Alpha on Campus
The Alpha approach to ministry connects with this generation of college students. Barna research has shown that 50% of Alpha attendees make a commitment to Christ (first time or recommitments). At an Alpha course, young people explore the Christian faith in a relaxed setting over a meal for ten thought-provoking weekly sessions and a retreat-like […]
A Long Adolescence In A Lame Direction? Part 1
A recent edition of Christian Education Journal, a publication of Talbot School of Theology, focused on College and Young Adult Ministry (Series 3, Volume 5, Issue 1, pages 11-27). One of the articles in this journal was written by Dr. Chris Kiesling, professor of Christian Discipleship and Human Development at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, […]
Soul Health: You Can’t be Fruitful if You Neglect the Source
Generally we in campus ministry do some level of evaluation of our program, either in a report for the Board, or for our own identifying a sense of the direction that God is calling us to go. But do we ever take the time to evaluate the health of our own soul. This […]
Setting Goals for Transformation
Finding a balance
It’s a precarious path we walk in helping students identify the areas that can help them to grow spiritually. There are two extremes: 1.) They are so eager to please those in authority that they set many goals for every area of their life. 2.) […]
Spiritual Formation
Eye on the Goal: Spiritual Transformation
The November theme for the website is Evaluation and Strategic Planning. You may not initially think of ways that this connects with nurturing the spiritual life, but I would suggest that there are strong connections for the role of evaluation and planning in one’s own spiritual […]
Previous Stories
- Alpha on Campus
- A Long Adolescence In A Lame Direction? Part 1
- Soul Health: You Can’t be Fruitful if You Neglect the Source
- Setting Goals for Transformation
- A Campus Minister’s Reflection: Students who deal with same-sex attraction
- Training Others to Lead in the Name of Jesus
- Getting the Board Out Of The Box
- The Spiritual Formation of a Wesley Board
- My Journey: Being a Worker
- Entering the Divine Classroom
- Fasting: Not Just About Food
- Prayer: Good News, Bad News
- My Journey: A Ministry of Modeling
- Kingdom Weight, Ministry Depth
- Searching Souls
- The Space Betweeen: Helping Students Make Good Choices
- Resolve
- The Formation of the College Student: How we Join Head and Heart
- My Journey to Being a Campus Minister
- New Habits Hardly Live
- The Walk
- The Apprentices: What is spiritual formation? And how does the church do it? A professor and pastor discuss the new language of making disciples.
- Americans Have Commitment Issues, New Survey Shows
- Going Deep
- Letting the Scripture Read You: Lectio Divina
- Parties as a Spiritual Discipline?
- Poetry: Experiencing the Umph of the Bible
- Turning It Just Right: The Aim of Doctrine in Practice
- Intro to Spiritual Formation section
- What Happens After We Pray?
