Serving Bread

This past weekend, I taught Mark 8-10 at a college student conference in Los Angeles. The thrust of the second half of of the gospel of Mark challenges readers to consider what it really means to follow Jesus. As the revealed Messiah in Mark 8.29, he interprets to whoever would hear what it means to [...]

I’m not the biggest fan of commencement ceremonies. There is a whole lot of waiting around to hear one name uttered. And graduations are sort of bitter sweet rites for me. Every year, I see a crop of students from my ministry transition to new endeavors. It’s sad to see them go, yet it’s satisfying [...]

A week of outreach events on the CSUN Campus

This is a promotional video created by CSUN students for our upcoming conference. To me, this video represents more than just an announcement, but an expression of student initiative and creativity.

In one of my readings for an independent study seminary course, I came across the following quote uttered by a pastor in India: The empty cathedrals in Europe are silent witnesses to the barrenness of the church. Why continue to imitate a failed model? The pastor was responding to a question of whether his model [...]

I fundraise for a living. I don’t just raise money for the ministry I lead, but I raise money that covers my salary and all expenses associated with my work–whether it be for supplies, room rentals or my education. I have been fundraising about $65,000 for the past three years, and over the course of [...]

We have a new generation of staff. I am excited to be leading a team of three young interns to shepherd our community on the Cal State Northridge campus. Linda, Yemi (Sky), Terrell and I will be strategizing, visioning, shepherding, pastoring, leading, and praying for our community of students. (Of course, we’ll also be baking, [...]

My family and I have recently left our church community of six years to plug into something a little closer to home. My wife doesn’t mind the process of looking for a new church. I don’t like it. I have too many desires and values for what church should be like and find myself having [...]

My student leaders and I had a sort of an “aha” moment recently when we were discussing and debriefing the role that outreach should play in our ministry. Outreach events are somewhat peculiar components of ministry. Doing outreach is good for several reasons. It is good for the community doing the outreach to engage the [...]

Off the book I once was lost: What postmodern skeptics taught us about their path to Jesus by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp, I’ve compiled the YouTube videos into one location. I urge you to learn from them, use them and embed them. Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com