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...

You Just Go For The Throat I have too much ambition. I remember the first day I hit the UT campus, the snot-nosed freshman looking to change the world dressed in his high school letter jacket, seeing atheists and agnostics...

Back in 1997 campus ministers at the University of Texas met to talk about what it meant to work together to see the University of Texas transformed by the gospel.  We, Campus Renewal Ministries, had been asking them to consider...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. Campus Reaching: “The long-term, relational, and strategic process of partnering campus ministries in united prayer to build missional communities...

For the next few weeks I will write about the eight practices of missional communities, what Campus Renewal Ministries calls “Spark Groups.”  These eight practices are described with greater detail in CRM’s Spark Course, which trains missional community leaders. Prepare the way for...

For the next few weeks I will write about the eight practices of missional communities, what Campus Renewal Ministries calls “Spark Groups.”  These eight practices are described with greater detail in CRM’s Spark Course, which trains missional community leaders. Presence In The Community...

In a recent post I shared some ideas about Serving Christ as a Summer Intern. What I didn’t say in that article is that I am currently working in the co-op program (basically an extended internship) at a NASA contractor...

For the next few weeks I will write about the eight practices of missional communities, what Campus Renewal Ministries calls “Spark Groups.” These eight practices are described with greater detail in CRM’s Spark Course, which trains missional community leaders. Partner With Others...

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...

This morning I had a great conversation with my friend Colby May.  We met to discuss something awesome that God is doing on campuses across Texas and other states.  Many campuses now have Christian retreats for incoming freshman just weeks...