Serving Bread

I spent nearly two weeks in Poland as a delegate to IFES’s World Assembly. To be in fellowship with gifted and faithful people from around the world was both water to my soul and inspiration for ministry. Here are some of my top takeaways from this conference: Suffering: The theme of suffering intertwined throughout the [...]

“Chilling!” — That’s the word that comes to mind to describe the emotions in visiting the Auschwitz Museum. Over 1 million men, women and children were killed by the brutal SS between 1940 and 1945 during World War II. This death camp served to execute the policies of the Third Reich in treating their prisoners [...]

Posted from Krakow, Poland Today is Day 3 of the World Assembly 2011 Conference, which has given me plenty of time to get to know people from all over the world. What is encouraging and inspiring in being here is that God opens my eyes to how faith and ministry are advancing all over our [...]

Posted from Mamaison Le Regina Hotel, Warsaw, Poland I’ve been up since 3.30am local time as my body begin the painful process of adjusting to a new time zone. There’s not much I’d want to do at that time, but I do appreciate that it’s the early evening back home. With free wifi in the [...]

If I’m to read the Bible as literally as Harold Camping claims to have, then we probably should hold him accountable to the command in Deuteronomy 18:20 to stone false prophets. I don’t mind that Harold Camping has spewed heresy from his radio program (he’s not the only one). I don’t mind  that he has [...]

I came across this reflection from James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful God, The reason Jesus could trust God in his darkest hour is because he had lived closely with his good and beautiful Father for all eternity. I now see how love that has been proved can be trusted even when things [...]

A friend just forwarded me Tullian Tchividjian’s latest blog post titled, “Reminders are more effective than rebukes.” Tchividjian takes issue with accountability groups because they “focus always on our sin, not on our Savior. Because of this, these groups breed self-righteousness, guilt, and the almost irresistible temptation to pretend–to be less than honest.” His experience [...]

When I first began my ministry on the CSU Northridge campus back in 2001, I was motivated to figure out how to reach commuter students on this campus. Ninety percent of the population of the 35,000+ students were commuters–i.e. they did not live in the dorms or “go away to college.” Though my ministry and [...]

About two years ago, I wrote a handbook to synthesize some of the training and teaching I have done on how to nurture a devotional life. After the birth of my son, I put this project on hold. But in recent weeks, I decided to pick it up again, and publish it for the various [...]

Last week, I attended Mike’s memorial service. Though I had known Mike for 9 years, I didn’t really know much about him. Mike was my mechanic and 6 weeks ago, he lost his battle against cancer. A man in his fifty’s who left behind a mourning wife, mother and five young girls (the youngest is [...]