For the next few weeks I will write about the eight practices of missional communities, what Campus Renewal Ministries calls “Spark Groups.”  These eight practices are described with greater detail in CRM’s Spark Course, which trains missional community leaders. Pick...

  Although some take summer classes, many college students leave their campuses during the summer to get a taste of “the real world” by working as a summer intern in their career field. For some Christian students, it may seem...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. A Day in Ethiopia Recently, I was able to spend a week in Ethiopia with my wife Brenda and...

It’s that time of year again.  Summer missions season, which means my inbox is full of reports from students on the mission field. We print the reports and pray for the UT missionaries every week in the Campus House of...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. Being In The World “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you...

For the first time this semster, I had a roommate I didn’t choose. We had never met before we arrived at our apartment to move in, and we didn’t know anything about each other. Many college students experience this with a “potluck”...

Recently I came to a stunning realization about myself – I am a judgemental person. For someone who’s been in full-time ministry for over 4 years, you can imagine why this would have hit hard. As campus ministers, we’re supposed...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. We’re Sent Like Jesus Was Sent In Jesus’s longest recorded prayer in John 17, He said to His Father,...

Many of you have heard the quote attributed to Francis of Assisi: “Share the gospel always.  If necessary use words.”  I get what he was trying to say, but have always felt like it led followers of Jesus to think...

I thought I understood the Great Commission. The more I study, the more I’m finding out what Jesus really desired His followers to do. This has had a tremendous impact on how I view campus ministry. I like my comfort...