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  • Wednesday Witness: Reaching Back

    In 1998 I shared the gospel with a young man named Landon Yoshida. He was a freshman at USC and we played tennis together. On match, his strings broke and I used his suddenly weak and helpless racket to teach him the mai…

  • Training Week

    I will be off the blog for the rest of the week. The next couple of days is with our FOL campus staff team to get ready for the year. It should be a great time of preparation, prayer and good food. I am looking forward t…

  • Every Day

    Joy is growing so much every day. She is such a fun and sweet little girl. Here are four things I currently love about her:1. When I ask her where the sheep are she will point to her pajama top where the sheep kick it…

  • Wednesday Witness: Divine Contacts

    At the J-Generation Conference I asked God to be a divine contact for a few people. One young man came up to me and asked for prayer. He was a high school student and needed to pour out his heart. (As a bit of context, i…

  • New Friends

    Tomorrow is move-in day for the new students who live on campus at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Our staff team and some core members of our fellowship will be there to help folks move in. It is a great opportunity to love …

  • J-Gen 2006

    I spent four days last week at the J-Gen 06 conference in Taylor, IN. It was a large gathering of Korean youth from the Midwest. God did some great things for us out there. Here are a couple of highlights:1. Korean Youth…

  • Wednesday Witness: Long Beach Lepers

    Luke 5:12 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 13 And Jesus stretched out his hand an…

  • Blue Hot

    I went to my first baseball game of the year tonight with some of the fellas from FOL. I was caught a bit at how nostalgic I felt. Without trying to sound like Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones in Iowa), I had moments of r…

  • Joy in the City

    Thank you for your prayers for the FOL Family BBQ on Sunday. It was a benchmark moment for our church. Here are seven highlights from the day:1. The FOL Launch Team - I was so proud of the Fountain of Life core group …

  • Funny Faces

    We had a lot of fun today playing around with Photo Booth, a new Apple feature. These three pictures made us laugh. How about some witty captions? Just leave a comment and include the number...1. 2.3.

  • Preaching

    It is a big preaching week ahead. Sunday will be a sermon on Philemon at Journey Covenant Church. The title of the sermons is "From the Margins to the Pulpit of Ephesus." The relationship of Philemon and Onesimus is an e…

  • Grueling Preparations

    There is public ministry coming ahead this week. Three sermons and two seminars. It should be fun. As I have been preparing the Word, I found over at Guy's Blog an inside account in The Guardian by Mike Evangelist of how…

  • FOL Family BBQ

    This Saturday our church will hold it's first outreach event: the FOL Family BBQ. We will be at Houghton Park, next to Jordan High School, from 10AM to 2PM. There will be free food, a bounce house, games and face paintin…

  • Wednesday Witness-Luke 5.4-5: Fishing with a Net

    4 When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You…

  • Struggles

    Mel Gibson was picked up last week here in Los Angeles for drunk driving. He was driving around in his Lexus with an empty bottle of Tequila. The LA Times today reported that in a drunken haze, he dropped F-bombs, female…

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