Better Together
The work we do, as pastors to college students, can often be incredibly rewarding and fulfilling. But it can also be […]
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Top Posts for May 2011
Greetings from sunny Minnesota! I’m enjoying some time away with my family this week — visiting family and friends — and I […]
What’s Your Theology of Vocation?
It’s an inevitable question/conversation for every college student — especially as they prepare for graduation: What do you want to do with […]
Snubbing God
In a previous post I talked about why (most) students side with Rob Bell.
Near the end of that post I suggested that, if push came to shove, many students today would choose loyalty to their friends — over and above their loyalty to God.
The reason?
Because they cannot conceive of a God that would subject their non-believing friends to an eternity of pain, suffering and separation from God.
Many of today’s college students, much like Bell (and plenty of others), believe (or want to believe — or need to believe) that God will make a way for those people who do not confess Jesus as Lord during their time here on earth.
The World Didn’t End — Which Raises Some Good Questions
Well, it’s May 23, 2011. 2 days after the world was supposedly going to end — at least according to some people. […]
Why (Most) Students Side With Rob Bell
I don’t know how many college students have taken the time to pick up Bell’s Love Wins, let alone read it, over the course of a busy spring term… but this summer, if they do, I think we’ll find that many of them will more or less fall into agreement with much of what Bell has to say.
And it makes perfect sense, really.
We’ve become a global community — and few know this better than our students.
A Summer Reset
As our students leave campus (or prepare to leave campus), and we begin to seek out a slower, more intentional rhythm of […]
Commissioning Graduates: An Ordination to Daily Work
Before we send our students across the stage (to receive their diploma), and then on out into the world, we will worship together one last time at a baccalaureate service.
For the past several years this service has taken on the intentional theme of: An Ordination to Daily Work.
We want our students to recognize that — regardless of what field of work, sphere of society, or corner of the world they are heading to — God will be there, and wants to use them in some intentional ways in that place.
Do You Keep Up With Graduates?
With our college graduates preparing to leave campus — most of them “for good” — I find myself wondering if there are […]
On Helping Graduating Seniors to Recognize that: Few Things Are Meant to be Permanent
It’s graduation season! I LOVE this time of year… for far too many reasons to account for here… but there are those […]