Interview with Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, is one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the 20th century.

The following videos (about 25 minutes altogether) are of Simon Smart (Centre for Public Christianity) interviewing Plantinga. They talk about reasons for belief in God, the arguments of Richard Dawkins, and personal faith. “Plantinga provides a summary of his evolutionary argument against Naturalism, as well as giving a personal reflection on the highs and lows of a life of faith

If interested, here is the link.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

Happy New year.

Thanks to the calendar, a new year comes every year.
Many make new year's resolutions. We want to let go of old habits and old memories but can't. S0 we need Jesus' gospel -the good news.

In the Gospel, we become new. We have hope in Jesus because we are in Jesus we can start new. In Jesus we are new. Not we are new but Jesus makes us new.

But why we want to hold on to old crappy things? So it is time to meditate on the work of our LORD Jesus.

Jesus came to make us new. So we have hope in Jesus.

Biblical time line

As you read the Bible, here’s a chart you may want to to print out and have on hand. It’s from Graeme Goldsworthy’s bookAccording to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible
(From Justine Taylor's blog)

Why read the Bible?

"I'm a busy person with a lot to do. Why should I spend time reading the Bible? I don't have time to do all I need to do as it is."

"I already believe in Jesus Christ. I've already heard the Gospel."

"Why should I read the Bible?"

This link will give some Biblical framework for why we should read the Bible.

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• God's Word Is A Seed
  

• God's Word Will Make You Free
  

• God's Word Is A Medicine

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How Protestant Pastors Spend Their Time

From Ed Stetzer's blog.

CBS report by Point

God abundantly blessed our Christmas B. seminar 2009. 15 adults attended the seminar including 6 Turkish sheep and 4 international guests. We came to the seminar place Friday night, because we got lost on the way
and almost everybody was sick, coughing and having fever. The weather was terrible and everything looked like a failure in the middle of the night. We were distressed and began to pray more.
As we prayed God began to work. Saturday morning the weather was much better. People were refreshed and fever was gone. God gave us awonderful time of B. study, even some Muslims were almost convinced :)

Then we had a wonderful message-presentation by Christy and heartfelt testimonies. God also blessed Saturday night with dancing and movies followed by united prayer. Some people were crying for our country as we knelt down and prayed. Next day, Sunday, we had SWS and sister Zeynep (a new believer) shared her life testimony. Please pray for her (picture). She has just started her life of faith and needs your prayer in this time of universal deception.

We could see how God can work despite of our spiritual and physical weaknesses. The seminar became a glorious manifestation of G.'s power for all of us. I am so thankful to God for this miracle and I also thank all of you for your prayers and support. May God bless you in 2010 and
bless our ministry so that we can raise disciples from all nations in his name!!

Greetings from Danny and Josh

Merry Christmas
Josh and Danny

Dr. James Kim's greetings

Dr. James Kim of Evanston UBF sent this family Christmas picture.

Identity

Dr. Henry Kim of Toronto (St. George UBF) in Canada sent us this bookmark. Our identity comes from who am I in Christ.

• I am God's child (Eph 1:5)
• I am dearly loved (Eph 5:1)
• I am loved unconditionally (Ro 8:39)
• I am Jesus' friend (John 15:15)
• I am God's workmanship (Eph 2:10)
• I am strong in Christ (Phil 4:13)
• I am a New Creation (2 Cor 5:17)
• I am Victorious (Rom 8:37)
• I am Never Alone (Heb 13: 5)
• I am a Citizen of Heaven (Phil 3:20)

Thank God for Jesus who gives us identity in God.

The Gospel Centered Life Part 1

We are doing a series on the Gospel centered Life during the break.

Missionary Mary Cowen presented the first lesson -The Gospel Grid. Here is the link to her message.

Andrew, Jo and Gabriel Lamb from NYC

The Cooks sends Christmas Greetings from China

Click here to see Cook's Christmas card.

Christmas Greetings from Memphis UBF

On Dec 13th, we had the Christmas worship service based on John 1:1-18. Through the passage,we could remember the grace of Jesus who gave up the heavenly throne and came to save us and dwell among us.Shep. Asil Ingram, Joshua Smith and Hunter Pascal attended the service.

