We’re in the last week of a 21-day media fast with over 200 students here at The University of Texas. Students, along with several staff members from different ministries have chosen to actively give up forms of media like facebook,...

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...

Everyone gathered around the table as we presented a decadent fudge chocolate oreo cookie brownie cake lit with candles, loudly singing “Happy Birthday.” He smiled while looking slightly uncomfortable from all the attention, yet simultaneously glad about all the fuss...

God has a mission: He “wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:4). God has called all believers to join in His mission by becoming Christ’s ambassadors to the world...

Today I woke up and I felt like my head was about to explode. Ever have one of those days? With one day left before our annual President’s Banquet, a big gala dinner event where we present the past year’s...

This past June I was traveling through Mizzoula, Montana with the desire to go fishing. Mizzoula, Montana has always been in my mind the perfect place to go fishing.  I think this idea came from the movie “A River Runs...

Saturday was supposed to be another ordinary day. In celebration of his birthday, my best friend Andre had invited myself, a couple of friends, his sister and her husband to go tubing down the Blanco river in San Marcos. An...

We’ve all been there before… everyone’s looking around, no one wants to volunteer, and finally, after some awkward glances and not wanting to prolong the silence, some self-sacrificing individual finally sighs and says, “Okay, I’ll say grace.” As comical as...