Well, I skipped Wednesday. Two things were cool about Wednesday. The first was that we had a BBQ at our house for lunch to appreciate John Norton for the last six years of being the elder of Student Ministries at Calvary Church. It was a relaxed and fun time. Then I met with a potential [...]

I’m teaching our How to Grow LifeLab this Wednesday night at Calvary Church. It’s all about wilderness experiences in the sense of spiritual dryness. I think it will be really helpful for people. It’s so easy to give up or get depressed when we don’t “feel God.” What has been helpful for you when you [...]

We just finished our Parables series and Tammy Harris and Tim Gold made an awesome recap video of the whole series. I was bummed to miss it in the service last Sunday but loved seeing it finally yesterday. I think it is so helpful for myself and the people of Calvary Church to be reminded [...]

I got this from Ryan Walton who blogs at On Beauty’s Road. Perspective is always a good thing.

Ok, so today I preached in our Elevation service at Calvary Church. I spoke on Matthew 22:1-14 – the parable of the marriage feast. It felt like a decent talk, not quite as good as last week where I was super passionate about Luke 14. I liked this one, but it was a different feel. But [...]

Today we as a church are going down to Cabrillo Park again to help with some renewal and restoration. We are in the middle of a series on Nehemiah and the city of Santa Ana wanted us to help fix and paint the wall surrounding the park. Crazy, huh? And awesome. I love that we have [...]

Check Biola’s webpage at www.biola.edu and you will see a picture of myself and Matt Davis with our crazy green hair for VBS. If you click on the picture there is a full, professional video of me and Matt and Calvary’s VBS. It’s pretty sweet. You might even see Victor’s mug on the video if [...]

I am the pastor in charge of small groups at my church. We call them LifeGroups and there have been a bunch of changes in how we do LifeGroups this past year. This has been a big month in actually launching all of our groups. I have trained about 100 people in how to lead [...]

I was in the Calvary Comedy Show playing a Ryan Seacrest character in a parody of American Idol called American Whiner. The skit was reasonably funny. Tom Stewart was amazing in his role of Canine Man, a contestant who was whining about animal rights until he turned into a dog onstage. He was rubbing his [...]

This should be interesting because it’s such a polarizing issue in the Christian community. People who think you shouldn’t can get really worked up about it. People who think it’s fine to drink think that those who don’t are judgmental Pharisees which is a totally judgmental Pharasaic thing to do. Anyways, I’m looking forward to [...]