Seeing Generations Raised in Japan

As our team sets out for Japan shortly, one of our main focus areas is to raise the next generation of worshippers in Japan. One of the things Pastor Matsumoto told us the last time we there was that there was a real succession issue in the church – as pastors got older, there was […]

Japanese/English Worship Songs 2026

After coming back from our first ministry trip to Japan in December 2024, the Faith Community Church Japan worship team was tasked with putting together bilingual Japanese/English worship videos, ostensibly for use by a connect group that was meeting in our mission house in Fukuoka. When the first batch of songs came out on Youtube […]

Worship Hot Takes – Part 1

I Can’t Believe It’s Worship is starting a new series today, called “Worship Hot Takes“. After a pretty esoteric and theologically deep study of the Tabernacle (you can listen to my 4-part Equip course here), Lester Sim and I decided to do some episodes which were (perhaps) less intellectually rigorous. So Lester S found some […]

Blessed are the Flexible

This post is based on an informal talk I gave to a group of tertiary–campus leaders in my church. I became a Christian on 20 July 1990 – so it’s been over 35 years. But as I’ve been reflecting on my journey as a Christian over that time, I began to land on a few […]