Life
Love the Ones You’re With
“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” Galatians 5:13 We see a great deal of service to one another in the realm of God’s people. Mission trips abound. Benevolent funds overflow. Community service projects are well-staffed by…
Read MoreHow To Function With Few On The Floor
“My team is on the floor.” This is Gene Hackman’s line from an absolutely crucial scene in the movie Hoosiers. Do you know it? What a movie! It is based on the true story of a tiny town in Indiana going all the way to the state championship where they…well, let’s not spoil it. Wonderful…
Read MoreFrom Grinch to Griswold
Something happened to me a few years ago… I’d never been one to do a whole lot of Christmas decorating. Maybe it was laziness, maybe it was PTSD from a childhood full of mountain vacations with hour after hour of my mom dragging the entire family into every kitschy Christmas shop in a 20-mile radius…
Read MoreI Thought You Ought To Know
As you can tell from my picture below, and from my last name, I am Asian – Korean to be precise. I was born in South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of one. I grew up in Southern California and came to Virginia 18 years ago to be the pastor of…
Read MoreThey’re Just Not That Into You: 5 Ways To Avoid The Pitfalls of Celebrity Status in Ministry
We don’t need to drop any big names, but we can all think of someone in ministry who rose to celebrity status only to cave under pressure or temptation. They were doing great work for the Kingdom of God and then they weren’t. Sure, for argument’s sake, it may not be that every “celebrity pastor”…
Read MoreYou Don’t Need a Mentor: You Need a Bullpen!
Sir Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Now there is no denying the importance of this mathematician and natural philosopher to our modern world (I mean, he invented gravity for Pete’s sake…wait, that can’t be right). Anyway, did you notice in the above…
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