TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - MARCH 13, 2024

The Importance of Authentic Faith

Today is March 13, 2024

Welcome to your mid-week!

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been away on vacation and our new Youth Pastor - Pastor Moses Rim - has been preaching in my stead. And this past Sunday he preached on the importance of having an authentic faith.

Speaking of the two blind men who were healed by Jesus in Matthew 9, Pastor Moses said,

“It seems that these men were not truly spiritually transformed and changed by Jesus. Yes, the miracle happened. Yes, they’re ecstatic with joy. But did something change in the inside of them? Did they repent before Jesus? Do they truly consider Jesus to be the Messiah over their lives? No. They got healed, they were excited, and they went spreading the news about their miracle. [For them] It’s not about Jesus being Christ, it’s about their own miracle.”

And from their bad example, Pastor Moses challenged us with what God really wants from us:

“Jesus wants a lasting relationship with people after the problem is solved after the healing comes…”

Sometimes in the midst of all the distractions and videos and stories and shorts and commentaries out there about what we are supposed to be doing as Christians and what God wants for us to do, we forget that simple foundational truth:

God wants relationship with us.

God’s blessing as you think about how your relationship with God is, and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

- Rev. Frank Kim

Youtube link from last Sunday's Worship: HERE

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Announcements

• Baptism Class will be held THIS Sunday right after the 11:30am service

• Membership Class 3 will be held THIS Sunday at 1pm in the EM Chapel

Ministry Calendar

• Mar 17 (Sun) - Baptism Class, 12:30pm

• Mar 17 (Sun) - Membership Class 3

• Mar 24 (Sun) - Make-up Membership Class

• March 24 (Sun) - Palm Sunday

• March 29 (Fri) - Good Friday - Joint with Youth in the EM Chapel, 7:30pm

• March 31 (Sun) – Easter – Joint Worship

Finance Office Announcement

For Online Offering (found HERE) please make sure to select 'English Ministry' and to scroll down and type in where you would want your offering to go in the 'Note / memo' area.   

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