Sermon Audio 2017
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Message |
Presenter |
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| 12/31/2017 | “Are You The First?” Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:19; Deuteronomy 6:5; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 |
Elder Ken Wang | |
| 12/24/2017 | “The Wonder of Christmas” Luke 2:1-7 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone went to their own town to register. 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. He went there with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 12/17/2017 | “A Glimpse of Better Things” Isaiah 60 |
Elder Ken Wang | |
| 12/10/2017 | “Finding Christmas” For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done righteousness, but in his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, being justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 12/3/2017 | “Shaken to Fly” Remember the days of old; consider the generations past. Ask your father, and he will tell you; ask your elders, and they will recount to you. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the wasteland of the howling wild. He circled him, he cared for him, he guarded him as the apple of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings and catches them and carries them on its wings. The Lord alone led him, and no foreign god was with him. He made him ride on the heights of the earth, and fed him with the produce of the fields. He made him suck honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag, curds and cream, cattle, and flocks of sheep, and fine wheat The grain of his produce, and the red wine of his grapes. |
Pastor Paul Chang | |
| 11/26/2017 | “The Sovereignty of God and the Reason for Evil” Romans 11:33–36, Deuteronomy 29:29, Lamentations 3:37-38 |
Minister Scott Lilly | |
| 11/19/2017 | “Cultivating Thankfulness” Colossians 2:6-7 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 11/12/2017 | “What Our Actions Say” Hebrews 11:3, 6, 13-14 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 11/05/2017 | “Gospel Root & Fruit” Matthew 13:10–12, 18–23, 31–32, 44–46, and 51–52 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 10/29/2017 | “The righteous shall live by faith!“ – Luther and the Idea That Changed the World For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” And the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield, your very great reward.” But Abram said, “O |
Pastor Allen Swanson | |
| 10/22/2017 | “Surrounded by Faith” Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 10/15/2017 | “All of Me for His Glory” 1 Corinthians 9:19–27 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 10/8/2017 | “Beautiful Things in God’s Sight” (Bear the Fruit of Love) Mark 14:1-9; Psalm 133:1-3; Romans 10:15; Isaiah 52:7 |
Pastor Caleb Huang | |
| 10/1/2017 | “Fruitful Faith” Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all, making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, and whether I am in my chains or defending and confirming the gospel, you all share in God's grace with me. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 9/24/2017 | “A Seasoned Servant” 1 Kings 19:4–18 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 9/17/2017 | “Considering Ourselves Dead” What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no |
Alex Kim | |
| 9/10/2017 | “Obeying” 1 Samuel 15:1-3, 9-31 1 Samuel 15:1-3, 9-31 1 Samuel 15-1-3, 9-31 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 9/3/2017 | “Trusting” Judges 6-8 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 8/27/2017 | “Righteousness” Proverbs 12 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 8/20/2017 | “LESSONS FROM AHITHOPHEL” II SAMUEL 15:30-34 and 16:20-23 |
Pastor Allen Swanson | |
| 8/13/2017 | “Risking Gentleness” When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple. Those who regard useless idols forsake their own Mercy. But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. Then Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day walk. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh will be overthrown!" So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. Now when Jonah heard this, he was exceedingly angry. He prayed to the Lord, and said, "O Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled to Tarshish. For I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness, and You relent from doing harm. Therefore please kill me, for it is better for me to die than my life. But the Lord said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" So Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city. And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head and to relieve his misery. So Jonah was exceedingly glad about the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, God prepared a worm, and it damaged the plant, so that it withered. And it happened, when the sun rose, that God prepared a hot east wind, and the sun beat on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, "It is better for me to die than my life." Then God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "It is right for me to be angry, even to death!" But the Lord said, "You pities the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much livestock?" |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 8/6/2017 | “Rediscovering More Goodness” Luke 12:1-7; Mark 7:24-30 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 7/30/2017 | “Rediscovering Goodness” Psalm 86 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 7/23/2017 | “A Truer Vision of Jesus Christ” I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and steadfastness of Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, saying, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." Then I turned to look at the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching to his feet, and with a golden sash across his chest. The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I hold the keys of death and Hades. Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. |
Minister Hee Sung | |
| 7/16/2017 | “What Patience Bears” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?" Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people, I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved, 'beloved.'" And in the very place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," they will be called sons of the living God. And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with rigor and finality." And just as Isaiah foretold, "If a remnant had not our Lord of hosts left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah." |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 7/9/2017 | “The Dark Side of Joy” When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouths were filled with laughter, and our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them." The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad. Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the watercourses in the Negeb. May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 7/2/2017 | “Free to Flourish” Luke 13:6-9; Matthew 21:18-22; Galatians 5:22-23 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 6/25/2017 | “THE GRACE OF FORGIVENESS” Luke 7:36-50 |
