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 | Francis Chan | HIS Presence Matters
In case you hadn’t picked up on it in previous posts… the theme for the Catalyst conference this year is simply: Be […]
Catalyst | Andy Stanley | Be Present
The more successful you are as a leader, the less accessible you will become. It’s not a bad thing… and it […]
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 […]
When Burden Trumps Passion
I had the chance to hear from Dr. Ana Aspras Steele in Chapel this morning. Her life has been wrecked. And now, […]
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.