Serving Bread

3 [The righteous] are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper. During a short exercise of meditating on God’s word that my colleague, Ruth, was teaching to our students, I was struck by verse 3 [...]

This is the beginning of a countdown of my ten favorite freeware applications that I use frequently. I have a PC with Windows XP, so I’m not sure whether they work for a Mac or for other version of windows. It baffles my mind that a piece of software like Audacity is free. This is [...]

We have had the Nintendo Wii for two weeks now, and I can’t complain with the number of hours we have logged playing with this game system. We only have one game–the sports pack–and we’re not sure we’ll be buying any other games anytime soon. I love being a part of the game and love [...]

I wouldn’t quite call it a side business. For birthday and Christmas, my family (immediate and extended) got me the Canon Rebel Xti. Photography has been a hobby of mine for years, but when I got to college, I could no longer afford film and developing costs, and any access to darkrooms. In the past [...]

I love the time I get to spend with Layla. While integrating family and ministry has been an art-form that I have yet to perfect, one of the God-sents of this age are the naps. A nap is a beautiful thing–the toddler needs it and the parent needs it. During those two hours I have [...]

The Cal State Northridge Men’s Basketball team plays host to UC Davis tonight. Who do I root for? (My alma mater or my mission field?) May the best team win–I will be celebrating Valentine’s Day without either of those two teams! (I tried to make the game a part of the date, but got ‘the [...]

We’re in the process of refinancing, and our broker wanted us to fax back the signed “disclosures”. These are 50 pages of legal mumbo-jumbo. (For example, I had to sign a statement that says that these records are technically public and through the PATRIOT Act, they can be available to government agencies). We have an [...]

What is the dominant mode of experience at the end of the twentieth century? How do people see things, and how do they expect to see things? The answer is simple. In every field, from business to politics to marketing to education, the dominant mode is entertainment… In other centuries human beings wanted to be [...]

Are you kidding me? I’m offended that they are offended…

Everywhere I turn, I hear someone talking about global warming. The networks have “experts” to talk about how the earth is getting warmer and unless we change some things drastically (some would argue that means the Bush administration), we might as well start writing our epitaphs. Apart from the Bush Administration (which in recent weeks [...]