Tag: Spirits

• Chapter 8: Monkhood

  

  My mom tried everything to keep me off the streets, even religion. In Southeast Asian Buddhist culture it is customary for young males to spend time in their local temple as a novice monk. It’s a way to earn merit for our past offenses and a way to earn respect from the surrounding Asian community.…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 14, 2014

  Toby’s Story

  Asian-American, Autobiography, Bhudda, Buddhism, Buddhist, culture, Drugs, ethnic minority, Faith, gang life, Ghosts, haunting, Idols, Juvenile Delinquency, novice monk, prayer, religion, southeast asian, Spirits, temple, Testimony, Tradition, youth

• Reblog: Over the Mountain & Into the Valley

  

  I just couldn’t resist reblogging this! Here is a post from a friend where she poetically summarizes the 5 highlights of her most epic journey to pray for the unreached in Laos. You can visit her blog here: The Afterglow The highlight of March was going on a prayer journey to The So People.  It all…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  March 31, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  adventure travel, Animism, Asian food, boldness, bombs, Cambodia, challenge, Christian, church, clean water, courage, evil spirits, Faith, faithfulness, food, God, God’s glory, God’s presence, Gospel, Healing, jesus, Jordan River, Joshua, Laos, love, Mekong Kingdom Movement, Miracles, Missions, Motorbike, mountains, mustard seed, papaya salad, paralyzed, pho, poverty, praise, pray, prayer journey, prayer walking, Risk, Sacrifice, sea, Southeast Asia, spicy, Spirits, team, Thailand, The So People, tranformation, Truth, valleys, Villages, visa run

• The Girl with Evil Spirits

  

  Not long ago I was sitting in a thatched hut praying over a sixteen year old girl who was afflicted by demons. For more than 6 months she was bed-ridden and couldn’t walk. She is the only believer in her entire Animistic tribe. Her family has allowed her to “test” Jesus because nothing else worked…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  August 27, 2013

  Asian Faith

  Afflication, Ancestral, Animism, Asia, Belief, Christian, Christianity, culture, Demons, East, Ethnic Groups, Evil Spirit, Exorcism, Eyes, Faith, Family, Ghosts, Glory, God, Gospel, Healing, Holy Spirit, jesus, Kingdom, Manifestation, Medical, middle-class, Miracles, missiology, Missions, Movies, New Testament, people groups, Possession, Power, Power Encounters, Reality, Remote, Sickness, Spirits, spiritual, Suburbia, Teen, Teenager, Test, Tribe, upper-class, Village, West, Worldview

• The Fear of Bombs and Demons

  

  Fear is the same the world over.  Its manifestations though are quite diverse. Here in the West we fear the loss of control. Chaos is a threat to our security and stability.  Without control our way of life is in danger.  Our children are in danger, our investments are in danger, our houses are in…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 30, 2013

  Asian Faith

  Animism, Belief, Bomb, Bondage, Chaos, Children, Christian, church, Control, culture, Deception, Demons, East, Faith, Fear, Fight, Freedom, God, Heavenly, House, Idols, Investment, King, Life, Realm, Sacrifice, Satan, Slave, Southeast Asia, Spirits, Terrorist, Tradition, Truth, Villages, West, Worldview, Worship