I am sending the picture of it.

I am praying for doing my proposal early next year and finishing my Ph.D. in spring semester.Also, we earnestly pray for God’s guidance regarding getting a job after the graduation.We pray to study John’s gospel and continue to serve 1:1 and fishing ministry this coming 2010.

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

In Christ,

Paul & Mary Kim

Video Christmas Card from Grace A Lee of Chicago

My mother Grace A. Lee, is technically more advanced than I. she authored a video Christmas card.

Merry Christmas

Purdue UBF news

Paul Ho who is serving the Purdue UBF came back after visiting Korea. He went there to present his research paper.
Pray for Paul so that God can lead him after Ph.D. this Spring. He also met Dr. Peter Kim while visiting Korea.

Uruguay UBF Christmas News

Missionary Jose Park sent us two pictures. Thank God for the work of God at Uruguay.
Continue to pray for them to raise disciples and disciple makers.

Charles Kim of MN

Christmas Greetings from St. Paul, MN.


Sarah and Charles
Happy, Abe, Yeboon and Hope

The Walkers

The Walkers send their Christmas Greetings from U of I

Christmas?

An evangelistic short film (10 minutes) from St. Helen’s Bishopgate in London on whether or not the Christmas story happened and what it means—featuring New Testament scholar Paul Barnett (From UK):

Here is video on Christmas from U of I. (Paul Toh and Josh taped this video.)

Christmas Intro, 6 Dec 09 from Jerry Park on Vimeo.

Barna Studies the Research, Offers a Year-in-Review Perspective

Based on his company’s interviews with thousands of people during the year, researcher George Barna synthesized the findings across numerous studies and summarized four themes that emerged from his research regarding religion in 2009.
Here is the link.

Theme 1: Increasingly, Americans are more interested in faith and spirituality than in Christianity.

Theme 2: Faith in the American context is now individual and customized. Americans are comfortable with an altered spiritual experience as long as they can participate in the shaping of that faith experience.

Theme 3: Biblical literacy is neither a current reality nor a goal in the U.S.

Theme 4: Effective and periodic measurement of spirituality – conducted personally or through a church – is not common at this time and it is not likely to become common in the near future.

We are praying and plan to do several gospel centered projects next semester. In particular we are looking into these:

1. We need to proclaim the good news of the Christ. In addition, we will do apologetic with book clubs. We have to know why Christianity is the answer vs. vague spirituality. Most people are not giving us a chance to talk about Christianity and its good news. We are also hosting a Veritas Forum working together with Evangelical Christian Union at U of I. This is a goo forum where we can invite our non believing friends and ask them to investigate and explore Christian Faith. Jerry Park and Grace Sun will lead this effort.

2. We are praying to build small communities where we share struggle and faith. We believe that healing comes from being in Christ centered community.

3. The Word Club (the Bible reading club) will deal with the Bible illiteracy issue among us. We plan to read the Bible once a year so that we can get a big picture of the story line of the Bible. We are Deeper Roots in Christ. Our roots are going after the streams of the living water, the Bible.

4. It is vital to do annual review of each person and as a community so that we can accept the good news newly and repent our sins. This break is a good time to reflect and meditate and review and plan for the next year.

We can plan but we need God's help on this. We need your prayers and support.

I am...

We will explore who Jesus is based on Jesus' claims in the gospel of John.

Here are texts and points to ponder.
(The points to ponder are courtesy of Northwestern UBF).

Merry Christmas

Greetings from the U of I, Champaign/Urbana, IL USA
Imamnuel -God with us.Thank God for granting us baby as our savior.
Happy Christmas.
(Click the picture to enlarge it)

News from Houston UBF

We thank God for blessing our First Christmas Worship Service with 6 students. God sent us students from Rice University( Undergraduate and graduate from Engineering), University of Texas (Natural Science), University of Houston (Premed) and Princeton University (Physics). Their names are Valery, Cecilia, Jenn, Atilas, Jeremiah and Jin.

