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  • Advent Peace
    2025/12/18

    This sermon explores the Advent theme of peace, focusing on Isaiah 9 and the title "Prince of Peace" (Sar Shalom). It contrasts the violent, fearful world of Jesus' birth with his humble, sacrificial life and explains peace as wholeness, not merely the absence of trouble.

    Through Scripture, personal stories of grief and gratitude, and practical challenges, Paster Amy invites listeners to live out Christlike peace by showing kindness, generosity, prayer, and sacrificial love during the Christmas season and beyond.

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    45 分
  • Advent: Hope and Optimism
    2025/12/04

    This episode explores Isaiah 8:19–9:7 and the Advent message: don’t seek spirits or empty optimism but inquire of God. It traces Israel’s dark fear, the prophetic promise of a coming light in Galilee, and the birth of a child called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

    Drawing on stories from Stockdale to Bonhoeffer, the sermon distinguishes Christian hope from naive optimism, describing hope as waiting with expectation in God’s fulfilled and yet-to-be-completed promise, and calling listeners to live as carriers of light in the in-between.

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    46 分
  • Looking Back to Look Forward
    2025/11/19

    This episode recounts Joshua 3–4: the priests carrying the covenant step into the Jordan, the waters part, and twelve stones are set up as a memorial at Gilgal to teach future generations.

    Interwoven is a Pastor Josh's personal testimony about the 38-year story of Living Word Church — humble beginnings in garages and libraries, community-building, and how those "stones" of memory reveal Gods faithfulness and inspire courage to move forward.

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    42 分
  • The Way of wisdom 4: Job
    2025/11/12

    This episode walks through the story of Job — his prosperity, sudden loss, raw lament, and the long debate with friends about suffering and divine justice.

    God answers not with explanations but with a whirlwind, inviting Job into wonder and humility; the sermon draws a bridge from Job to Jesus as the true righteous sufferer and the hope of resurrection.

    Practical takeaways include honest lament, quiet presence with those who suffer, worship beyond outcomes, and trusting God's wisdom amid mystery.

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    53 分
  • Promise Maker, Promise Keeper
    2025/11/04

    This message explores the biblical story of the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4:8–37) and Pastor Amy's reflections on how God begins, sustains, and completes our lives. Using personal anecdotes and Scripture, the message emphasizes making room for God, trusting Him through loss and disappointment, and seeking the promise-maker in times of brokenness.

    Listeners are invited to release control, embrace the rock in hard seasons, and allow God to bring restoration and purpose—reminding us that nothing is wasted and God is the promise keeper.

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    52 分
  • The Way of Wisdom 2: Finding Wisdom in Ecclesiastes
    2025/11/04

    Part 2 in the series "The Way of Wisdom" examines Ecclesiastes as a critical voice in the wisdom tradition, contrasting Proverbs’ ordered guidance with the teacher’s verdict of life as hevel (vapor). Pastor Josh walks through the teacher’s experiment with pleasure, work, and wealth and the repeated refrain that many pursuits feel fleeting and inexplicable.

    He highlights three hard realities under the sun—time’s march, universal death, and life’s randomness—then points to the poem “a time for everything,” practical steps to find joy in the present, and the author’s final call to fear God and keep his commandments. It closes by showing how Jesus, as wisdom embodied, gives lasting meaning beyond the mist.

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    41 分
  • The Way of Wisdom 1: Proverbs
    2025/11/03

    This episode Pastor Josh begins the new series on the way of Wisdom exploring the last part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount as the unveiling of kingdom wisdom and contrasts two ways to build a life: Jesus’ way (wisdom) or man’s way (folly).

    Drawing on Proverbs as wisdom literature, Pastor Josh explains how wisdom is God’s creative instrument for living well, and invites listeners to seek Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Scripture, and community as they pursue skillful, grounded living in every area of life.

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    47 分
  • But God...
    2025/07/14

    In this heartfelt episode, Pastor Josh shares personal insights from a transformative journey of spiritual growth and discovery. Over the last year and a half, profound experiences and divine interventions have revealed the intricate ways God works within us, leading to a deeper understanding of redemption and grace.

    Amidst challenges and unexpected dreams, the speaker reflects on a powerful message that God imparted, showing how past sermons and experiences can provide renewed hope and guidance. In recounting these experiences, themes of faith, redemption, mercy, and the unfailing love of God are explored.

    The sermon delves into profound spiritual concepts found in Ephesians 2 and explores the tensions between longing and hope, suffering and grace. With personal anecdotes and scriptural insights, the episode illustrates the transformative power of God's mercy during life's hardest times, aiming to inspire listeners to trust in divine sovereignty and find solace in His promises.

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    47 分