The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. One Church on Campus In God’s eyes, there is one church on our campus. All who confess the name…

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…

Last Thursday, 22 college pastors from the University of Texas spent the entire day together in prayer and planning. Just as most churches pull their staff away one day a year to spend time talking about their vision and plans…

I wrote last week about the newly reformed partnership of six campus ministries at UT called “Renovate UT.”  Our vision is stated this way: “Renovate UT is a partnership of campus ministries seeking the redemption and restoration of God’s kingdom…

Someone I used to know is going through a rather public break up at the moment. I’m not in the habit of keeping up with random people’s love lives, but with the constant barrage of status updates popping up on…

What does it really look like to partner in mission? A long time ago, 1999 to be exact, I suggested to college pastors that we share a common database and connect our students across ministry lines to be missionaries in…

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. Trent Sheppard is part of a collegiate prayer movement called Campus America. Campus America is an initiative of 24/7…

I’ve always been a doer. If it’s a choice between doing something tranquil and quiet versus running about planning, making phone calls, and talking to people, it’s pretty much a no-brainer which one I’d choose. I suppose that’s one of…

Soiled Jeans of Glory It’s once a century that I hear a true, God-given gift of a story. They make me pee my pants when I do. I don’t mean like Aladdin—I don’t want your daily provisos, as glorifying as…