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...

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...

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...

  Jesus told his followers to “Go” make disciples in every nation.  On our campuses we don’t have to “Go” very far.  God has brought the nations to us.  Our campuses are filled with international students.  Since many universities are...

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,...

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...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. The Importance of an Outside Voice One way to be sure an event is a catalytic one is to...