Philadelphia on the night of May 31, 2020, reminded me of Los Angeles in 1992 after the beating of Rodney King—a Black motorist violently assaulted by white police officers after resisting arrest. The LA riots that followed left 58 people dead, resulted in 17,000 arrests, and caused an estimated $785 million in property damage (LA Times). What happened in 2020 was similar, though on a much smaller...  Read More

AMI first posted its daily quiet time on January 1, 2013, and ever since—without skipping a beat—a daily quiet time consisting of a morning devotional, lunchtime Bible study, and evening reflection has been posted every day. For the first seven years of this ministry, original writings were posted. But around mid‑2019, previously posted devotionals began to be reposted alongside new ones; later th...  Read More

Pastor Eddie Kim, recently diagnosed with advanced cancer, is a beloved figure in the AMI community; no doubt, therefore, many AMI-affiliated people, including myself, are praying for his healing. Nevertheless, as I present to the Lord all the compelling reasons why He should heal Eddie, I refuse to say, “Lord, don’t take Eddie now because he has so much left to do to advance Your kingdom.” No, no...  Read More

Did you know that many advocates of theological liberalism do not believe that the Gospels are reliable and dependable sources of Jesus?  So then, how would you respond to one of them who said:“According to what I understand, most biblical scholars agree that the Gospels, having been written near the end of the 1st century (thus, several decades after Jesus' supposed crucifixion) were unlikely to ...  Read More

Shortly after the recent Supreme Court verdict that enables each state to make its own decision on abortion, an actress named Kimberly Elise twitted, “Millions of babies will be saved from death by abortion due to the overturning of Roe. V. Wade. Hallelujah! #allglorybetoGod.”  The article reporting her twit added, “Elise became the target of vicious and seemingly relentless criticism by many on T...  Read More

A while back, someone struggling with apparent contradictions in the Bible asked: “How should I deal with inconsistencies in the Bible? For instance, while, according to Luke, the robber to the right of Jesus repented (Lk. 23:42), Matthew said that both mocked Jesus (Mt. 27:53). Also, the account of the death of Judas Iscariot in the gospels and Acts 1:18 seems to differ. Most of the time I am for...  Read More

The number is truly staggering: over four million Ukrainians fleeing their homeland to escape from Russian forces who invaded their country six weeks ago. The normalcy of life as these Ukrainians had known suddenly came to a halt and having lost everything, many are now refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence. It is a familiar story my parents told me growing up because they themselves were refu...  Read More

What’s a church without being assailed from all sides; after all, that’s how it all began when Romans accused Christians of committing incest and cannibalism and being atheists.  Not much has changed since then except for new “bad” labels placed on Christians.  One book that captures the postmodern malice against the Christians faith was penned by John Shelby Spong, a liberal bishop of Episcopalia...  Read More

Written By: Pastor Ryun“Don’t beat a dead horse,” I said with a smile to a young therapist sitting next to me in a bus heading to New York City sometime in June of 2015.  After being told that I’m a pastor, this therapist, claiming to be nonjudgmental, questioned about my stance on homosexuality to prove his point that Christians are judgmental.  My response wasn’t all that odd considering that th...  Read More

A long time ago, a Jewish rabbi, in a national bestseller written after losing a son to a rare illness, wrote: “I do not believe the same things about [God] that I did . . . when I was a theological student . . . He is limited in what He can do by laws of nature and by the evolution of human nature and human moral freedom . . . I can worship a God who hates suffering but cannot eliminate it.”  So,...  Read More

Once, during my visit to “CERESO” prison in Chihuahua, Mexico (to preach), an inmate boasted that while his Catholic church is 2,000 years old—therefore, more mature—my Protestant Church, in comparison, was a child—meaning theologically immature—since it has been around a mere 500 years.  Some years earlier, a Filipino-American, visiting my Sunday school class, voiced his objection over studying t...  Read More

So why don’t the Jewish people celebrate Christmas?  Well, they believe that Christians celebrate the birth of a wrong Messiah!  To be sure, “the expectation of the Messiah, who will deliver Israel . . .  from all the troubles of this world, has been a part of Jewish faith since biblical times” (Limburg).  Historically, this expectation was borne out of constant suffering the Jewish remnant began ...  Read More