Posts from April 2023
320. Small Adjustment, Big Difference
It was our 15th Wedding Anniversary last Wednesday. Our tradition is to go for a steak dinner. But now, we have one more. A few years ago, I started asking her this simple question, “What are three things I can do to be a greater blessing to you?” on every anniversary. Once she answers, she asks me the same question. It may sound like a small change in our anniversary tradition, but I think it made a big difference in…
319. HC Conference at San Jose
I came back safely from attending House Church (HC) conference in San Jose. I arrived home late Friday, around 2 am due to the time-zone difference. It was a special conference because we were celebrating the 30th year of the beginning of the HC ministry. We had many guests who came from Korea. Many of them were witnesses of how this house church movement grew from its infancy, many years ago. I also felt like one of the witnesses, as…
318. Thought of the Week
I am adding another way to communicate with our church members. It is called “Thought of the week” (TOTW). Pastor blog will continue to be the main communication between me and the congregation. But there have been some things I want to share with the congregation that were too long to be an announcement, but too short to be a blog. So, you can consider my blog to be YouTube and TOTW as YouTube shorts, if that makes sense. I…
317. Enjoying What Was Never Enjoyable
This year’s Daniel Fast was much bearable than before as Jen made some fantastic vegetable dishes which made me forget I was fasting! Even with a busy schedule, Jen always looked for new recipes for vegetable dishes and nailed them each time. There were a few moments we looked at each other and said, “this is excellent!”, temporarily forgetting we were eating vegetables. It dawned on me that what seemed like an impossibility was happening to me. The man who…