This semester I would like to compare and contrast the different styles of evangelism.  In so doing, I hope you can learn to understand and respect those who think and act differently than you and, more importantly, be challenged to...

The Preparation One day in August, I eagerly answered a phone call from the youth minister for Gateway Community Church in Wylie – I had been looking forward to this call for quite a few iterations of phone- and text-tag....

  Last week 85 campus ministers from 48 campus ministries united for five hours of prayer, testimonies, and discussion.  It is an annual event where we discuss the state of the campus.  We ask: What is God doing?  What is...

“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It...

I recently moved to a college town in the Northeast that is full of intellectuals and hippies. These are my people. I get weirdly giddy around free spirits and the bookish. I may have lived most of my life around...

There is a lot of debate when it comes to methods of evangelism.  Individuals and campus ministries each have their preferred way of sharing the gospel.  Their convictions on such matter is deeply formed by their theology and their ministry...

Someone once said: “When life goes as planned, I am disappointed because God’s plan would have been better.” As one who likes order and structure, I can’t say my first reaction to an event that follows a nicely written schedule,...

We have been examining the values of one of the most influential churches in history – the church at Antioch. We find the beginning of their story in Acts 11: “Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that...

Recently we had a great time having dinner with our network in Rollingwood which is made up of several families and singles from 5 different small groups and serving teams. We talked about the need for extended family in our...

Graham Tomlin, principal of St. Melitus College in London, has written in The Provocative Church that the problem with reaching people with the gospel in a post-Christian context (the majority of the western world) is that people have been inoculated to the message. Most...