Four girl students came before worship Service to help with cooking. All of them participated in preparing delicious food. Then we started our historical First Christmas Worship Service. Grace played beautiful music with piano and violin. Then Dr. Joshua Choo delivered clearly that most urgent matter of our life is knowing our Savior, Jesus who came from heaven as a baby. " A Savior has been born to us!" God came to save to all the people from power of sin and death. In our C.W.S. we had four different nationalities. ( U.S.A., Turkey, Korea and China) We learned that a Savior came to save all of us!!!

After Christmas Message brother Jeremiah shared his life testimony. He mentioned that he was spiritually blind and empty but Christ came to his life as a way, truth and life by Bible Study. After that, we had eating fellowship. We concluded our Christmas Worship with Bible brain storming time and talking.

We praise the Lord who came to this manger so humbly being a king of kings and Lord of Lords. We are just small manger ministry but God blessed abundantly with baby Jesus. We pray to keep this peace and love of Jesus in our heart on concluding this year 2009.

Thank you for your prayer and Immanuel!

Josh and Grace

Creation, Evolution and Christian lay people

Is science and Christian compatible or mutually exclusive?

Francis Collins, National Institute of Health Genome director says, "Yes."

Richard Dawkins, a biologist at Cambridge said, "No."

What does the Bible say? What does science say? How do we help those struggling with science and Christianity?

Tim Keller wrote an article at BioLogos site about Creation, Evolution and Christian Lay people. As we teach U of I students we pray that we can be faithful to the Bible and teach the Bible to the U of I students.

God said to his people, "Let us reason together." (Isa 1:18) We can come to him and listen to him. God created everything so God cannot be threatened by the nature he created. As scientists and lay persons, we are always amazed by his creation. We can know God by studying the nature and also looking at the Bible. As we start our vacation, we pray that we can spend some time and enjoy/study God's creation and deeply meditate on the word of God.

Let's take deep rest and spend some time so that we can be ready to welcome and reason with U of I students with the word of God.

A Note from Abe Song

Hi all!

I have just arrived to Moscow safe and sound after a 10 hour stop at London. I finished Counterfeit God while waiting! Thank you for your grace and love towards me. I thank God for everything.

In Christ,

Grainger Engineering Library

Grainger is the epic center of nerd-dom at U of I. Some of our students feel at home.

Everyone is serious and studying assiduously and with intensity during the finals week. In front of the library, there is a statue of a typical U of I engineering student studying the language of God - the second order differential equations.

The most diligent and hard core students are studying at acubicals.
Happy finals.
Happy studying.

Today is the last day of the finals. The end has come. The vacation starts. We will have celebration dinner at Berea house.

Thank God for his son who is Jesus Christ Immanuel:

• Savior from our sins

• the promised messiah

• God with us -Immanuel
  

Merry Christmas.

Pray for those traveling

• Jerry Park and Paul Toh to Turkey
• Miriam to Kenya
• Abe Song to Moscow and UK and Turkey (during the Spring break)
  (Abe's international business team won the number one position. The best out of 12. Congrats)
• Danny to Germany for taking a MBA class in Jan.
  
• JJ to Guatemala
• Joseph C and Stephano to Korea
  
• Mike Rora to MA (MA is another country). Mike said that he will read, "The Language of God " by Francis Collins while going to MA. Wow, he can finish one book while on the plane. He finished "Reasons for God" on the way back home country last year.
• Mary Koh to Atlanta, GA. (In Koh, the letter H is silent but it is the most important letter. H stands for Heaven. Ko mean nose in Korean. So Mary Koh means Mary's nose is pointing to H(eaven) like her heart.)

"I am..." Who Jesus is

U of I UBF and DRIC are planing to learn who Jesus is according to gospel of John next semester.

Below are tentative Sunday passages.

