Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2009
The other night I had the privilege going back to serve some appreciative men and women in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles. You really start to see your comfortable life in a different light when you’re talking with those who have no place of their own to rest their head. The best thing I [...]
Posted in General on Oct 13th, 2009
There’s a great story behind this artwork that I just put up on the wall of my office. It was a collaboration between Barton Damer and Promise Tangeman to help raise money for the Huruma Children’s Home, an orphanage near Nairobi, the capital of Kenya in East Africa. I don’t know these artists personally, but [...]
Posted in General on Aug 12th, 2009
Back in June there was a phrase that Gunner used on rawchristianity.com, “argument from silence,” that caught my attention. He used it in reference to possibly our culture’s most powerful method of convincing us that God is not important. I’d like to briefly add to this suggestion that we, both as a whole culture and as [...]
Posted in General on Jun 1st, 2009
Yesterday after my local church gathering I went with a couple friends down to Hollywood where a big group of mostly young people called Reality LA meet in Helen Berstein high school’s auditorium near Sunset Blvd and the 101 freeway. My local church in Santa Clarita, Copperhill, actually meets at a school as well, with no plans to [...]