Pastor Allen Swanson | |
| 6/18/2017 | “A Father's Journey” In the time of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah. His wife was Elizabeth, a descendant of Aaron. Both of them were righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly. But they had no children, because Elizabeth was unable to conceive, and they were both getting on in years. One day, while Zechariah’s division was serving, he was performing his priestly |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 6/11/2017 | “Cherish the Word” Psalm 119:11, 47–48, 64, 97, 113, 124, 127, 163, 165 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 6/4/2017 | “The Lost Art of Disciple Making” Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter by it. For narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. 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. |
Elder Bill Ting | |
| 5/28/2017 | “Cherish the Word” Deuteronomy 6:6-9 "And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 5/21/2017 | “Wherever He Leads” From where do wars and fights come among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure, which are at war in your members? You covet and do not have, so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, to spend it on your pleasures. You adulterous people, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. One only is the lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to pass judgment on your neighbor? |
Minister Scott Lilly | |
| 5/14/2017 | “Ever Nearer” Matthew 4:19, 8:22, 9:9, 10:38, 16:24, 19:21, 28 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 5/7/2017 | “He Who Leads” The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 4/30/2017 | “Be Good Friends with the Lord” This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I do not call you servants any longer, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, because everything I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is what I command you: Love one another. "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning." |
Pastor Caleb Huang | |
| 4/23/2017 | “Dry?” A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, seeing your power |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 4/16/2017 | “Christ Arose!” He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be foremost. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 4/9/2017 | “Passionate Praise” At first, his disciples did not understand these things. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 4/2/2017 | “True Worship” Psalm 100 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 3/26/2017 | “The Transformation” Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Let love be genuine. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord with all your heart. Do not be idle in your hope, but be joyful and patient in your troubles. Be faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people |
Elder Ken Wang | |
| 3/19/2017 | “Loving Our New Neighbors” Luke 10:25-37 |
Missionary Tom Engelsman | |
| 3/12/2017 | “Cry Out!” John 17 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 3/5/2017 | “Cry desperately!” 9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I earn.’ 13 But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his chest and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ 14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 2/26/2017 | “Heartbeat” Genesis 42-45 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 2/19/2017 | “The Key to the Kingdom” Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he departed into Galilee. And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying: The land of Zabulon and the land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: and they that have sitten in the region and shadow of death, light is arisen unto them. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. |
Pastor Allen Swanson | |
| 2/12/2017 | “Our Beautiful Hope” For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all people. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. These, then, are the things you should teach, encourage, and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone take your youth lightly. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 2/5/2017 | “Eyes of Faith” Hebrews 11 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 1/28/2017 | “Does God Know You?” "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of the heavens, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and drive out demons in your name and perform many miracles in your name?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law. |
Minister Scott Lilly | |
| 1/22/2017 | “In the Gospel” Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:1-4 |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 1/15/2017 | “In Christ” I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you will be thrown away like a withered branch and become withered and just as they are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you will ask for anything you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 1/8/2017 | “In His Word“ Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word. Let my plea come before you; deliver me according to your promise. My lips will pour out praise, for you teach me your statutes. My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. Let your hand be my help, for I have chosen your precepts. I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight. Let my soul live, and it will praise you; let your ordinances help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments. |
Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 1/1/2017 | “Take Root and Bear Fruit“ "Have you not heard how I ordained it long ago? I planned it in ages past. Now I have brought it about, that you should be used to destroy fortified cities and turn them into heaps of rubble. Therefore their inhabitants, drained of strength, were dismayed and ashamed; they became like the grass of the field, like the new growth on the grass, like grass on the roof, scorched before it has grown. But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me. Because you have raged against me and your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back the way you came. And this will be the sign for you: This year eat what springs up from the ground, and next year eat what grows from that. But the year after that, you may sow and reap your harvests, and you may plant vineyards and eat their fruit. Once more the people of Judah who escape will take root below and bear fruit above. For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. He will push spears through your flanks and through the flanks of your attackers, and he will turn back your devastating hordes. But my love for you will never cease, says the Lord, my compassion will never run out. I will be gracious to you, just as I was to your ancestors. I will not allow the children of Israel to be destroyed. I am the Lord, your healer. He will cause their attackers to fall by the sword, and those who mock his people will be crushed. And the enemies of my people will be utterly destroyed." |
Rev. Eric Chang |
