tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43692976561027913662011-08-30T01:32:52.760-04:00"Win our generation and prepare the next"Pastor Dannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416881368591441191noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369297656102791366.post-86848863706957476162009-11-11T15:46:00.002-05:002009-11-11T16:06:17.379-05:00

We are surely living in an unusual time. I am not talking about the recession. I am talking about something far more significant. We live in a time of unprecedented immorality. Now, for example premarital sex is norm. One who wants to keep pure before marriage feel they must defend their choice philosophically! Otherwise, they would be viewed as strange. Young teenagers regularly send

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Once Mahatma Gandhi said, "There go my people. I must go ahead of them, for I am their leader." At some point in his leadership, he felt that his people not only understood where he was pointing them to, but they were running ahead of him. I feel the same way these days. I see a number of people running ahead of me. I see people who run more zealously after God and love others more

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JAMA New Awakening Conference originally started with college students and professionals as its core constituents. Although the first conference in 1996 in Colorado focused on this group, over the years the conference became more and more youth and family centered. As result, college and professionals have lost interested in the NA conference; they do not feel attracted to primarily youth

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That was the news from last week. Murmur of economic recovery is everywhere. Everyday more hopeful news come out. Is the trouble over? Not according to Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, the trouble we are in now is because of our sin: sin of corporate corruption, sin of violence, sin of sexual immorality, sins that fill and overflow in our land. The trouble we are in is God's judgment

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For years I have tried to have the JOY family to get into the Scriptures. While many have take extraordinary steps to consume the word of God (for example, Jacob Chung's group finishing the Bible in a year), I suspect that the vast majority are not even reading the Bible regularly.During summer, I would like to provide you with some devotional help.I. Each day you will receive a simple devotional

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For years I have tried to have the JOY family to get into the Scriptures. While many have take extraordinary steps to consume the word of God (for example, Jacob Chung's group finishing the Bible in a year), I suspect that the vast majority are not even reading the Bible regularly.During summer, I would like to provide you with some devotional help.I. Each day you will receive a simple devotional

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I have been encouraged by our people. The response to the 40 days of Repair Your Altar has been enthusiastic. Several have come up to me immediately after the launch and said something like, "I have been wanting to restore my spiritual life, but did not know what to do. I am so excited about the 40 days because we can do it together." Those responses tell me that our people have spiritual

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Someone shared yesterday about a vision (a mental picture) one of his TLC members had last Sunday. In the vision the member saw a group of people, some of them JOY members, standing in a fellowship setting. Then, a fog came and surrounded them. Out of the fog came out tentacles that separated people from each other. The fog represented a spirit of confusion that comes over people that

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The ball is rolling. In February JOY passed the bylaw and affirmed the decision to go forward with the eldership. After getting the board's input, I have selected the nominating committee. We decided to choose five members so that the burden would not fall on few shoulders but shared broadly. At the same time, we did not want the number to be too big thus causing the process to consume too

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For the first time in Bergen County Asian-American history, seven churches have been gathering every Friday for praise and prayer during this Lent season, moving from one church to another. The Bible and history demonstrate two elements are necessary for revival--unity and prayer--and through the joint prayer, we are trying to accomplish exactly that. Although the overall participation is

Pastor Dannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416881368591441191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369297656102791366.post-61364149274845840762009-03-19T20:54:00.002-04:002009-03-19T21:28:08.921-04:00

I am preparing to launch JOY's third site in Manhattan. For those who wonder why we would want to do that, I write this blog entry. A year and a half ago, we began looking for a second site to provide room for growth. That search led to the Edgewater Site. However, what began as a simple search for physical room to grow led to a total paradigm shift of how we would do church. As the

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In 1991 the seemingly impossible happened. The feared, powerful Soviet Empire collapsed in a nearly less revolution. Only after the seemingly impossible took place, the facts began to emerge for the general public. The Soviet System was dysfunctional and had been crumbling for decades. The collapse created a panic throughout the Soviet state.But for Christians, the collapse of the evil

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We live in the most fearful of our lifetime. We feel a heavy, dark cloud hang over us. Most of us are doing OK. We still have our jobs, and houses, but the fear is palpable: "Am I next? Will I be OK?"As we face these dark times, I want to share with you a few truths. 1. Do not fear the unknown future. Remember that God has already gone ahead of you into your future and waits for you. There

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This Sunday we will take a congregational vote on the bylaws. This is a big step and according has raised significant jitters. The core of the fear concerns eldership. Most people have witnessed bad eldership cases where churches have split, and many question, "Do we need to have elders," "Are we ready to have elders," or "Is anyone ready to become an elder?" Why do we need eldership? Much

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2009 started 26 days ago, so this entry is very overdue. In this entry, I want to lay out the theme and main goals of 2009 for our church. We--the church--prayed for a month in 2008 and felt that the theme for 2009 would be "Hope to the Hopeless." It is a phrase from Chris Tomlin's song "God of the City." The message of hope would have largely two dimensions: First, God is our hope. We will

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This will be a long entry. I hope you will read through. Peter Shin and I embarked on a scouting trip to Zimbabwe on Jan 9. Our goal was to investigate the possibility of developing a long-term (10-20 years) partnership with a local pastor, Tatenda Gonguow, in holistic mission, that is, a community development via education, job-creation as well as preaching the gospel and care of orphans.

