She was visiting our Friday night group for the first time. People were everywhere, chatting in the kitchen, grabbing food off the buffet spread on the dining table, and playing games on the Wii in the living room. We sat...

  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...

Summer time at the Campus House of Prayer (CHOP) is always fairly quiet. With a majority of the 50,000 students at The University of Texas gone on vacations, mission trips, internships or just home for the break, it means less...

Recently I had the opportunity to catch up with a friend whom I haven’t seen in a while. As we spent the day wandering around enjoying the sights, sounds and food of the city, our conversation soon turned to reminiscing...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it really means when we talk about “counting the cost” of following Jesus. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think that being Christian means you’ll have an easy life where everything is...

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...

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”...

The other day I found myself looking at this picture of me and my good friend JJ. This was taken when I went to spend Thanksgiving with her and her family in 2006. We were confident, vivacious girls in our...

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...

4 days later and I still can’t believe another Rez Week has gone by. There’s something exhilarating about being together with hundreds of other students from different ministries, all unashamedly worshiping Christ as the united Body of Christ on campus....