We have begun to see a new kind of receptivity to Jesus at CSUF, the likes of which I have not truly known in my ten years of ministering there. In addition to having shared the gospel multiple times with people who have described themselves as “seeking” in the first week of the semester, we… [Read More]
“What is a Christian?”
During a discipleship meeting, one young man peppered us with questions about some harder parts of the Bible. During our time sharing with him, it became clear that some of his questions revealed that he was not quite settled on who Jesus was. Questions about the apocalyptic future, life after death, consciousness and time, were… [Read More]
Mid-Air Bible Dialogue
Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you. – 1 Peter 3:15 As we were briefly laying over in Phoenix on our way to Colorado Springs for the EFM [mission] conference, Alan and I changed our seats during our stop to get… [Read More]
Held up
“…But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people… [Read More]
The Holy Surprises that come from Prayer!
In 1982 we were new missionaries in Guatemala. I had a pastor friend, Luis, with whom I would go out visiting once or twice a week. We went to a section of the city called Zone 5 in a neighborhood called La Chácara and realized there was not one evangelical church in the whole community…. [Read More]
Five Tips on Loving Your Neighbor Well
These weeks of lockdown have forced us in California to do what most of us do not do very well—pay attention to our neighbors. Most of us live lives organized around work, hobbies and church or another association. Little time remains for engaging the people next door (who live the same way). Now, we find… [Read More]