Pastor Dannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416881368591441191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369297656102791366.post-44427912244876905112008-10-02T09:07:00.003-04:002008-10-02T09:18:54.558-04:00

Eight people from JOY are leaving for NK this afternoon: Carrie Choi, Jacob Chung, Julie Chung, John Hwang, Jeanie Kwon, Mihae Song, Soo Bae and Jason Suh. They will minister at an orphanage in PyongYang and also do some medical missions. As of now, John Hwang does not have his visa, so please pray for that.On the other hand, there is a free concert at Manhattan School of Music (corner of

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You may have heard about the frog experiment. A frog, if thrown into boiling water, will immediately jump out and incur no harm, but placed inside a kettle with small fire underneath will be cooked to its own death, while feeling no pain. This experiment is a lesson on the slow decline of a person, or a community: If shocked into sharp decline, one saves oneself, but decline done slowly will

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My hair began to turn gray. First one here and one there, and my kids loved to pull them out. It was a great pastime. Then, gray began to come out in multitudes. I had to tell them, "Sorry to stop your fun, but you have to stop pulling them out, or your dad will turn bald." A few weeks ago, my gray hair began to bother me. I think I am going through my midlife crisis. It bugged me to the

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We are living in an exciting time. The testimonies we hear on Sundays are astounding--healing from emotional wounds of many years, liberation from suicidal spirit to giddy joy, prophetic words that breaks open closed hearts, etc. And these things are happening regularly now. We are almost living the Book of Acts. We are grateful.At the same time, great challenges have come upon several. Near

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A few weeks ago I spoke on "False Assurance of Salvation." Since then I asked people to send me questions about the sermon and I would respond. Two questions came. First was about clarification of the necessity to bear spiritual fruit: "Unless your life bears spiritual fruit, you are probably not saved." Answer: The statement was made to address false assurance of salvation. In short, "just

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There is an increase of activities of the Holy Spirit at JOY. At the same time some people have mentioned how they have experienced increased level of spiritual attacks, whether in the forms of direct attack such as "physical" oppression (choking sensation with a clear presence of a demon/s) or through people's criticism or opposition. When such attacks come, those who are inexperienced can get

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Scott Jough was hit by lightening last week during vacation in Mass. He survived. Fortunately, the lightening was not a direct hit. It hit the ground, traveled and hit Scott near his shoulder, went through his organs and went out of his leg. Scott remembers nothing. He was instantaneously knocked unconscious. He suffered no organ damage and will be released within a day or two. The family

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Andy was a homosexual. Annette was ually abused as a . Now they are married and leading a ministry dedicated to bringing healing in ual and relational brokenness. It is called Desert Stream.If one area exists where probably just about everyone is broken, it is uality, my seminary professor once said. The brokenness is manifested not only in conspicuous things like homosexuality

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I am in Kansas City, praying for a couple of weeks. Julie, my beau, and I came here right after JAMA Conference on July 4th. We went straight from the airport (Eddie picked us up) to Bob Hartley's house. He was having a 4th of July party. By the time we arrived, the party was well on the way. About 30 s and children sat in the backyard, thanking God for independence. As I put my foot

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Last week I shared about being broken and letting the light of Christ shine. Today's thought is a further reflection on the same theme.One common struggle among Christians is jealousy. It could be jealousy over a another's Gucci handbag, a better car, a more successful career or even "better" children. As I shared last week pastors are not immune to the same poison of jealousy. If another

Pastor Dannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416881368591441191noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369297656102791366.post-61794052198216579612008-06-13T12:37:00.003-04:002008-06-16T08:01:27.327-04:00

About a month ago I saw a vision in my prayer. I was praying that God would break me. I knew that I was full of my ego, concerns for my success, my appearance before others, etc., so I was asking God to break me. While I prayed, I saw a small metal ball (the ball had a metal covering, not full of metal), which I recognized to represent me. I asked God, "Lord, break it. Crush it." As I

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I sat in a room full of strangers. Over a hundred people I have never known before. An odd sensation came over me. Who are they? What are they? I could not connect. I felt even if they all died, it would make no difference to me.One phenomenon of the (post-)modern age is that we are trained to see people as tools. If you are a store owner, when someone walks in, that person looks like a

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When we encounter difficulties or disappointments, we usually deplore. “Why?” It may be the loss of a job, relationship, or sickness. We consider a hardship a curse. God views hardships differently though. For God, hardships are necessary tools to mold a person for a greater purpose for the long haul. While we live with short-term views, God works with long views. We want to have

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I love to build. What I build is the church. I love to think about how to build the church, get strategies from God, bring right people together, and execute and finally see the building rise. There is great joy in building. And what I build is the Kingdom of God!However, God reminds me there is something more important than building even the church. That is the heart. At the bottom, is my

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Would you like to be great? The phrase "a man after [God's] own heart" which refers to King David is a for every follower of Christ, but many people do not know the context in which this phrase was spoken. This phrase was first spoken by Prophet Samuel to King Saul, whom David later replaced: "Your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed

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Myanmar happened. But my heart was not moved. One of the disadvantages of information world is that we get information-overload. We hear the bad news from all over the world ALL THE TIME. The effects are: despair (it's too much) and debilitation (does what we do make any difference?). Besides, Myanmar was far away.My perception changed only when I received Eliza's email: that we can make a

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Last week I received an email from a JOY member. She said she was happy to hear me talk about "Reclaiming Friday Night for God." (For many Christians, Fri. had become a night of hanging out and even going out drinking We are reclaiming it as a night of worship and intercession.) She said she had been troubled by the worldly behavior of JOY members. One time, she mentioned, a TLC leader joked

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Beloved,I have decided to send out a weekly letter (at least try). So much is happening, and I do not have time to share everything on Sunday. I also wanted to share what God is revealing to me, and let that be an encouragement to you during the week.War and VictoryThis past week as I read through Numbers and Deuteronomy, I felt God highlight the theme of war. Numb 31:1, God commands Moses, “

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