1/24/2010 I Am the bread of life (John 6)
1/31/2010 I Am the Light of the World (John 7)
2/7/2010 I Am the gate (John 9-10)
2/14/2010 Special lecture- Nehemiah
3/21/2010 I Am the Good Shepherd (John 10)
2/28/2010 I Am the Resurrection and the Life (John 11)
3/7/2010 I Am the Way (John 14)
3/14/2010 I Am the Vine (John 15)

Spring break weeks
3/21/2010 Job 1 and 2
3/28/2010 Job 42

School resumes

4/4/2010 Easter conf prep
4/11/2010 Easter conference
4/18/2010 I am the suffering servant (Isa )
4/25/2010 I am praying for you (John 17)
5/2/2010 I am the bridegroom (Eph )
5/9/2010 I am making everything new (Rev 21)
5/16/2010

Let's pray to learn who Jesus is next semester. Leave your feedback. Thank you.

The gospel, the energy of God and Finals lunch

This morning I filled up my gas and while I was waiting, I went into a gas station to get my morning coffee. I noticed that there was one section filled with various energy drinks.

Paul said that the gospel is the power of God. (Rom 1). We need power to do things such as taking finals and doing homework Why do we need energy drink that can only supply energy and let you burn out in 5 hours?

Is it better to sleep and drink water? We are trying to cut sleep but it will soon catch up.

God gave us the energy of God.

Let's pray for our students who are taking the finals and grant them power from above.

As we learned from 1 John 2:2:14

I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God lives in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.

We are strong, not because we drink energy drinks or we are strong. we are strong because the incarnate word of God is strong.

May Immanuel, the incarnate word of God be with you and grant you necessary energy.

Come to our final Final lunch tomorrow. It will be held at Jerry's lounge from 11;30 to 1:30. Our women coworkers are serving students who are taking finals.
Please RSVP to Gloria.

Happy Finals.

Immanuel.

What is the gospel

Dr. Toh sent this link:
D.A. Carson speaks of the Gospel based on 1 Cor 15.

News from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Missionario Don send us a note:

Pray for Argentina UBF...

We will have our Christmas Worship this Dec. 20th jointly with the La Plata UBF. Please pray for me to serve Christmas message from Isaiah 9:1-7 with the focus on Jesus the Prince of Peace. We will sing Unto Us a Son is Given and our brothers and sisters will perform a short drama for Baby Jesus.

May the peace and joy of Baby Jesus be with you and all your family and coworkers. En Cristo, Mro. Don

WPCD 88.7 FM, Champaign, IL USA

Monday Dec 17th, 2009

My Egyptian friend Samaha, who came a Fullbright scholar to Parkland this year invited me to the Parkland Radio talk show. I had a chance to talk about why we celebrate Christmas to the listeners based on Matt 1.


We celebrate Christmas because of three things.

1. Jesus -the name means Jesus saves his people from their sins
2. Christ -Christ means messiah. God is faithful and kept his promise.
3. Immanuel -God is with us. We could not go to God but God came to us.

Please let Samaha know if you want to share your life experiences to his audience.

Jesus Christ Immanuel by the Holy Spirit

We thank God for giving us Jesus Christ Imannuel by the Holy Spirit. (Matt 1)

We learned:

1. Why Jesus came.

2. Who is Jesus

3.How did Jesus do his ministry

Here is the message.

A message by Dr.Sam, 13Dec09 from Jeremiah Park on Vimeo.

Merry Christmas
May Jesus Christ Immanuel be with you.

Love in Christ
SAL

Why Does Jesus' Resurrection Matter? Considering Its Relevance for Today

From Veritas Forum

N. T. Wright's resurrection presentation:

http://veritas.org/media/talks/641

qa http://veritas.org/media/talks/642

More N.T. 'Wright stuff':

http://veritas.org/media/search?query=n.+t.+wright

Tim Keller Counterfeit Gods

Tim Keller wrote a new book called 'Counterfeit Gods'.
Diana Strong from Louisville , KY brought a copy with Tim Keller's autograph on it to Grace Sun.

Note that we are all co-laborers in the gospel.

Houston House church UBF prayer requests

Grace Choo writes:

I wanted to ask your prayer for our Christmas Worship.

We are having our Christmas Worship Service on December 20th. We pray for 15 attendants.

Please. Remember in your prayer so that Dr. Joshua H Choo deliver Luke 2:1-20. ( Good news of great joy, Birth of Jesus!) with joy and power. Also I am preparing special song and also . Brother Jeremiah(Graduate student) will share his life testimony to testify how Jesus came to his life personally based on one verse of Bible. We pray to meet our Jesus very personally.

