Preacher’s BTS: This is the 4th week in the series Joy Full. Writing this message was difficult for me because of the richness of the text. There was just so much that was worth camping on. I could easily imagine 6–8 different sermons just...
One way of generating insight isn’t just to look for what you’re not seeing. Too often, people only analyze the things that are visible, without giving thought to what is invisible. Some examples: Instead of asking successful people what they do...
I wouldn’t be where I am now without the people in my life who discipled me and helped me know God. None of us can make it alone. We all need people who will show us the way and watch out for our blind spots. Here are some of the men who...
This week marked my 10th year in full-time, vocational campus ministry. Straight after college, I began working in our campus ministry as a full-time volunteer, and it became official in the first week of July 2004. Looking back, it’s been a...
This is the 2nd part of a series on finding your calling. Please be sure to read the first part if you haven’t already. This builds up on the previous one. This blog is for those of us who have to decide. How do I know what my calling is? How...
Had a different blog planned for today but I was so inspired by a message I heard yesterday that I decided to push the other one for Friday instead. As part of our church’s prayer and fasting week, we had a prayer meeting last night to pray...
I was in a meeting recently with a few officemates. I told one of them, “I’m feeling a little bothered by _______. Help me figure this out. Does this person really have an issue that we need to deal with or am I just being impatient...
Click here for Part 1. Game 1 of the NBA Finals is over. Good game by both Durant and Lebron. And the benches of both teams contributed a lot as well – Chalmers and Haslem, Sefalosha and Fisher. OKC’s bench outscored Miami’s, which...
Finally resumed my small group meeting with Marco and Ken – two high school students, one from Ateneo the other from La Salle. (To some this would already be considered a miracle. But neither are too true blue or green, so it really...