Here is a Facebook conversation I had with a school friend of mine Nathan yesterday. Nathan is not his real name. NATHAN: Hey James, how are you doing? Ha-nyang-ha-se-yo! ME: hi Nathan! i’m well, how are you? NATHAN: I am good, by God’s grace. after a few minutes… NATHAN: We are just in need of [...]

Today, I saw a commercial for New York Life Insurance. The commercial boldly claimed, “Only one gift protects a lifetime of firsts. Life insurance from New York Life.” In other words, NYL is promising its customers that their policy will ensure that their children will be guaranteed to be provided for lifetime. Please see for [...]

Linsanity has been sweeping America. Jeremy Lin is a professional basketball player for the New York Knicks who has stolen the hearts of our country. He is the most talked about topic nationally at the moment. He has been given many catchy nicknames: Legend In Newyork, To Linfinity and beyond, Super Lintendo, All I do [...]

I yelled at a fifty-something year old lady on Saturday. I screamed at her on top of my lungs. And no, it was not my mom. Before you judge me, please let me tell you a bit more. Indeed, I was ANGRY. Oh how pissed off I was! I don’t remember being that mad for [...]

You know, I suck at basketball. No, I really am. In fact, I’m terrible at it. Yesterday, I went out to a park in Duarte (about 10 minutes west of church) to play basketball with a few of our Korean Ministry pastors and deacons. I remember when I moved to Fullerton from LA for high [...]

I’m a hip-hop music fan. I appreciate wise rhyme schemes, stinging political messages, and simple yet catchy beats. And if you are like me, you would agree that good hip-hop is a rare animal on the radio these days. In fact, what is called hip-hop on the radio is really pop music. Let me be [...]

This past Sunday, we started our worship by sharing a story about how what we say to each other matters. The example that was used was a scene of high school boys “rating” a girl walking by and her relevant body parts. I used this story to bring your attention to heightened importance of what [...]

It’s been a little more than two months since I got married. I have since then adopted small habits of Hannah’s. I put the toilet seat down. I take two showers per day. I separate my laundry into different baskets. My mornings have particularly adjusted. I eat Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, instead of Frosted [...]

Hi everyone! My parents have been looking for a place to move. They currently live with Reverend Lee, our retired founding pastor, who happens to be my uncle. My parents and I originally moved into his place back in February 2009, to housesit for my uncle who had left for a teaching position in Korea. [...]

Happy New Year Everyone! I can’t believe it’s 2012! That just sounds really weird for me. Actually, the entire 2000-somethings have been awkward to me. Growing up in the 90s, I’m just used to calling the years with higher numbers, you know? I remember in 1999, we had a world-wide scare called Y2K. Standing for [...]