TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 31, 2018

The Next Mountain

Today is October 31, 2018

Welcome to your mid-week!

In Matthew 10, the disciples were empowered by Jesus to cast out demons. In Matthew 17, they were unable to cast out a demon. 6 chapters of empowerment and then suddenly nothing. What changed? Their faith. 

In Matthew 16, the disciples' faith were shaken when their expectations of what Jesus was suppose to do was not met. This shaken faith was shown in their inability to cast our a demon in Matthew 17.

Jesus' response was to rebuke his disciples. In Matthew 17, Jesus calls them an "unbelieving and perverse generation." The disciples had twisted the words of Jesus into what they wanted and, when what they wanted did not happen, they lost faith. They were not concerned with Godly things but with human things and, as a result, they were faced with a metaphorical mountain that seemed impossible to cross.

Jesus' lesson? To hold on to faith. With just a little faith you can do the most difficult things. Just as mountains were moved before, so the next mountain will be moved in the future. All it takes is a little faith in what Jesus has already empowered you to do.

And that is our challenge. 

If we look back at our lives we will see many different mountains and challenges that we thought, at the time, were impossible to cross. And yet, through it all, we see the faithfulness of God as we overcame each mountain.

Sometimes God did not meet our expectations. Sometimes mountains came when we least expected them too. Sometimes mountains were self inflicted. Sometimes mountains were needed to make us better. 

But, no matter how big or impossible those mountains seemed, God was always faithful.

And, as God has been faithful and good and has empowered us to move forward past these various mountains, so God will be faithful and good and will empower us in whatever mountain we currently face and whatever mountains we will face in the future. 

So then, in whatever impossible mountain you face, hold on to your faith and you will be able to move past that next mountain.

God blessings upon you this week and I look forward to seeing you all this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

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Upcoming Events

• Oct 31 (Wed) – Harvest Festival. TODAY! Dinner & Registration at 5:45pm. 
• Nov 4 (Sun) – Daylights Savings. THIS SUNDAY! Don't forget to turn your clocks 1 hr back before you go to bed on Saturday.
• Nov 4 (Sun) - TFPC EM Members Meeting [Postponed till Further Notice]
• Nov 7 (Wed) – All Generation Apologetics Study Cell Group. Topic: ‘The Reliability of the Gospels, Pt 1’
• Nov 11,18, Dec 9 (Sun) - New Members Classes
• Nov 18 (Sun) – Thanksgiving Lunch
• Nov 25 (Sun) - TFPC Ping Pong Doubles Tournament 1:30pm-3:30pm
• Nov 30-Dec 2 (Fri-Sun) - Joint Mexico Mission with KM
  • Training begins Nov 4 (Sun) THIS SUNDAY. 12:45pm @ ELIM
• Dec 16 (Sun) - New Members Welcome Dinner

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Lamentations 3:23 - "They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 24, 2018

Shuddering Faith

Today is October 24, 2018

Welcome to your mid-week!

In James 2, James talks about faith and action. He's not talking about salvation. He's talking about Christian maturity. And what does a mature Christian do? A mature Christian shows

mercy and compassion 

on all people. A mature Christian does give judgement, even though they might deserve it. Instead, a mature Christian meets their need. As Jesus did with the immoral Samaritan woman; as Jesus did with the gentile demon possessed man, so should we. If we are mature Christians then we need to show

mercy and compassion.

If we don't then, by James' account, we are no better than demons. In fact, if we do not show 

mercy and compassion

than we are worse than demons because at least demons fear God. So then, our challenge is clear: to not judge or to condemn but to meet the physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual needs of those around us.

