Have you ever been at a place in your life where you feel uninspired?  A place where everything you have to do feels like a drag?  Ordinary things, fun things, important things?  The feeling that you just can’t get up …

My wife needed to stop by Target to pick up a couple of things to take the girls in our human trafficking shelter out for a celebration.  I told her to take her time and go to the floor above …

It’s amazing! Forty percent of my staff are graduates of our recovery home. God is truly changing lives. The miracle is how we have been able to add beds for the homeless and people with addictions during a down economy. …

I’ve seen it! The devastation of street gangs in a city. We’ve picked up kids on a bus from a housing project, only to have to run a separate bus a hundred yards down the street to pick up kids …

Seventeen years ago, when my father and I talked about planting a church in Los Angeles, a businessman with good intentions came to warn us why downtown Los Angeles was not the place to build a church. He showed us …

This blog is not what you think it is. When you read the heading I’m sure you were thinking, “Oh no, he’s not one of those guys on the airplane that scatters magazines on his tray table and cuts out …

There is no doubt we live in a results driven world. When we start something new, we demand to see results. Churches, ministries, weight loss, everything. Five weeks ago I vowed to lose weight so I started working out at …

I’ve been a pastor for 17 years, working with every kind of person going through every type of recovery. Working with hundreds living in our facility daily, I have come to learn the single most destructive force on the comeback …

Never again! This has got to stop! I will never pastor a church with anxiety! A decision that changed my life. I will never forget going home and weeping over a Sunday morning where we went backwards in our church …

After our Joy of Christmas musical this week, we had a toy giveaway for all the kids in the community after each of the seven performances. In addition, twenty lucky kids were fortunate enough to win the lucky wristband for …