/2012 | “What is your commission?” And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
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Minister Stephen Ko |
| 08/05/2012 | “Gospel Contentment” I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your interest in me; indeed, you were mindful of me before, but you lacked opportunity. I do not speak of being in want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned the secret of both having your bounty and being hungry, both having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Yet it was good of you to share my troubles. You Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared in my dealings with you except you only. To you also in Thessalonica once and again you sent what I needed. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit. I have received full payment, and more. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a welcome sacrifice, well-pleasing to God. And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Rev. Ed Cheng |
| 07/29/2012 | “A Life That Glorifies God” Genesis 41-45
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Ramona Bishop |
| 07/22/2012 | “What Will It Cost You?” Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether in order to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and cannot finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build and could not finish.' Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not first sit down and take counsel, whether he can beat with ten thousand his opponent who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends an embassy and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how will you season it? It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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Minister Stephen Ko |
| 07/15/2012 | “Work” **Hebrew 4:8-13** 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken of another day after that. 9 So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are laid bare before the eyes of him with whom we must give an account.
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 07/08/2012 | “The Prodigal Son” Luke 15:11–32
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Sunny So |
| 07/01/2012 | “Faith of Our Fathers” Galatians 3:26-29; 5:1
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 06/23/2012 | “Forgiven for All Eternity” Part 4: The Apostle's Creed Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha answered, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 06/17/2012 | “No Longer Strangers” Part 3: The Apostle's Creed For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling place for God, by the Spirit.
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 06/10/2012 | “The Basics of Our Faith” 1 Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— 2 and all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel, 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. 10 For am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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Justin Ely |
| 06/03/2012 | “The Lessons of Jezebel” The Revelation 2:18-24
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Elder Ken Wang |
| 5/27/2012 | “Seeing the Kingdom” John 4:1–42
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Nick Johnson |
| 5/20/2012 | “What is The Message?” But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 5/13/2012 | “Jesus and Mary” John 19:26-27; Proverbs 31:28
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Sandra Shaner |
| 5/06/2012 | “Who Do You Say That I am?” Part 2: The Apostle's Creed Matthew 16:13-16; Philippians 2:5-11
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 4/29/2012 | “What Do We Believe?” Part 1: Why a Creed? Who is God? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 4/15/2012 | “Work the Word, and the Word Will Work” All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. For the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
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Sandra Shaner |
| 4/08/2012 | “The Stone Was Rolled Away” When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices with which to anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they went to the tomb. They had been asking each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” But when they looked up, they saw that the huge stone, which was very heavy, had already been rolled aside. When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a pure white robe sitting on the right side. They were startled by this sight, but the young man said to them, “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, here is the place where they laid him. Now go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there,’ just as he told you.” Trembling and bewildered, the women fled the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. After Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. When she went to tell his companions, who were mourning and weeping, they did not believe her.
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Elder Ken Wang |
| 4/01/2012 | “Who did you expect?” The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Blessed is the king of Israel!" Jesus found a young donkey and rode on it, as it is written: "Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt." At first his disciples did not understand these things, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 3/25/2012 | “For Something Better” Matthew 13:44-46; 2 Corinthians 9:7
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 3/18/2012 | “Here and Now” Acts 1:1-11,2:42-47
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Janna Louie |
| 3/11/2012 | “The Lord’s Prayer: The Model Prayer for All Ages” Matthew 6:5-14
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 3/04/2012 | “Broken for Our Healing” Matthew 26:17-30
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 2/26/2012 | “Does God Laugh?” Luke 15:3-24
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Elder Ken Wang |
| 2/19/2012 | “The Hands of a Disciple” Acts 8:26-40
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Rev. David Lee |
| 2/12/2012 | “The Heart of a Disciple” Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village. And a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving. And she came to him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things. But one thing is needful. And Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
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Rev. David Lee |
| 2/05/2012 | “Faith For The Journey” Genesis 12:1-6, 10; Hebrew 11:1,8-13
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
| 1/29/2012 | “Building His House” Psalms 84:10; 1 Peter 2:9
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Rev. CJ Chun |
| 1/22/2012 | “First Things First” Matthew 22:34-40; Psalms 1
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Rev. James Sproull |
| 1/15/2012 | “Who Do You Impress?” Matthew 6:1-2
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 1/08/2012 | “Response” Matthew 21:28-32
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
| 1/01/2012 | “Modern Lessons From Some Wise Men” Matthew 2:1-12
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Rev. Allen Swanson |
