Pastor’s Corner – September 29, 2024
Spiritual Salt for Seasoning Mark 9:38-50 Growing up in South Korea as a child, we didn’t have much, things like telephone, television, and refrigerator. These are of course basic necessities […]
Spiritual Salt for Seasoning Mark 9:38-50 Growing up in South Korea as a child, we didn’t have much, things like telephone, television, and refrigerator. These are of course basic necessities […]
Who is the Greatest? Mark 9:30-37 The gospel reading for this Sunday again foreshadows Jesus’ death and resurrection, the revelation of the great mystery of faith in our liturgy, “Christ […]
Mark 8:27-38 The Turning Point Spoiler alert! If you haven’t seen the Korean film Parasite that won both the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020 and the Palme d’Or at the […]
Mark 7:24-37 One of the reasons why the gospel of Mark is my favorite among other gospels is because of the rawness of the narrative with no sweet coating. There […]
Finding Peace in Your Heart Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 In 1966, the Trappist monk Thomas Merton met the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and asked him what he had learned […]
Putting on the Armor of God Ephesians 6:10-20 I don’t know about you but I’ve been enjoying the DNC’s speeches all this week with messages of hope and future. It’s […]
Transfer of Power I Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 Since we’ve meditated on the Bread theme the past three Sundays, I want to focus on the Old Testament reading, and shed light on the […]
John 6:35, 41-51 Growing up as a pastor’s kid, my dad would often take me to one of his regular church members’ home visitations. It’s customary in these visits that as […]
Our Daily Bread and More John 6:24-35 Last Sunday, I was given a copy of Our Daily Bread and More, a cookbook published sometime in the late 1980s by our church as […]
For the past few Sundays, we’ve witnessed Jesus and his disciples going from village after village, engaging in healing ministry. The crowd that followed him grew, and the news about […]