God blessing upon you as you wrestle with this challenge and I look forward to seeing you all this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

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Upcoming Events

• Oct 31 (Wed) – Harvest Festival. 6:20pm-8:30pm
  • Children’s Ministry is asking for candy donations. Please deliver them to Children’s Department by Oct 28
• Nov 4 (Sun) – Daylights Savings. Don't forget to turn your clocks 1 hr back before you go to bed on Saturday.
• Nov 4 (Sun) - TFPC EM Members Meeting
• Nov 7 (Wed) – All Generation Apologetics Study Cell Group. Topic: ‘The Reliability of the Gospels, Pt 1’
• Nov 11,18, Dec 9 (Sun) - New Members Classes
• Nov 18 (Sun) – Thanksgiving Lunch
• Nov 25 (Sun) - TFPC Ping Pong Doubles Tournament 1:30pm-3:30pm
• Nov 30-Dec 2 (Fri-Sun) - Joint Mexico Mission with KM
  • Training begins Nov 4 (Sun). 12:45pm @ ELIM
• Dec 16 (Sun) - New Members Welcome Dinner

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Matthew 9:13 - But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 17, 2018

More Than Legions

Today is October 17, 2018

Welcome to your mid-week!

When Jesus restored a demon-possessed man in Mark 5 he was doing more than a simple exorcism. He was teaching us about the power of his love for us. 

The demon possessed man was living in a tomb, in gentile country, surrounded by pigs, the most unclean environment for a Jewish man. Not just that, but he was most likely bleeding from the cuts he self inflicted, and was filthy having run naked in the hills both day and night. Oh, and on top of that, he was possessed. Not just by one demon but by a legion of demons.

This man was the most dirtiest man in the most dirtiest location being controlled by thousands of demons, and Jesus took a 4-6 mile boat ride across the sea and went into this gentile, foreign country to save him. 

That's the power of his love. The same love he has for us.

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I think, sometimes, we feel the sin in our lives is too big. Or that the sinful influences around us are too great. Maybe we are experiencing demonic influences or evil spiritual attacks where we feel that our own actions seem to be out of our control. Maybe we are facing physical or emotional or spiritual consequences to those forces and we think, I'm too lost; too far gone; too dirty to change.

Well, the restoration of the demon possessed man in Mark 5 is there to tell you that Jesus is bigger; that he is more powerful than whatever demon influences or spiritual attacks you are facing. That Jesus comes to where we are - at our most dirtiest moments - and says there is hope and freedom.

Paul tells us about the power of Jesus' love for us in Romans 8 telling us that

Romans 8:38-39 
...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.

That is what Jesus showed the demon-possessed man in Mark 5, and that is what he shows us now.

Our challenge is to do what the demon-possessed man wanted  to do when he was restored to life. And that is to follow Jesus.

God's blessing upon you and I look forward to seeing you all this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

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Upcoming Events

• Oct 18 (Thurs) – YMF Cell Group. 6:45pm
• Oct 21 (Sun) – PV Cell Group
• Oct 31 (Wed) – Harvest Festival. 6pm-8pm
• Nov 4 (Sun) – Daylights Savings
• Nov 4 (Sun) - TFPC EM Members Meeting
• Nov 7 (Wed) – All Generation Apologetics Study Cell Group. Topic: ‘The Reliability of the Gospels, Pt 1’
• Nov 11,18, Dec 9 (Sun) - New Members Classes
• Nov 18 (Sun) – Thanksgiving Lunch
• Nov 25 (Sun) - TFPC Ping Pong Doubles Tournament 1:30pm-3:30pm
• Nov 30-Dec 2 (Fri-Sun) - Joint Mexico Mission with KM
  • Registration begins Sept 23 (Sun), Last Day to Register is THIS SUNDAY! [Extended]
  • Training begins Oct 28 (Sun)
• Dec 16 (Sun) - New Members Welcome Dinner

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Volunteers Needed!

Harvest Festival

• Volunteers needed for Oct 21 (1pm-1:30pm), Oct 28 (1pm-4pm), & Oct 31 (6pm-8pm). Please sign-up at the back of church and check the time(s) you’ll be able to commit to.
• Children’s Ministry is also asking for candy donations. Please deliver them to Children’s Department by Oct 28

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  Titus 3:4-5a - "But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy."

TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Importance of Communion

Today is October 10, 2018

Welcome to your mid-week!

This past Sunday we celebrated World Communion Sunday as a church by having a joint worship together with the KM, Youth, and Elementary in the Main Chapel. We had a praise team made up of all ministries that led us in praise in both English and Korean, we danced a little to one of the popular VBS songs of the summer, and we had communion as one church.

