I have the need to be brief. It’s been a crazy week with some refugee high school boys having serious conflict with a Hispanic gang at two of the public high schools here in Phoenix. I’ve been interacting with the Phoenix Police, an apartment manager, some leaders from a Burmese Karen Christian church and others. […]
The reality of loving, leading, and pastoring a local church requires regular trips into what can some times be best described as a “wrestling ring” without end. For myself and most of the other pastors I know, wrestling with one or more issues regarding the way we are “doing” church is fairly normal. In fact, one of the […]
I’m a follower of Jesus, I’m a pastor of a local church that is heavily engaged with serving the immigrants that live in our local community, and I’m a person who believes the bible is God’s self-revelation and that the historical events recorded in the bible actually took place at a specific time in history. […]
A few years ago I was asked to write a monthly column for a secular, successful, and fairly influential magazine that serves the Filipino-American community here in Phoenix. The married couple that publishes the magazine had attended a seminar that I had recently taught that focused on cross-cultural marriages. The seminar was designed to help […]
Because of the way God has wired me personally and as a result of my understanding of what I believe He has revealed as the responsibilities for one of His under-shepherds, my interaction with all things internet related, including this blog, leaves me self-conflicted on a regular basis. When I couple those two realities with the fact that I’m also a techno-lamer, […]
To get to know me is to realize that my computer/internet/social media savvy leaves a lot to be a desired. To put it bluntly, I’m a techno-lamer. In my next post I’ll be unveiling in depth two of the major reasons why I seem to be perpetually behind the curve when it comes to technology […]
With a passion to be as effective as possible, in the mid-1980’s I plunged headlong into a course of preparation for cross-cultural ministry in a foreign country. Because the vision God had given me was to plant a church in a “foreign” country among people that were radically different than myself and the culture I […]
As a “missions-guy”, pastor, and church planting connoisseur, I’m absolutely convinced that if we want to be the most effective tool possible in the hands of our Missionary God, we MUST have a working knowledge of the culture that we are trying to reach with the truth of the Kingdom and then present that truth […]