Students, Money & God… A Transformational Mix
Yesterday was a good day. After 21 days of prayerfully “Living A Better Story” we had roughly 400 students show up to […]
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2 Days Left to Submit Your RLRF Blogathon Proposals!
Friends! It’s not too late… but the deadline to get me your proposals for the Real Life, Real Faith blogathon is the end of […]
Room for Doubt(ers)
Do we create space for doubt? Does our ministry welcome those who are struggling to believe — and offer them refuge from […]
Brian McLaren || Christian Faith As a Revolutionary Movement
This week our campus community has been fortunate to spend some time with Brian McLaren. Brian’s messages have been challenging and inspiring… […]
The 4 Stages of Faith Development
Although our time with Brian McLaren has ended, I’m trying to get down some of my thoughts on some of the great […]
Brian McLaren || Reading the Bible Naked
How do you read the bible? How do you teach — train — help others to read the bible? In our second […]
Inherited Faith VS. The Faith We Will Live
As students come to our campuses — often having been exposed to one stream of the Christian faith during their “growing up” years back home — they likely now find themselves being exposed to numerous Christian (and non-Christian) streams of faith — which should evoke in them a process of asking questions and seeking answers.
Space and Presence
The last couple of days I’ve posted some thoughts about how we journey with students who hurt. [If you missed either post […]
On Knowing Our Limits
In my post yesterday I shared some initial thoughts on walking with students who hurt.
Today I’d like to explore what it means to know our limitations…
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m NOT attempting to limit the ways in which God might choose to work through us… but I am, however, wanting to make it clear that for those of us who serve college students, in a pastoral capacity, that we have an obligation to our struggling students to provide them with every resource possible — even if it means passing them off to someone who is “outside” of our ministry.
Walking With Students Who Hurt
Some recent events on campus have had me thinking about our students, and the role(s) that we might play, when they struggle.
As the newness of the school year wears off, and many of the distractions that come in the form of ‘kick-off events’ pass by, students who are struggling will find themselves face-to-face with the demons they’ve been trying to escape.
So my question to us is simple:
What role do we play in the lives of struggling students?