Tag: gang-bangers

• Chapter 13: Salvation

  

  I landed in Los Angeles International Airport in the summer of 1996 rockin my blue Adidas windbreaker outfit. I wore matching sandals and beanie and thought I looked like a dope Asian break dancer. After waiting on the curb for over an hour I realized that my Aunt wasn’t coming – she was stuck in traffic…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  May 16, 2017

  Toby’s Story

  Autobiography, Buddhism, gang-bangers, Jesus follower, Missions, Refugee, salvation, social, Testimonies, Testimony, transformation, youth

• Chapter 12: Suicidal

  

  My mom was clinically depressed and was taking pills to deal with it. I didn’t know it at the time but she was suicidal. Life was a deep black hole and she expressed it to my aunt living in Los Angeles in one desperate phone call in 1996. “I don’t know what else to do…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  November 27, 2016

  Toby’s Story

  Asian-American, depression, Faith, gang-bangers, love, suicide, Testimony, war, youth

• When Failing Feels Like Crap

  

  We spend a lot of time cleaning up crap. You know…the mess we make as a result of our own selfish decisions. It doesn’t matter if we are leaders, missionaries, or pastors, we all fall to pride, lust, anger, self-righteousness, worry and self. In those times that we fail to triumph over sin we feel…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 7, 2014

  Asian Faith, Missional Living

  Bible, brokeness, Christian living, college, Corona, crap, Discipleship, failing, failure, Faith, flee from sin, Freedom, gang-bangers, God, grace, hate sin, Holy Spirit, humility, jesus, Kingdom of God, leadership, Lies, lust, missionary, pastors, Power, pride, Prison, refugees, Romans, Scripture, self-defeat, shit, shitter, sin, thieves, Tijuana, train trainers, transparency, Truth, victory, Worldview