Thank you for your prayer!

God bless you!

BioLogos Club

Pray for books club next semester.
Possible books that we are looking into are:

The LOGOS club

We are Deeper Roots in Christ. Christ is the word of God. We trees planted of the streams of water. Our roots go after the living word of God. (Psalm 1)

Join the Bible reading club and experience the word becoming flesh.

We will read the Bible once a year and nourish our souls

Pick up the Bible reading packets prepared by John Jeong at the Table after the service.

We will use D. Carson's book as a guide -For the Love of God.

Turkey Christmas Seminar

Dec 19th to 20th

Paul Toh, Jerry Park will attend

Want to Go, ask Abe Song for more info. Pray for Point who is organizing this seminar so that he can teach point to Paul and Jerry.

Finals Study break lunch Tues and Wed

Our women coworkers under the servant leadership of Gloria are sponsoring lunches during the final's week. We are grateful for TLC. Here are some pictures of lunch last week.

Place Jerry's lounge

When Tues and Wed 11:30 to 1:30 (come anytime between 1130 to 1 30)

RSVP to Gloria via email or Text

Veritas Forum

One of the things we are doing for the next year in cooperation with the Evangelical Christian Union is to have a Veritas Forum at U of I.

ECU is in process of organizing it and Jerry Park is taking the lead from us.

If you are interested please let Jerry know.

Here is an example of the Veritas Forum at Berkley.

"The Language of God: Intellectual Reflections of a Christian Geneticist" February 4, 2008, at The University of California, Berkeley Presentation by Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome ...



For those who want to explore more, see
Time magazine article on God vs. science.

Francis Colins' book, "The language of God."

News from Purdue UBF

Paul Ho, Math Ph. D. candidate and who is serving Purdue University sent us this news.

Since next week will be final exam in Purdue, and the sheep will be gone after the final exam, we will have Christmas worship service this Sunday. We will study Matthew 2:1-12 about Magi worshiping Jesus.May God bless my message. And we will have simple musical drama based on thepassage. May God accept our 5 loaves and 2 fish for the Christmas. May God bless our Purdue Christmas worship service abundantly and help us to worship Jesus in
this Christmas! ...

Next week, I will go to Ewha University for a Math conference. I will stay there for one week. But since it's close to Yonhee center. I think I will have many chances to receive words of God through the daily bread message, bible study and worship service. May God help me to renew my strength through the visit.

In Christ,
Paul

Let's pray for our 10 Ten brothers and sisters in Jesus

Joe Jung receives scholarship

It is my pleasure to announce that Joe Jung, a first year nuclear engineering Ph. D. candidate received a prestigious scholarship from Korea.

Please congratulate him when he returns next Tuesday.

Congrats Joe.

Thank God for being his shepherd. As you know he married recently. His wife name is Liz Jung. He got into one of the most prestigius Ph. D. program. He bought a new car. He received this scholarship. Wow. God's blessing is overflowing. Also he sang, "I surrender all." He is a good singer. Everything is going for him. He is diligently reading the Bible, studying hard and reaching out to U of I students. "The LORD is Joe's shepherd. He lacks nothing in Jesus." (Psalm 23).

Thank God for his grace for Joe's family.

Evangelical Christian Union at U of I News

This is news from ECU in which we are a member.

The date for All Campus Worship has been set for Friday, February 26 at 7pm in Foellinger Auditorium. Please mark your calendars.

ECU lunch get together for spring 2010:

• January 20

• February 17

• March 17

• April 21

At University Baptist Church from 11:30 to 12:30.

Mary Baird from Axiom is the new treasurer and will begin in January.

Muslum Followers of Jesus?

From Christianity Today, Dec 09

Believers form Muslim backgrounds are trying to forge new identity in Islamic cultures. The debate over their options has grown furious.

Join the debate on how to contextualize the gospel in our own culture. How can we be moslem and Christian? Are they mutually exclusive?

