Serving Bread

The CSUN [tag]InterVarsity[/tag] [tag]ministry[/tag] has just experienced a historic night. We had the first meeting of the newly formed “Core Team”. We selected a group of students to join together on a team that would assist in building our ministry on campus. Though this is not quite an official leadership team, we are excited for [...]

I don’t like financing anything (except my house). In fact, I feel guilty; like I am mismanaging my money. For the past 4 1/2 years, I have wondered about the decision to have bought one of our cars. I have learned a lot through that process (about myself and money management). There are few things [...]

Today marks the 92nd anniversary of the beginnings of the [tag]Armenian genocide[/tag]. Although the Turkish Ottomans had organized several systematic massacres prior to 1915, the events that began in 1915 mark a significant political and military strategy to purge all Armenians from Ottoman lands. Modern day [tag]Turkey[/tag] disputes the facts that there ever was a [...]

I just finished traveling (back from Mexico City). I am sure there are many people who are a little more patient than I am with the security measures employed by the TSA. [tag]Traveling[/tag] anywhere requires removing my shoes, making sure that I don’t have certain sharp objects (not sure if my shaver counts), and of [...]

I’m not too surprised how quickly I found the [tag]Starbucks[/tag] down the street. Yes, I do feel some level of contradiction and internal tension spending time and purchasing beverages at a Starbucks in [tag]Mexico City[/tag]. As I’m sipping my “alto cafe” and putting together a training schedule, I forgot that I was in Mexico City. [...]

It’s midnight [tag]Mexico City[/tag] time and I can’t sleep. I’m awake, battling a fly or two that seem to have taken a liking to me, and the [tag]bed bugs[/tag] seem to have gotten excited tonight with the rich Armenian blood to feast on. I’ve pumped a couple of antihistamines, but they haven’t worked just yet. [...]

This past weekend, I was a part of a team of ministry leaders who hosted a training day for college students who are embarking on a short-term mission project this upcoming summer. On Saturday morning, we used breakfast as a cross-cultural exercise, where 50 students were fed grits. We intensified the situation by providing a [...]

Sixth in my countdown of favorite, must-have freeware applications. Check out the previous review. If you are running windows, then you don’t even need to think twice before owning and downloading [tag]CCleaner[/tag] (which incidentally stands for Crap Cleaner). CCleaner is a simple program that will purge your system of all those cache and temporary files [...]

What [tag]Don Imus[/tag] said was despicable. I don’t know of anyone apart from Howard Stern who thinks otherwise. There are so many things that I learn about us (as a nation) through the rhetoric that surrounds the Don Imus controversy. Many people (tend to be our [tag]conservative[/tag] friends) bring up the “[tag]double standard[/tag]” argument. The [...]

I am taking a class at Fuller Seminary titled, “Conversion and the Process of Change.” One of the things I have noticed in my readings (on various “famous” conversions and textbooks) and during the lectures is a reflection on how we (21st Century Evangelicals) view [tag]conversion[/tag] to [tag]Christianity[/tag]. The main model of conversion that the [...]