A couple of weeks ago Nick and I were doing some ministry on our local college campus. During our prayer walk, we had a surprisingly hostile encounter with a young woman who is part of a high-control group.  It was something I never experienced before, but felt Jesus with me in the moment. It’s really… [Read More]

Prayer? How many people would come forward to ask for prayer if you had a booth at a city event? What kind of people would come forward? That was the question we were asking last month when we set up a booth at the Heritage City Parade in Placentia. At this event, thousands of people… [Read More]

Sometimes it’s hard to gauge ‘effectiveness’ in ministry. In fact, it’s difficult to even determine what we mean when we say ‘effectiveness’. Is people coming to Jesus the definition of effectiveness? Baptisms? The amount of people that come to an event or Church service? These can be indicators of something for sure. Jesus actually prefers… [Read More]

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]

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]

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]