Good to think through things according to the Scriptures. According to Point, we cannot be Muslim and Christian. I agree with Point's assessment. But why we are having this discussion in one of the most prominent Evangelical magazine?

Here is the link to the article.

The Trellis and the Vine -the U of I UBF Spring 10 reading club textbook

The Trellis and the Vine, by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne (Matthias Media, 2009).

We will read together on Sat.

And a book review by Mark Dever.



In addition, Tim Chester's review of the book is here.

Bible reading video Matt 1:17

We will look at Matt 1 this Sunday.
Found this video on Youtube.
Happy Listening.

The Word became Flesh -U of I UBF Christmas worship 09

Merry Christmas.

The U of I UBF celebrated the Christmas worship on Sunday Dec 6th. This was student organized and student led worship service. We thank for our student club, Deeper Roots of Christ for organizing this event under the leadership of Abe Song.

Paul Toh and Joshua made a special video for the Christmas. (Click here for the video).

Miriam Cowen led the praise. (Click here for the praise video.) Danny Kim and Joseph Choi played the Clarinet duet. (Click here for the video).

Pastor Abe Lincoln who is serving the Yale ministry came and delivered the Christmas message entitled,"The Word became flesh" based on John 1:1-18. You will find the message here.

After the message, the students sang "O Holy Night." (Click here for the video).

After the service we enjoyed the lunch prepared by our women coworkers. Our girl students prepared care packages and distributed for the students who are taking finals.

We thank God for his love for us and becoming flesh so that his light and his life and his glory can shine to us. We thank God for transforming of us into his children when we believe in the power of his word. We pray that we can plant and practice the word this Christmas time.

We will offer our Christmas worship offerings for constructing Bethesda hospital in Uganda. Thank you for your partnership in Christ and generosity in serving our LORD Jesus.

May the word of God dwell richly in your heart.

James Calvin Toh

What a name.

• James -Jacob in Greek

• Calvin -Bible Scholar. He is the comeback kid according to Christianity Today
  

• Toh -ToH(eaven). H is silent but it is very important. It sets the direction.

Christmas Worship Service on Sunday Dec 6th

Pastor Abe Lincoln who is serving students at Yale University will be our special guest for the U of I Christmas worship service.

His title of the message is: The Word became Flesh.

Come and join us.

Holicopter Parents

What can we do as parents?

Can we articulate the gospel when raising our children
? Can we trust God and his provision for our children? Can our work ultimately raise better kids or is this God's grace upon us? I am not advocating indifference but at certain point, we can only pray and ask God's help after all said and done. It is God who takes care of our kids. We simply depend on his mercy and grace and his power of his word. We humbly depend on Jesus' death and resurrection for our children.

From Time Magazine:

We can fuss and fret and shuttle and shelter, but in the end, what we do may not matter as much as we think. Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt analyzed a Department of Education study tracking the progress of kids through fifth grade and found that things like how much parents read to their kids, how much TV kids watch and whether Mom works make little difference. "Frequent museum visits would seem to be no more productive than trips to the grocery store," they argued in USA Today. "By the time most parents pick up a book on parenting technique, it's too late. Many of the things that matter most were decided long ago — what kind of education a parent got, what kind of spouse he wound up with and how long they waited to have children."

If you embrace this rather humbling reality, it will be easier to follow the advice D.H. Lawrence offered back in 1918: "How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning."

Of course, that was easy for him to say. He had no kids.

Read more.

Packer's view on Internet

Justine Taylor bloged about J. I. Packer on the Internet.

“I’m amazed at the amount of time people spend on the internet. I’m not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger—and then moving on quickly to the next blogger. That makes us more superficial, not more thoughtful.”—J.I. Packer, inWorld Magazine

Ouch. It is so true. It hurts.

God and Facebook

“Dear God, I ask you for the strength to fight the demons in my daily life, and the courage to show those around me who haven’t yet found their way to You, the truth and the light.’”

That’s a heck of a status message, no? If you share the same faith and methods of fellowship as this Facebook user, perhaps you might reply to it with a resounding “Hosanna!” But if you don’t, would this make you uncomfortable? Or, even more important, how would this impact your relationship if you did business with this person?

Read more.