Getting there from here

Missional

Too often we are afraid to dream for fear of not being able to make the dream reality. But something within us needs to dream, even with the reality is far off down the road. Without those dreams it’s impossible to get there—with them it’s just hard. But there are...

A dream for the broken

Missional

I have a dream that God would heal the wounds of the broken, and that he would use us to do it. That the emotional wounds of the fatherless, the neglected, and the abused would be healed—that the effects of generational sin would stop here, cleansed by the power of...

A dream for the neighborhoods

Missional

I have a dream where I see all the neighborhoods across my city of Los Angeles coming together to connect first within themselves and then with each other. I have a dream that people would get to know their neighbor across the street and help them with their needs....

I have a dream too

Missional

It was 48 years ago this month that Martin Luther King Jr. gave a brief, 17 minute speech that changed the way we think about racial relations in the United States. Who would have thought an idea—a vision—could have such a powerful impact? It didn’t change things...

Righteous desperation

Missional

Jesus hung out with those who had tried all the other options. These are people who, like King Solomon, have already tried every other way to fill the void… so they know God is the only answer. They have a righteous desperation. The early disciples often felt the same...