沼津シオン・キリスト教会

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 10 min read

In Mark 2, Pastor Ogino shows a faith that can be seen and a Jesus who has authority to forgive sins and to heal both heart and body.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 11 min read

With Manasseh, the worst king of Judah, Pastor Ogino shows the power of the people around us, true repentance and the forgiveness of a God beyond all imagining.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 10 min read

In 2 Kings 19, Pastor Ogino draws three lessons from Hezekiah's prayer: pray frankly, begin with praise, and trust that God hears and answers.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 9 min read

There are many religions in the world. No matter the era, the civilization, or how developed a people may be, human beings search for God.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 5 min read

What happens when the Bible stops being a Sunday book and becomes daily nourishment?

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

An old man stands up in a small wooden hall in Siberia, on Good Friday, just after the Russian Revolution.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

There's one sentence you can carry with you this morning, just one, but it's enough: we fail, but God turns even our failures into blessing.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

There are hymns that are not just hymns. There are songs that become, in the middle of a dark night, the hand of Jesus holding you.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

The pastor opens his New Year service with a very human confession. The night before, he had wanted to record his sermon to post it online.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

Every Christmas, the story of the magi from the East comes back around. Three travelers, a star, a child lying in a manger. We know the story, we read it without paying much attention.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

The Christmas service on December 21, 2025, held at Zion Church of Yokohama (横浜シオンキリスト教会) and broadcast online together with Zion Church of Numazu (沼津シオンキリスト教会), opens with a reading of the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1…

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 5 min read

There are moments in life when everything tips over. A death, an accident, news that freezes you in place. It's often in those moments that the question of eternity becomes real: where will I go after this life?

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 5 min read

This Sunday, August 23, 2026, Numazu Church received two moving testimonies (Nozawa Masashi from Yokohama Church on three encounters that shaped his life, and Yamaguchi Mitsuo from Kamata Church on forty ye…

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 5 min read

You have probably already heard the word Armageddon. At the end of the story, the armies of God and those of the enemy meet, Satan and death are defeated, and then a new heaven and a new earth appear.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

You hold your Bible in your hands, in your own language, and you can open it at any moment of the day. That seems ordinary to you.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

Jesus is about to leave his disciples. The cross is near, and he knows it. In this heavy moment, he doesn't leave them alone with their fear.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

A few months ago, a rumor spread about a major earthquake supposed to strike Japan in July. Some tourists even canceled their trips. Nothing happened.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

Today is Father's Day. A day to give thanks for the men who quietly carry, guide, and pray around us.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

It's cold this morning. The snow that fell overnight still covers the roof and the parking lot.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

There are mornings when you look at what's in your hands and think, "It's not much." A fragile health, a little time, a faith that hesitates, a few words you don't quite know how to put together.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

You open your Bible to Jonah 4 and land on a troubling scene. Nineveh has just repented. The whole city, from the king down to the animals, has fallen to its knees before God.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

"Sir, we wish to see Jesus." On the surface, this request from a few Greeks who had come up to Jerusalem for the Passover feast looks like simple pilgrim curiosity.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

2000 years ago, Jesus came into the world as a newborn. His birth, celebrated at Christmas, is not just a memory: it has the power to turn a life upside down, even yours.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 9 min read

Sermon from September 21, 2025 · Zion Church of Numazu (with the Yokohama congregation). Text: 2 Thessalonians 3.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

There are days when words fail us. A loved one passes away, a trial settles in, a prayer seems to go unanswered, and we find ourselves, like a child, no longer knowing what to do with our cry.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 9 min read

"The LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" (Jonah 1:17).

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 9 min read

There are Bible characters whose story we've known since Sunday school: Jonah is one of them.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 10 min read

There are passages in the Bible that never stop reaching us, no matter our age or where we are in life. Moses's encounter with the God of the burning bush, in Exodus 3, is one of them.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

Eight days ago, at Numazu church, we held a summer program for children that we call "Joy Joy Special."

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

When you look at your father, your brother, or someone close to you who still refuses Jesus, there are moments when you feel like giving up. You tell yourself that his heart is too hard, that too many years have gone by, that nothing will ever change.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

There are mornings when you arrive at church with a heavy heart. The week has been long, tiredness lingers, a thousand thoughts crowd in: unfinished work, the kids, the worries. And yet, here you are.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

There are mornings when you wake up feeling like you have nothing left to give. You've tried everything. You've prayed, you've held on, you've served. And the result isn't there.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

There's a sentence in the Bible that can reach you deeply, even on the morning you least feel like getting up.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

One Sunday morning, a guest pastor opens his text to John 2:1-11. A wedding at Cana. Jesus's mother is there, and his disciples too. And the wine runs out. Today, we hear this scene as a touching little mishap.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 10 min read

There are mornings when God comes to disrupt you. Not violently, not with a crash. Simply, he sends a messenger and turns your schedule, your engagement, your reputation, your whole life upside down.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 4 min read

Israel has just come out of Egypt. Centuries of slavery have finally come to an end. And yet Pharaoh changes his mind, sends his army, and the people find themselves trapped between the enemy's chariots and the sea.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

A memorial service brings together those who have lost a father, a mother, a husband or wife, a child, a friend in the faith.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

One Sunday in August 2025, Yokohama Shion Church looks back on the eighty years that separate the end of the Pacific War from our own time.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

That Sunday was Mother's Day, the second Sunday of May. And the passage read in the service wasn't first of all a text "about mothers": it was Exodus 20, the long list of the Ten Commandments.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

Yesterday was January 17. It has now been more than thirty years since the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake struck Kobe.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

This Sunday's service opens with a prayer quoting Jonah 1:17: "The Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 7 min read

Some Gospel passages get heard so often, used so readily at child-dedication services, that we eventually slide right past them without letting them reach us anymore. Mark 10:13-16 is one of them.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 8 min read

You've already known that moment. You just lived through something powerful with God, a victory, a blessed time of service, an answered prayer.