Interview with Dr. John Sowers of The Mentoring Project

Bryon Mondok
14 Jan 2011
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Dr. John Sowers is the president of The Mentoring Project which was founded by New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller. Sowers mission at The Mentoring Project is to rewrite the stories of fatherless young men. The Mentoring Project received the faith-based Partner of the Year Award in 2010 from Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the oldest and most established mentoring organization in America. Dr. Sowers released a book in September 2010 called Fatherless Generation. I caught up with Dr. Sowers to discuss his book and the issue of fatherlessness. As both the product of a broken home and former […]

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Haiti One Year Later

Bryon Mondok
12 Jan 2011
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By Bryon Mondok The Good News   Since the first days after the quake, Food For The Poor has worked to alleviate suffering and rebuild the lives of the Haitian people, said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor in an interview with the Good News. “It’s a long-term solution. There are no short cuts to it.” Food For The Poor launched a campaign two days after the earthquake and have continued the work ever since. “It’s continuous. We’ve been there for 24 years. And we have accelerated our work tremendously. But it’s not a special campaign. It’s […]

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Fatherless Generation; Redeeming the Story

Bryon Mondok
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By Bryon Mondok The Good News My family is under attack. So is yours. It’s a concentrated spiritual effort designed to undermine our civilization’s reliance, dependence, and turning to God. That’s the conclusion you come to when you read Fatherless Generation, by Dr. John Sowers. “No longer do we have to travel abroad to make war. America is making war on itself,” Sowers writes. Sowers is the national director of the Mentoring Project founded in Portland, Oregon by New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller. Miller serves on the Task Force of Fatherhood and Healthy Families for Barack Obama. The […]

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Out Live Your Life by Max Lucado

Bryon Mondok
3 Dec 2010
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Get out? Or get in? You’ve heard the saying, “she’s so heavenly minded she’s no earthly good.” In a time when Christians in American culture myopically focus on their own heavenly evacuation, Max Lucado issues a challenge: leave something behind. Be a world changer.   In his newest book Outlive Your Life, Lucado celebrates the otherwise uncelebrated. In vivid prose, unsung heroes are brought to life as examples of people whose work benefits the world beyond the span of their lives. They’ve left a legacy behind that continues to point people to Jesus even though they’ve gone to be with […]

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Churches do missions “in-house”

Bryon Mondok
25 Nov 2010
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How churches do missions is changing. Traditionally, prospective missionaries leave their church families to join mission organizations to execute the vision and tasks of the organizations. But here in South Florida, churches themselves fulfill the role of the mission agency. Calvary Chapel Boynton Beach, First Baptist of Fort Lauderdale, Calvary Church in Jupiter, Grace Fellowship in West Palm Beach Florida, Calvary Chapel Port St. Lucie, and Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, are planning projects, training missionaries, and staffing their own cross-cultural mission ventures with people from their own church communities. “The possibilities for churches and their missions involvement are endless,” says […]

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Tullian Tchividjian interview on new book

Bryon Mondok
30 Apr 2010
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There is no easy way to combine two separate organizations. Tullian Tchividjian, the new pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, learned this very difficult lesson first hand during the summer and fall of 2009. As he stepped into the pulpit of the late Dr. D. James Kennedy, founder of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tchividjian preached a sermon series through the book of Jonah. His latest book, Surprised by Grace; God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels, due out in May, is a product of this extremely trying time. This book is the fruit of his personal trial. During […]

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Book review

Bryon Mondok
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“The Gospel doesn’t just ignite the Christian life; it’s the fuel that keeps the Christian going every day.” Tullian Tchividjian brings fresh perspective to the Old Testament story of Jonah, in his new book Surprised by Grace; God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels. Crossway Books is scheduled to release it May 31. The central character is Jonah the prophet. The story does not begin with Jonah as a hero, nor does it end that way. In fact, the Jonah’s story ends rather abruptly, as Tchividjian points out a little more than halfway through his book. Jonah is a runner and a […]

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Love and War by John and Stasi Eldredge

Bryon Mondok
10 Apr 2010
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“We live in a love story, set in the midst of a war. Love is our destiny, and all hell is set against it,” write John and Stasi Eldredge in their latest book, Love and War. Written in classic Wild at Heart style, the reader is drawn in early. We are characters in a story much larger than ourselves. This is information we need to have. Ignorance is what causes so many marriages to fail. An enemy is hellbent on the destruction of our marriages and our lives. Like Elisha with his servant, the Eldredges peel back the thin veneer […]

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Crave: Wanting so much more of God

Bryon Mondok
3 Mar 2010
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“Taste and see that the Lord is good,” writes the Psalmist. Chris Tomlinson gives that verse a 21st-century context in his first book, Crave: Wanting So Much More of God. Tomlinson is uncomfortable with comfortable. Rather than craving comfort, the author wants to crave more of God, to press in deeper. But with this desire comes trepidation. “It is a terrifying thing to desire submission to a mysteriously unpredictable God who delights in leading people in ways that upend the world,” he writes. In the chapter called Comfort, Tomlinson writes about the compelling, yet dread-laden, sense that he needed to […]

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Oasis HIV/AIDS Life hosts 5K run

Bryon Mondok
24 Oct 2009
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“AIDS doesn’t ask if you’re gay or straight, black or white, male or female, young or old. AIDS only asks if you’re human,” says Steve Savage, founder of Oasis HIV/AIDS Life . Oasis reaches out to victims of HIV/AIDS here in South Florida, across the country and around the world. The Life will co-host a 5K Outreach run/walk on Dec. 5 at 8 a.m. at Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale with Calvary Christian Academy. The goal is to raise money and awareness and to impact the souls living at the All Saints AIDS Camp located in Nassau, Bahamas. Like a modern-day […]

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