What good is faith if it doesn’t inform the way you live? I collect toys. I used to collect so many, it was pathetic. Or awesome, depending on how you look at it. My old room at my parent’s house looked like a booth at Comic-Con, stocked floor-to-ceiling with action figures, vehicles, and playsets, mostly […]
Grieving
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1 Cor. 15:55 NIV) It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. Life has been more hectic than usual these days. In early April, my father was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Shocking, as he wasn’t a smoker. My wife, kids, and I […]
Is Passion Overrated?
Does God call us to pursue our passions? I used to organize a premarital class, and in every session, someone was bound to ask the question, “What do you do when the passion dies?” Passion. It’s overrated. Sure, passion is exciting, infectious, and contagious. Passion is synonymous with desire, obsession, and zeal. When one thinks […]
Ep. 23: The Power of Forgiveness
Why cling to bitterness when you’re the only one who tastes it? << Previous Episode After my initiation into deliverance ministry, I began to meet with more people to pray for them, and while most people never manifest spiritually the way Jordan did, I did notice how many people were oppressed due to lingering bitterness […]
Ep. 18: The Hearing Test
I thought God was speaking to me. But was He really? << Previous episode I was on fire for Jesus after returning from Bangkok, telling anyone who’d listen that God is bigger than any of us could comprehend, yet He loves us and is with us in our day-to-day lives, even when we don’t notice […]
Why I wouldn’t say “Merry Christmas”
The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means “God is with us”). Matthew 1:23 NIV I took a break from blogging for several weeks last December. One of the reasons was the San Bernardino attack of December 2, 2015. I didn’t feel that posting about […]
#sanbernardino
Hey y’all, I’m taking a break from posting new episodes of my story today, in light of the recent tragedy in San Bernardino. I used to live in Loma Linda, which borders San Bernardino. The shootings took place just a few miles from my parents’ house. The Inland Regional Center is near the Sizzler where […]