Lectures

Waiting

Following Mark 4, Romans 8, Ecclesiastes 3, Galatians 6, 1 Corinthians 3, Isaiah 42, 1 Thessalonians 5, and 2 Timothy 2, this lecture frames waiting not as resignation but as faith that honors God's timing. We sow and water, but God gives life and growth.

Missio Dei

Missio Dei connects the fruit of the Spirit, inner formation, leadership, and God's mission. God's mission is not a self-made project. It begins from God, forms character and calling together, and sends people into the world as small but real ripples.

Elijah and Elisha

Through Elijah's victory and collapse after Carmel, and the call to anoint Elisha, this lecture asks what remains after one person's zeal. God's work must not be trapped in one hero; it should continue through succession, formation, community, and sustainable peace.

Training and Formation

We explore how to embrace the high standards of the New Testament without despair, integrating Spirit-filledness with the growth of the new spirit, and moving beyond self-effort training toward life-centered spiritual formation.

Church and Order

The church is a community centered on order and shepherding, while parachurch ministries serve as supportive functional organizations that do not replace the church. Having many gifts and leadership roles calls for greater humility and self-restraint.

A God Who Delights in You

Holiness isn’t a prerequisite for being loved — it’s the fruit that grows from being loved. We recover God’s fundamental delight in us through Jesus and learn to become gospel-centered ministers who lead people to run toward Him.

The Gospel and Discipleship

We explore how the laws, institutions, and ordinances of the Old Covenant find their fulfillment in Christ and how their meaning and direction continue in the New Covenant. This leads us to understand that the goal of discipleship goes beyond following rules—it is to grow in a heart that loves God more deeply.

Law and Nurture

Starting with the distinctions between lambs, sheep, feeding, and tending in John 21, we can see step-by-step pastoral care, the transition from the Mosaic Covenant to the New Covenant gospel framework, and the law’s benefits and limitations.

Tentmaking Ministry (2)

Focusing on the balance between special grace and common grace, we explore how blessings in resources, expertise, social trust, tentmaking ministry, and financial stewardship can be used as instruments to serve the gospel.

God's Pace

Focusing on Psalm 131 and Matthew chapters 16 and 23, we explore the paradox of the Kingdom of God where holding on causes loss and letting go leads to gain. We consider the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit, God’s timing, and how healthy self-esteem is restored through intimate, repeated communication with God.

Healthy Self-Esteem

Psalm 131 helps us face humility, pride, the pressure to be accepted through conditions, the need to be loved in our very being, and the recovery of healthy self-esteem in God.

Tentmaking Ministry (1)

Centered on 1 Corinthians 9, we explore shifts in traditional sending missions, living-based missions, balancing pastoral work and careers, economic freedom, and the spiritual meaning behind tentmaking ministry.

Soul, Body, and Order

Starting from practical habits of recording and organizing grace and the Word, we explore the soul’s order, differentiate between dopamine-driven short-term satisfaction and long-term happiness, and train ourselves to move from high-stimulation to low-stimulation living.

Love and the Minister

Based on 1 Corinthians 9, I emphasize that education, degrees, and expertise are not for self-validation but are preparations born of love to reach more people.

Freedom of Thought

Explore the paradox of trying to control thoughts and how surrendering to the Holy Spirit while redirecting your attention leads to true freedom.

Hexagon

Exploring the balanced growth of ministers and leaders through the metaphor of a hexagon, cultivating Scripture, gifts, character, experience, perseverance, and discernment in hardship.

Kingdom of God

We focus on building faith rooted firmly in God and His Word rather than in any organization or person. This training anchors believers in the grand storyline of God's Kingdom from Genesis to Revelation.

Pride and Humility

Following the principles in Proverbs 27 and 1 Peter 5, learn to let go of the desire to exalt yourself, exercising your gifts and leadership with restraint for the good of the community.

Maturity and Seasons

We explore the flow of church and ministry life through the seasons—spring, summer, fall, and winter—and how to move through phases of maturity and winter to prepare for the next revival.

Balance

Drawing from Joshua 1:7, we learn healthy balance by addressing impatience and extremes, understanding God’s timing, exercising pastoral discernment with people, and recognizing the light and shadow of theological emphases.

End-Time Study (3)

We connect the kingship in Matthew 2, Ezekiel’s temple and the New Jerusalem, the salvation at the Mount of Olives in Zechariah 14, and the repentance of Israel in Zechariah 12 to understand Jesus, the King who returns.

Humanity's Two Failures

We explore Revelation chapters 17, 18, and 11 to understand the failures of government and market systems, the distinction between the Beast and Babylon, the ministry of the two witnesses, and the prayerful role of the church as salt in the world.

End Times Study (1)

By connecting the Four Horsemen in Revelation 6, the seven-year covenant in Daniel 9, and the Second Coming scenes in Zechariah 14, we explore the Antichrist and the last days within the Bible’s overarching storyline.

Work and Spirituality

Connecting the themes of work, love, tentmaking ministry, professional development, and value creation through the lens of 1 Thessalonians.