Archive for November, 2006

As a teacher I am particularly interested in the long term impact of youth camps. I am always grateful for a strong response at invitations in the evening services, and we have had some pretty remarkable times of response this summer. Even more have I loved to meet and to hear later from students who [...]

NOTE: The following was published first by Tom Ascol at the Founders Ministry blog. Tom is introducing a conversation via blog between he and I. TA: This is the first of a series of “bloggersations” that I hope to publish periodically on this blog. One of the vitally important dimensions to the resurgence of gospel [...]

As Professor of Evangelism AND Student Ministry at Southeastern our focus will be, to borrow the phrase from my book on student ministry, to raise the bar. We will focus on helping both church families and nuclear families raise children who will walk into the adult world ready to live as missionaries in an increasingly [...]

One of my earliest memories of my first semester at SEBTS involved a trip to a university in our state with a brand new seminary student named J. D. Greear. J.D. and I hit it off immediately once he enrolled in my first evangelism class. He took me that September to his college alma mater [...]

I confess. I once hated youth camp. After all, I broke my hip at a youth camp and now have a piece of titanium driven into my femur because of it (we won the game, but I lost the wrestling match. It wasn’t worth it). In addition, I had seen enough stupid games, weird stuff [...]

Yesterday Johnny Hunt, who tweets as @johnnymhunt, sent out this tweet: “Great commission need with IMB, I challenge you to have a Christmas in August offering, take up a LMCO for shortfall! Who will join me? RT” Now if you do not understand the Twitter parlance I am hardly the one to craft a glossary. [...]