TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 1, 2025

Our New Year Anchor

Today January 1, 2025

Happy New Year and welcome to your mid-week!

This New Year, just like last year, promises to hold so many surprises. In the midst of such uncertainty God gives us his promises through Jesus Christ - promises of heaven, eternity, and the resurrection. The bible tells us that, in light of the ups and downs of this world, these promises in Christ should be

our anchor.

Why put our hope in the promises of Christ? Because, God has shown himself to be faithful to keep his promises. The three big ones: His word, His Spirit, and the coming Messiah.

God promised that his word would endure. Despite attempts to suppress it and outlaw it and destroy it, it has endured and continues to do so.

God promised us the gift of the Holy Spirit. Since Acts 2 the Holy Spirit continues to indwell in believers, continuing to convict us of sin, guide and teach us, empower our witness, intercede on behalf of us in prayer, comfort us and encourage us, and produce the Godly fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

God promised us the Messiah. Despite the statistical miracle for one man to fulfill all the prophecies of the Messiah in the Old Testament, God sent us one that did.

Promises made. Promises kept.

And the bible tells us that his faithfulness to keep his promises should do two things. It should remind us that God does not lie, and it should be an encouragement to us as we await the fulfillment of his future promises.

In the midst of the ups and downs and surprises that every year brings, it is that anchor that we should hold on to as we enter this New Year.

God’s blessing upon you as you meditate on our anchor in Christ and the New Year, and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

- Rev. Frank Kim

Youtube link from last Sunday’s worship: HERE

Cell Group Discussion: HERE

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Announcements

• Jan 11 (Sat) – Saturday Early Morning Prayer New Year Service

• Jan 11 (Sat) – YP Small Group

• Jan 19 (Sun) – EM Ladies Tea, 12:45pm

• February 21 (Fri) – Women’s Bible Study

• Audio and Praise Team Volunteers Needed!

  Those interested please fill out an application found in the back and give it to Esther

• Education Volunteers Needed!

  The Ministry of Education is recruiting teachers and volunteers who are dedicated to faith education for the next generation. For more details, please contact the department pastors or the church office. (Pre-K, Elementary, Youth)

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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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 26, 2024

Family Reunion

Today December 26, 2024

Merry Christmas and welcome to your mid-week!

The nativity scene is a reminder of many things.

It reminds us of God’s faithfulness in fulfilling His promises

It reminds us of the humility of Christ

It reminds us of the hope that entered a dark and broken world that first Christmas night, a hope that still shines today, offering peace and joy to all who believe

And it also reminds us of

the family reunion God invites us to.

For, in the birth of the Prince of Peace, we had Mary and Joseph, Shepherds, and Magi coming to see the newborn king. We had good Jews, bad Jews, and Gentiles coming to see the newborn king.

And all those groups were welcomed.

What’s more is that the act to reconcile those groups together just foreshadows the great family reunion we will have in heaven, where the great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language will be at the wedding feast of the Lamb.

What an amazing family reunion because of the humility and self-sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

But his act of reconciliation also reminds us that, as Christ followers, we need to be agents of reconciliation as well. We need to be peacemakers. We need to reconcile relationships, extend the same grace we received, invite others to join the family of God, and to proclaim the good news of great joy that the angels proclaimed to the shepherds.

If we think about it…

We all know people like the shepherds

We all know people like the Magi

We all know people like Joseph and Mary

And, as Christ did for us, so we need to do for them.

That family reunion is the hope and challenge that the nativity scene reminds us of each Christmas. And so,

Merry Christmas!

God’s blessing upon you as you meditate on the nativity scene and the family reunion that it represents and challenges us to show, and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

- Rev. Frank Kim

Youtube link from last Sunday’s worship: HERE

Cell Group Discussion: HERE

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Announcements

• Ordination Service for Elders & Deacons

  The ordination service for the newly elected officers from the recent congregational meeting will be held during the 2nd service next Sunday, December 29. Please pray for the new servants of the gospel and the church as they are commissioned to their roles.

• Jan 11 (Sat) – Saturday Early Morning Prayer New Year Service

• Jan 11 (Sat) – YP Small Group

• Jan 19 (Sun) – EM Ladies Tea, 12:45pm

• February 21 (Fri) – Women’s Bible Study

• Audio and Praise Team Volunteers Needed!

  Those interested please fill out an application found in the back and give it to Esther

• Education Volunteers Needed!

  The Ministry of Education is recruiting teachers and volunteers who are dedicated to faith education for the next generation. For more details, please contact the department pastors or the church office. (Pre-K, Elementary, Youth)

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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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 18, 2024

Peacemakers

Today December 18, 2024

Welcome to your mid-week!

At the heart of the battle of the flesh is the question of what do we truly need. Do we need to satisfy our desires? Do we need to satisfy our desire

to be in control

to be respected

to be recognized

to be rewarded

to see judgment done on those we view as guilty?

Do we need to satisfy our desire

to keep our position

to keep our possessions

to keep our birthright

to be loved the way we want to be loved?

Is that what we need OR are our desires just the symptoms of our need for God?

This is the question that Apostle James gives us in his letter to the church. And God’s response shows us his answer. For, God is not like Santa Clause - he who gives us our desires if we are good -

No.

What God does is see our true need and step into the battle raging within us to give us peace. This is the reason we celebrate Christmas. It is God’s plan put into action to bring peace to all of mankind through his son, Jesus Christ.

For those of us who have experienced God’s peace—who understand that fulfilling our desires never brings lasting peace, but that true peace is found only in Christ—it is His example of humility and self-sacrifice that we must emulate as we strive to be His peacemakers.

