When Moses met God in the desert, Moses offered every excuse for why he was not the right person tofree God’s people from slavery. Finally, God asked Moses what he had in his hand. “A staff,” Mosesreplied. God turned it into a serpent—and then turned it back into a staff. Moses’ only resource becamethe tool… [Read More]
Feel Unprepared?
Have you ever thought about God’s confidence in you? My firstborn started preschool a couple of weeks ago and I spent some time worrying in my mom heart. “ Did I prepare her well enough?” Sure enough, that first day I anticipated tears and separation anxiety for nothing. My daughter enthusiastically ran into her classroom… [Read More]
Discipleship is not just Bible Study but a conservation
At North County Project, we teach people how to have a dialogue with others by reading the Bible with them. Out of one of my Bible dialogue with a couple, they asked me to do pre-marital counseling with them. This pre-martial counseling took on a reading of three passages in the Bible: Gen 2 and… [Read More]
Receptivity
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]
For Real
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.—Matthew 7:21 When I was in fourth grade, the surf culture exploded in the South Bay. I remember pleading with my mom for white jeans, a Pendleton and blue… [Read More]
Breakthrough in Faith
What is something that you have been praying about for a breakthrough? For me, it has been healing from hyperemesis gravidarum during my second pregnancy. In the beginning, I was hooked up to IVs for weeks on end hoping this pregnancy would last. The Body of Christ, the Church, stepped in and prayed with me… [Read More]
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