It’s no secret that when it comes to campus life, my favorite time of the year is Spring. Not because the flowers are blooming again or it’s getting warm out (I actually prefer cold weather), but because Spring at The…

Every spring at the University of Texas campus ministries come together for a week of united worship, prayer, and evangelism.  We call it Rez Week – short for Resurrection Week since it takes place near Easter each year.  We, Campus…

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus  Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. Campus Renewal Ministries is often invited by students or campus pastors to come to a campus to share how…

If you approached me two years ago and asked me what living for Jesus looked like, I would have told you that a life with Jesus is a life of prayer. It is an extravagant lifestyle spent in intimacy with…

Romanticizing Ministry Oftentimes I believe that there is a sugar-coated understanding of the reality of Christian ministry. You know the connotations of being a full time minister, an overseas missionary, a missional community leader and other baller Christian titles. Serving the lost…

“It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem…

This week I had the joy of meeting two students from the University of Texas at Arlington.  A group of students on their campus had been leading united prayer on campus for a few years.  Recently, one of them started…

For the first time this semster, I had a roommate I didn’t choose. We had never met before we arrived at our apartment to move in, and we didn’t know anything about each other. Many college students experience this with a “potluck”…

4 days later and I still can’t believe another Rez Week has gone by. There’s something exhilarating about being together with hundreds of other students from different ministries, all unashamedly worshiping Christ as the united Body of Christ on campus….