Are you convinced Bono is the Antichrist? Do you still wonder why so many people started saying "Your Mom goes to college" at exactly the same time? Is Harry Potter really Satan? This post is for you.

The last two Gospel Rants have been pretty heavy on theology. In the interest of keeping everything practical, I want to get things back down to earth this week. Now almost as much as I love evangelism, I love discipleship,...

Naturally Automatic Have you noticed that just about everything in our world can be automated for us? Automatic transmissions are the norm and most of us never learn to drive standard. It seems almost awkward to me to have to...

This is my fifth year in full-time campus ministry. Seeing that statement makes me shake my head because 1) I can’t believe I’ve been out of college for that long, and 2) I’m wondering where all the time went. It...

Soiled Jeans of Glory It’s once a century that I hear a true, God-given gift of a story. They make me pee my pants when I do. I don’t mean like Aladdin—I don’t want your daily provisos, as glorifying as...

You Just Go For The Throat I have too much ambition. I remember the first day I hit the UT campus, the snot-nosed freshman looking to change the world dressed in his high school letter jacket, seeing atheists and agnostics...

Recently I was having dinner with a couple of friends when the conversation topic turned towards churches and ministries. More specifically, we were talking about things we liked, and things that we sometimes didn’t entirely agree with or had questions...

Last Thursday, 22 college pastors from the University of Texas spent the entire day together in prayer and planning. Just as most churches pull their staff away one day a year to spend time talking about their vision and plans...

Will You Not Revive Us Again Psalm 85:6-7 says “Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?  Show us Your mercy, Lord, And grant us Your salvation.” When you look at our Nation and college...

5 Years ago, when UT’s Missional Community movement began at UT, one of the most difficult aspects of developing our training programs, was encouraging progression.  At the end of the day, Missional Communities differ from other outreach programs primarily because...