What Are We Doing Here?
For me and my campus ministries colleagues, the summer of 2013 has been an unusual one with time-intensive administrative reviews, reports, and […]
For me and my campus ministries colleagues, the summer of 2013 has been an unusual one with time-intensive administrative reviews, reports, and […]
Friendship is a diminishing of distance between people. from Life p. 312
In my work with students, the two refrains I hear again and again go like this:
1) I want more friends
2) Community is hard
Who doesn’t want more friends? Certainly a major reason students attend school is to find connection, meet new people, and develop long lasting friendships.
But, community is hard. Most of the students I work with attend Boston University, which presents a unique environment. The school is embedded into Boston, stretching across two miles of the city, while running parallel to the Charles River.
Our culture is quickly moving to the place (if it’s not there already) where social media relationships are on a level […]
This is another post in my series of reflections on my two days with Eugene Peterson at Q Practices. Our focus was on Cultivating the […]
Here’s what I’ve been thinking about lately: When Jesus prays, we should pay attention. It is Jesus’ final night with his disciples. […]
I love campus ministry! There’s no doubt in my mind that this is what God has created me for… It’s such a […]
Did you happen to catch the season finale of The Biggest Loser last night? I love that show! The transformation that takes place, on […]
I wrote this blog post after returning from a mission trip with eleven students. It is mostly in response to a deep conversation we had about what will happen when the students leave college. See, they get it – they’re tired of churches that are more concerned with creating their own world rather than changing THE world for the sake of The Kingdom.
So as our students walk across their stages and receive their long-expected degrees, will there be a church they can be part of? Will there be a movement of Jesus followers who actually pray as Jesus taught us… and believe it?
According to the American Heart Association website, “approximately 95% of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital.”
Sometime between 12:10pm and 12:20 pm on April 14th my world was turned upside down. During a run over my lunch hour, I went into full cardiac arrest and collapsed. At 32 years of age I had a heart attack…at 32! This was completely unexpected and the circumstances surrounding my survival are nothing short of miraculous.
In case you haven’t heard, the greater Nashville area is experiencing its worst flooding ever [2010] (at least according to all records […]