I’ve been interested in the issue of leadership and how we can contextualize biblical and secular leadership principles to our churches so that more people can come to know the hope that we have in Christ Jesus.
I loved reading Neil Cole’s Organic Church a few years back as it transformed the way that I view [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘ministry’
October 30, 2009
Missional and Organic Leadership
October 21, 2009
Training for Ministry
Today, during our 2009 Onnuri Spirituality and Leadership Conference, Richard Foster said something along these lines – “After coming to know the Lord, Paul spent three years in the desert being trained (Gal 1:17-18) – this wasn’t seminary…this was after seminary” (my paraphrase).
He went on to talk about how the Lord taught and trained Paul [...]
February 18, 2009
Sociology of the Homeless in Seoul, Korea
There are approximately 1 million homeless individuals in Seoul, and 300 at Seoul Station, which is a major landmark in Seoul. That’s very intriguing because the population of greater Seoul is 24.5 million people. That means 1 in every 25 people is homeless in Seoul.
We had an outreach to the homeless in Seoul a few [...]
November 5, 2008
Green McDonald’s and Missional Living
Reserved parking spaces for hybrid cars, tables and chairs made from recycled milk and detergent containers, and vegetative green roofs – these are a few of the 20 features that McDonald’s has conjured up to attract the eco-concious population (see Korea Times Article).
On top of that, today’s McDonald menu is vastly different from its menu [...]
October 26, 2008
Ministry and Life Transitions
3 days remain.
I only have 3 more days in Canada.
There are only 3 more days until my wife and I begin our new life in Seoul, Korea.
How did it get this way? How did we end up leaving our ministry and our life in Montreal to move to the other side of the world? How were [...]
September 7, 2008
the full story – Michael Guglielmucci’s Deception
Almost a month ago, Michael Guglielmucci, a pastor in Australia who had written and sung “Healer” on the latest Hillsong album, came out and confessed that he had been living a life of deception. For the past two years, he had deceived everyone, his wife and parents included, and told them that he had terminal [...]
August 30, 2008
how to memorize scripture…
While listening to a sermon by John Piper, I was encouraged by the way he explained how he meditated on scripture. For in Psalm 19:14 it says, “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my redeemer.” And it also says in [...]
