John Donne famously said, “No man is an island” in his book Meditations XVII.  No matter who you are talking to at Texas Tech, the consensus is that God is revealing himself one day at a time as the God...

What would you do if you lived in a country where children are taken from their family, husbands are murdered and the wives raped?  What would you do if you lived in a region where up to 9 out of...

There is a mystery to the way prayer works.  Often the Biblical commands about prayer and the Biblical narratives about prayer seem to be at odds with one another.  Prayer often feels like a two-sided coin. This semester I would...

The Overflow Halleluia! We have twelve days left to pray on SMU campus to complete our 40 days of prayer. It’s been such a beautiful experience to stand in the center of the campus and praise and worship the Lord...

Jesus the Servant Jesus was a servant. This is a pretty straight forward fact shown to us throughout scripture. Jesus washed His disciples feet. Jesus humbled Himself and became a man. Jesus, most importantly, died on a cross in the...

There’s a phrase being bandied about the web in blogs and posts these days about leaning in. There are people who encourage this, people who disparage it, and people who are just confused, and that’s okay. But for me, a...

This semester I have been writing about how prayer and mission go hand in hand.  You can’t have one without the other.  There might be no better passage to prove this than the story told in Acts 10 when God...

I have been listening to sermons online, lately.  I heard one on Monday by Francis Chan about the power of prayer, and the ability of prayer to become a lifestyle– a way of walking in love with God.  He questioned...

Have you ever found yourself somewhere and wondered how you got there? That’s exactly how I am feeling today as we are kicking off our forty days of prayer for Southern Methodist University here in Dallas.  It’s been a five-year...

This semester I’ve been writing about how prayer and mission are inseparable.  Sometimes the prayer people can look at mission people and think, “You’re all about planning and strategizing, but you need to pray so you’re not operating in a...