The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. College Ministries Before For a long time campus ministries competed with one another. Students would talk among themselves about…

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…

This past week Campus Renewal Ministries staff spent several days together in New York City praying and planning toward the year to come. We are a small team compared to many campus ministries, but God is using us to create…

The topic this week will be works; what do my works really mean, now that my flesh has been crucified? Am I still functioning as I was before, or do my actions have their genesis from another entity, such as…

I’m taking a class this semester called “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement.” It’s an intriguing course about cross-cultural evangelism, or what has traditionally been called “missions.” There’s no way I can summarize the class in one post, so I…

A few weeks ago, I walked into the office ready to begin another week only to have some of my interns and student leaders (most of whom are Asian) inform me that my Asian card had been temporarily revoked. Why?…

“Before God can use you greatly, He must test you deeply.” This is what caught my eye today amidst the many facebook status updates on my newsfeed. That’s the neat thing about being facebook friends with pastors and other people…

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…

A couple of months ago, my best friend Andre and I started up a bible study for the Christians in our missional community. It’s our way of making sure we have time to connect with one another on a deeper…