For the message, our new Elementary pastor and our Head Pastor both preached on the importance of communion. Communion reminds us of what Jesus did for us, challenges us to love each other now as he did then, and gives us all hope to his coming. 

Sacrifice, love, and hope. That's what communion teaches us; a sacrament that unites us all and is something we should do more.

God's blessing upon you as you mediate on Jesus broken body and blood spilled for you, and I look forward to seeing you all this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

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Upcoming Events

• Oct 13 (Sat) - PV and CPG Mixer @ the Gills. Carpool leaves at 2pm from church.
• Oct 18 (Thurs) – YMF Cell Group. 6:45pm
• Nov 4 (Sun) - TFPC EM Members Meeting
• Nov 11,18, Dec 9 (Sun) - New Members Classes
• Nov 25 (Sun) - TFPC Ping Pong Doubles Tournament 1:30pm-3:30pm
• Nov 30-Dec 2 (Fri-Sun) - Joint Mexico Mission with KM
  • Registration begins Sept 23 (Sun), Last Day to Register is THIS SUNDAY!
  • Training begins Oct 28 (Sun)
• Dec 16 (Sun) - New Members Welcome Dinner

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Volunteers Needed!

• TLC Dinner Deliveries
  • Charles and Sarah just had their baby boy - Carter Chandler Roh - this past Sunday. TLC needs volunteers to make and deliver dinners to them. Spots still needed: Oct 29, 31, Nov 5, & Nov 9.
  • If you can help with any of these days please contact Jane at trojansong@yahoo.com

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1 John 4:10-11 - "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."

TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - October 3, 2018

Take Courage!

Today is October 3, 2018

Welcome to October and your mid-week!

When the disciples were at their lowest point, both emotionally and physically, Jesus came to them. When they were on a boat, in a 7-10 hr storm, at 700 feet below sea level, on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus came to them to give them hope.

And what was the fastest way to get to them? By walking on the water. 

In the middle of the night, Jesus came down from the mountain, walked miles on the water, and got in the boat with his disciples just to calm there fears and bring them hope.

He was reminding them to not be anxious or be worried. In fact John, who was in that boat, would later write this: 

1 John 5:4-5
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

Jesus not only saves us but gives us victory over fear and death. He gives us victory over whatever this world throws at us; over whatever storm may come. 

So then, if you are in a storm or if you see one coming, Jesus words to his disciples are his words to you:

“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

God's blessing upon you and I look forward to seeing you all in the Main Sanctuary this Sunday as we celebrate World Communion Sunday as a church.

- Frank Kim

Recording of the Sermon: HERE
Powerpoint Show of the Sermon: HERE
Recording of the Worship Service: HERE

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Upcoming Events

• Oct 3 (Wed) - All Generation Small Group. 7pm at the Benedicts. The Topic: “Are Miracles Possible?”
• Oct 7 (Sun) - World Communion Sunday. Joint Worship with KM. No EM Service THIS Sunday.
• Oct 7 (Sun) – PV Cell Group. 1pm @ Pastor Frank's Office
• Oct 18 (Thurs) – YMF Cell Group
• Nov 4 (Sun) - TFPC EM Members Meeting
• Nov 11,18, Dec 9 (Sun) - New Members Classes
• Nov 25 (Sun) - TFPC Ping Pong Doubles Tournament 1:30pm-3:30pm
• Nov 30-Dec 2 (Fri-Sun) - Joint Mexico Mission with KM
  • Registration begins Sept 23 (Sun)
  • Training begins Oct 28 (Sun)
• Dec 16 (Sun) - New Members Welcome Dinner

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Volunteers Needed!

• TLC Dinner Deliveries
  • Peter and Joyce just had their 3rd child this past Sunday and TLC needs volunteers to make and deliver dinners to them. Spots still needed: Oct 10
  • Charles and Sarah will be having their 1st child this month. TLC needs volunteers to make and deliver dinners to them. Spots still needed: Oct 29, 31, Nov 2, Nov 5, Nov 7 & Nov 9.
  • If you can help with any of these days please contact Jane at trojansong@yahoo.com

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Isaiah 41:10 - "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."