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Preaching the Word of God.

I just got home from preaching a sermon out of James 1 tonight to the High School group at church. I am just in awe of how amazing this opportunity was, to be able to really speak into these kids lives and watch them from the pulpit, get it. To see that light bulb turn…

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When I was a child I constantly tried to be accepted by being flawless and perfect because I didn’t ever feel like I was good enough. Anytime I would do something embarrassing I would just play it off like nothing ever happen. I never wanted people to see me as somebody who made mistakes because…

Relationship or Religion?

There seems to be this theme of prayer lately throughout my everyday experience. I went to a conference and the pastor said something that just blew my mind. He said that on average Pastors pray no more than 15 minutes a day. 15 minutes a day? That seems unreal to think that the leaders of…

As one door closes…

So a lot of you have heard the news about God closing the door at Hope Chapel… Let me just explain the full story so everybody knows how amazing God is! I had just finished up school at Vanguard and wanted to get away to sit with God and just pray for the next step…

An Interesting Encounter

I went into Starbucks to get into word last night but as I walked in, it was packed. There didn’t seem to be a good spot to sit down, lay out my books and read. So I went ahead and ordered my large vanilla spice latte in hopes that a seat would open up and…

Intentionally Being Missional

We live in an area populated by millions of people, in fact I just looked up online how many people live in Los Angeles County and there are close to 10 million people just in this area of Southern California. Everywhere we go there are humans! I wake up in the morning walk outside and…

Do You love me?

Peter Said “I don’t know him”.. Three times he denied Christ and this must have been a heavy burden, knowing that he just lied to the people leaving Jesus all alone to be crucified to die on a cross as an innocent man. Just to make eye contact with Jesus as he is up on…

What is holding you back?

I sit here and contemplate a question that continues to come to the forefront on my mind, but quickly becomes blinded by the reality of the materialistic world that I live in. “Am I a willing to give up EVERYTHING to follow Jesus Christ?” This is an extremely hard question for us if we dig…