Catalyst | Michael Hyatt | The Importance of a Leader’s Heart
How’s your heart? What’s the condition of your heart? These are important questions for leaders to ask — and honestly answer. If […]
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Catalyst | David Kinnaman | You Lost Me
Are we making effective disciples? That can be a tough question to answer. It requires an honest assessment And statistics tell […]
Catalyst | Reggie Joiner | Helping the Next Generation Understand Their Role in a Bigger and Better Story
More nuggets from Catalyst 2011. This time from Reggie Joiner. Reggie talked about three dials that we need to “turn up” if […]
Catalyst | Tim Elmore | Overcoming Artificial Maturity
I’m at the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta this week. It’s a major conference that draws upwards of 13,000 Christian leaders from around […]
Bad Habits of a College Pastor
I’m thinking about some of my bad habits today… Could be a Monday thing. Or it may have something to do […]
Do You Encourage Students to Wrestle With God & Scripture?
It may seem like a dumb question, but I wonder… Do we really encourage our students to wrestle with their understanding […]
College Years as Desert Experience [?]
With all of the transition, struggle, change and formation that takes place during the college years, I wonder how our approach to […]
Finding A Sustainable Pace
By now, many of us are full-on into a new term of ministry with students.
Whether we’ve been at it for 2 weeks or 4 weeks, or somewhere in between, we’ve likely been going at it hard — recognizing that the first few weeks of the new academic year are critical for connecting with new students. Our desire, as always, is to have the best start ever!
But if we’re not careful, we could quickly find ourselves hitting a wall of sorts.
Yes, the beginning of a new academic year does require a lot from us — in fact, many of us would agree that it’s the busiest time of the year, but it’s also the beginning.
My Parents Don’t Get Me Anymore | Faithful Change at College
College can be a time of significant change.
There are so many factors that come into play during this very formative time in life, and as pastors to this demographic we often get a front row seat to the process.
But the reality of change — especially significant change — can be hard for family and friends back home to comprehend and/or accept.
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism OR Following Jesus
What are young people really looking for when they turn to Jesus? Many of today’s leading sociologists who focus their research […]