Bethany Well

This week marked the beginning of the Lent Season. The Season of Lent is a time of self-reflection and penitence in anticipation of Easter. Towards that purpose, we focus on self-restraint and preparation through fasting. In the past we have challenged people to fast from something in their life to help them rely less on [...]

This is one of the weirdest, ironic and sad stories that I’ve read in a while. Basically, a guy cheats on his wife with 5 mistresses. He pays their rent and a monthly allowance. The market crashes. He decides he’ll only keep one mistress. He holds a pageant (seriously!) to decide who he will keep. [...]

A passionate pastor and ardent blogger, Eugene Cho, wrote a blog post about this story from the International Herald Tribune, the Global Edition of the NYT. Basically, in a response to all of the advertisements that talk about God and faith and Christ, a comedy writer started a campaign to start an atheist advertisement campaign. [...]

From time to time, we post some congregational prayer requests here for all who read to respond in prayer. Late Saturday night/Early Sunday morning, one of our sisters (Tsitsi) whose family lives in Zimbabwe got word that her sister was in a car accident. Although the sister (Kundai) is doing fine, she lost her youngest [...]

Every thanksgiving, I am reminded of a little Chinese Boy. [No, not that guy on the right. Good movie, though.] Instead, I am reminded of a time when I was in Shanghai on Missions back in ’95. We were teaching English to a bunch of grade school kids from Xian. And we went to a [...]

What would you do if you looked down and saw a wallet on the ground? Would you pick it up and return it to its rightful owner? Or would, rifle through it and look for any cash and then drop it in the nearest garbage bin. Well, apparently, Burger King is rewarding ‘good samaritans’ for [...]

I wanted to let you know about some prayer concerns in our congregation. First of all, I received a phone call from Christine. we prayed for her grandson in Zimbabwe on Sunday. Denzel was admitted to the hospital with sever diarrhea and a fever. I was told by Christine today that he has been released [...]

On Sunday, I provided an Election Primer for the upcoming election. There are three basic sections. The first is a blog post by Ben Witherington III called a Voters Guide for Evangelicals. Second is a explanation of the stances of the various candidates provided by Glassbooth.com. Finally, my thoughts on how Christians should vote, called [...]

Today, my family and I will be traveling to Sacramento, CA, where I will be speaking at a Youth Revival Meeting Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday morning. The church is called Dunamis Ministries and is led by my friend, Chan Kim. That’s not him in the picture; Sacramento, being the capital of California is [...]

Recently, during my sermon Q&A on the series God Will Hunting, I spoke about the question, “Is he/she the One for me?” If you haven’t listened to that sermon, I encourage you to do so. If you still have a question about it, I encourage to interact in the comments or through email. However, one [...]