For, as Jesus said:

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”

God’s blessing upon you as you meditate on ‘our desires’ vs ‘our need for God’, and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

- Rev. Frank Kim

Youtube link from last Sunday’s worship: HERE

Cell Group Discussion: HERE

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Announcements

• Dec 18 (Wed) - YP Small Group

• TFPC Christmas Concert

  Celebrate the birth of baby Jesus with joyful praise at the TFPC Christmas Concert, featuring a united choir and performances by children from the Education Ministry. The concert will be held on Friday, December 20, at 7:30 PM in the main sanctuary. We encourage everyone to join in this festive event.

• Dec 25 (Wed) – Christmas Service, 10:30am

• Audio and Praise Team Volunteers Needed!

  Those interested please fill out an application found in the back and give it to Esther

• Education Volunteers Needed!

  The Ministry of Education is recruiting teachers and volunteers who are dedicated to faith education for the next generation. For more details, please contact the department pastors or the church office. (Pre-K, Elementary, Youth)

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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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 11, 2024

If you plan to attend the December 14th EM Christmas Dinner, please RSVP HERE

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Losers

Today December 11, 2024

Welcome to your mid-week!

In his letter to Timothy, Apostle Paul is still talking about who he was before Christ. And to hear Apostle Paul talk about how he is ‘the worst of sinners’ - how ‘I am’ and not ‘I was’ - shows that Apostle Paul is keeping his past in the forefront of his mind.

But why?

Apostle Paul knows about the forgiveness we have in Christ Jesus. I mean, he would write to the church of Romans:

Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

And so, why is Apostle Paul still talking about what happened 30 years ago?

Because, to fully apprehend God’s grace, one’s past sins needs to be present. One’s past is an essential companion, so to speak, in comprehending the fullness of God’s grace. This is why Apostle Paul is still talking about who he was 30 years before; why he is embracing his spiritual loser past.

Because, in doing so, not only is he experiencing the grace of God more presently, but his choice naturally leads to him worshipping to the Lord.

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

God’s blessing upon you as you mediate on what it means to be a spiritual loser because of sin, and what it means to be victorious in Christ, and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

- Rev. Frank Kim

Youtube link from last Sunday’s worship: HERE

Cell Group Discussion: HERE

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Announcements

• Dec 14 (Sat) – EM Christmas Dinner – White Elephant

  Saturday, Dec 14. 5:30pm at the Fellowship Hall. Dinner and White Elephant gift exchange. $20 per family.

• Newcomers’ Welcome Event

  The final newcomers’ welcome event for 2024 will be held on Sunday, December 15, at 1:15 PM in the Rodem Chapel on the 2nd floor of the Education Building. All newcomers who registered between August 11 and December 15, 2024, are invited.

• TFPC Christmas Concert

  Celebrate the birth of baby Jesus with joyful praise at the TFPC Christmas Concert, featuring a united choir and performances by children from the Education Ministry. The concert will be held on Friday, December 20, at 7:30 PM in the main sanctuary. We encourage everyone to join in this festive event.

• Dec 18 (Wed) - YP Small Group

• Audio and Praise Team Volunteers Needed!

  Those interested please fill out an application found in the back and give it to Esther

• Education Volunteers Needed!

  The Ministry of Education is recruiting teachers and volunteers who are dedicated to faith education for the next generation. For more details, please contact the department pastors or the church office. (Pre-K, Elementary, Youth)

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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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 4, 2024

If you plan to attend the December 14th EM Christmas Dinner, please RSVP HERE

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Winners

Today December 4, 2024

Welcome to your mid-week!

Satan is called our ‘enemy’ in the bible for a reason.

He will remind us of our past sins and failures and short comings, suggesting they disqualify us from God’s love.

He will say - because of our current difficulties - God has abandoned us or that His promises won’t come true.

He will sow doubt about our salvation, making us question if we’re truly forgiven.

Or, he will try to isolate us, making us feel abandoned or unloved, especially in times of hardship or silence from God. He will equate God’s love with our circumstances saying ‘If God really loved you, then this bad thing wouldn’t have happened.”

Satan is our enemy.

But this is why God gives us the word of God which is the sword of the Spirit

This is why God gives us prayer which will help us to resist the lies of the enemy.

This is why God gives us the church to encourage us and remind us of God’s truth when we are spiritually weak.

And what is God’s truth? The truth is

We are accepted

We are secure

We are loved

I mean, think about it.

To be made children of God. To be made co-heirs with Christ. To have our bodies redeemed, our prayers heard, and to have glory awaits? For Apostle Paul, these lavish gifts of God show God’s heart toward us. I mean, so great a love God has for us that Apostle Paul would write these words:

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

And, when we embrace this truth, then truly we can come to the same conclusion of Apostle Paul:

“If God is for us, who can be against us?”

God’s blessing upon you as you mediate on what it means to be a winner in Christ Jesus, and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

- Rev. Frank Kim

Youtube link from last Sunday’s worship: HERE

Cell Group Discussion: HERE

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Announcements

• Dec 14 (Sat) – EM Christmas Dinner – White Elephant

  Saturday, Dec 14. 5:30pm at the Fellowship Hall. Dinner and White Elephant gift exchange. $20 per family.

• Dec 18 (Wed) - YP Small Group

• Audio and Praise Team Volunteers Needed!

  Those interested please fill out an application found in the back and give it to Esther

• Education Volunteers Needed!

  The Ministry of Education is recruiting teachers and volunteers who are dedicated to faith education for the next generation. For more details, please contact the department pastors or the church office. (Pre-K, Elementary, Youth)

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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