Catalyst | Susan Isaacs | Be Still and Know Your Story: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
What is the story that you can no longer NOT tell? If you were to die tonight, what are the stories or […]
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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 […]
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 […]
How Portable is Your Ministry? || The Picnic As A New Metaphor for Ministry
For a number of years now I’ve been operating off of a metaphor for ministry that is no longer working. It may […]
Without Vision the Students Perish
Why do 80% of freshman punt their faith? Why do so many graduates enter the “real world” with the best of intentions […]
Mentors and Friends: Why You Need to Be a Spiritual Matchmaker
Walking alone.
Far too many of our students are doing it these days…
I’m not talking about walking alone late at night (although too many are doing that as well), but I’m talking about their approach to life during their formative college years.
Sure, they have friends.
Well, kind of.
They’ve made acquaintances that are often based off of similar tastes in music, class schedules, fashion sense, hometown, housing arrangement, etc… and while some of these relationships have the potential to drift into deeper waters — most never will.
The First Year Out: Helping Students Transition to College
“We have a choice. We can minister in the world we wish we had. Or, we can minister in the world we […]