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This past week in my Foundations of Student Ministry Class (which is huge by the way and really encourages me for the future) I talked about the rise of adolescence and its damaging impact on student ministry and on men. I wrote about this in Raising the Bar, a book challenging the status quo of [...]

“I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.” I Corithians 3:2 “A decade ago teens were coming to church youth group to play, coming for the entertainment, coming for the pizza. They’re not even coming for the pizza anymore. They say, ‘We [...]

“Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.” Charles Darwin “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” [...]

I remember the first time Matt asked a question in my class. I do not remember the question. But I remember the way he asked it, and something more. I remember the look in his eyes. You know, the look someone has when they want something so badly, almost to the point of desperation. Matt [...]

I love students. Good thing since I spend so much time with them.  Yesterday some colleagues and I (I call them the mighty men of the faculty) helped a lot of new students move in. Okay I mostly hugged necks and welcomed people and let the young guys haul the stuff, but I was there! [...]

Ever been to see gorillas at a zoo?  They are big and bad and have extremely poor social manners. If you have ever been to a gorilla enclosure at a zoo you recognize the impressive nature of these beasts. The largest of the primates, gorillas are massive apes. You probably know the little joke: Sam; [...]

On this date 15 years ago I began my days as a professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. When I think about the ways our great God has allowed me to teach, to mentor, to love on students from then until now I am in awe. I watched Emmitt Smith give his acceptance speech for [...]

Note: this is taken from my ebook With: A Guide to Informal Mentoring. Download it here. “Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.” Paul, in I Cor. 11:1 Great men lead people, but greater men train leaders.” Bill Bright Andy had only been a believer a short time when he came to [...]

Do you ever go to a worship service not expecting too much, minding your own business, when the Lord reaches down and shakes your cage? That has happened to me more than a few times. A while back my friend, co-author, and colleague Mark Liederbach spoke in chapel at SEBTS. In his message he spoke [...]

If you know Latin you know this essentially means: “I don’t work, therefore I think.” It is a play on a phrase you may know, “cogito ergo sum,” or, “I think, therefore I am.” I will not take the time to elaborate on the more famous phrase by Descartes as this is a blog article [...]