There Can Be Little Doubt…
“There can be little doubt that the contemporary absence of margin is linked to the march of progress” –Richard Swenson, Margin– […]
Category: Spiritual Formation
Non-Mentor Mentorship
I happen to believe that the most powerful ministry to college age people happens in relationships. And, more pointedly, in inter-generational relationships […]
Making The Most of Senior Year
The senior year of college should be the best, right? Seniors “own” the campus – they know all the best places […]
Gospel Partnerships: Youth Ministry and Campus Ministry
I recently returned from an area wide denominational high school leadership camp. Besides the actual contact with students that I have, one […]
On Who You Bring To Campus
How do you decide who to bring to campus? Who do let speak to your students? Whether we are trying to fill […]
Owning Your Mistakes
I hate to make mistakes. OK. Maybe it has less to do with actually making the mistakes, and more to do with […]
Online Spiritual Formation [?]
While the origins of the internet reach back to the 1960s, I was in college when it came of age (mid […]
Satisfying Work [?]
If you’ve caught my last few posts you know that I’ve been revisiting a retreat I went on last summer with a bunch […]
Extreme Measures
The picture to the right is of a man (yes, fully clothed) running through Death Valley.
Extreme athletes will often go to extreme measures in their training in order to be most fully prepared for their upcoming event/s.
It’s a part of what makes them great!
Their willingness to push themselves beyond their limits — and far beyond what most of us would be willing to do — is what distinguishes them from the rest of us.
An Important Question
What does it means to “train” people in the faith.
Last summer I had the chance to sit with Dr. Jerry Sittser, Professor of Theology at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA.
As a church historian, Jerry shared story after story from the early church Christians, as well as the desert fathers and mothers, regarding how they engaged in spiritual formation — training to be spiritual athletes.