Dear Friends, For those who have not heard, this past Sunday I announced to Cornerstone Church that I will be transitioning out of my ministry in Simi Valley. It was a rough Sunday as there were many different emotions floating around the room. In short, Lisa and I believe God is calling us to take […]
After 16 years in prison, a whole new world (or is it?)
Here is an article from CNN that I read a little more than a month ago. It’s about about a man who in 1993 was wrongly placed in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He was 31 years old. Now, 16 years later, he is 47 years old and free. The article focuses on […]
Mark 3 : “The Queen Bee and the Swarm vs. the Asteroid” (Part 3 of 3)
All this talk about teachers of the law and the Pharisees and you might be thinking, what does this have to do with me? I have been reflecting on this passage and I realize there is a lot more religion in my life than I care to admit. Earlier, I shared how religious people are […]
10 Years after the Bubble Burst, Air is Still Leaking
Remember Netscape? How about webvan.com? Or pets.com? Here is an article which highlights the biggest successes and failures among the biggest names in the dot.com world in the past 25 years. When I graduated from college in the late nineties, the economy was booming. Dot.coms were all the rage. I graduated as an anthropology major […]
Pastor Francis Chan is Preparing to Leave Cornerstone to Follow God on a New Adventure
I like Francis Chan. I’m about to read his book, “Crazy Love.” I have watched a few youtube clips of him speaking in recent months. But I have only listened to a couple of his podcasts. And this past week, I was driving to work and was going through my list of podcasts, which I […]
Mark 3 : “The Queen Bee and the Swarm vs. the Asteroid” (Part 2 of 3)
How do the teachers of the law and the Pharisees view Jesus? They view him as a threat. He threatens their entire religious system. He threatens what they had worked so hard to attain. The social standing. The financial security. They must have thought, I will distinguish myself from the other Pharisees, I will out-compete […]