Category: college ministry
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Wearing Many Hats
Through the last few years, I am becoming infinitely more aware of the necessity of adaptation and flexibility in whatever environment I am working. No matter how much I desire to have things under control, or how much I want to have the requisite skill set completely mastered for a job, I continue to find…
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The Ordinary: The Rabbit and The Elephant.
We have some great students who think deeply about the church universal and the church local, and are living expressions of mission on their campus. Aaron is one of them, and I’ve been blessed to watch him wrestle with the concepts of missional community. He’s writing about it at The Ordinary, and here is an…
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Parachurch and Church | Moore to the Point
This is an interesting insight from Russell Moore about campus ministries and the necessity of connecting with a local church. I would probably take a less hard line approach than he does and value a less “formal” expression of church, as well as argue that a church needs to adapt to its cultural context to…
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CGI | Austin Stone Student in the Statesman
This is why I love doing what I do…I get to watch amazing students do amazing things. Jackie Markovich is an intern in the College Ministry at The Austin Stone, and The Austin American Statesman printed an article about her project in Sudan for the Clinton Global Initiative. Here’s an excerpt: In Nagishot, Sudan, women…
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The Austin Stone on Campus – Review
Wednesday night we gathered the students of The Austin Stone to worship on campus and cast vision for this coming semester. I preached on our call as believers to make disciples through Matthew 4:18-22 (we are called to radical obedience to a radical Jesus), Matthew 28:16-20 (we are given the task of making disciples of…
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The Austin Stone on Campus
If you are a college student in Austin, you should come join me for The Austin Stone on Campus. January 28th, 7 p.m. at the Texas Union Ballroom. You can see the event on Facebook here.
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TASCC Student Story | College Blog
I am blessed to serve some incredible students at The Austin Stone. Check out Andrea’s story.
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Relevant
A student from The Austin Stone has a story featured on the front page of relevantmagazine.com with his article “Poetry That Slams Through Barriers“. Clay Robison is a senior journalism student (by way of Chemical Engineering…he’s discovering some talents he never knew he had), and has been serving in The Austin Stone’s College Ministry for…
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Working Together
Some campus ministers have been working toward a unified strategy in reaching UT’s campus. Collaborative work amongst college ministries tends toward the abstract and non-committal variety, but God has been stirring to move the various directors toward strategic and functional engagement. As we seek to redeem and restore the University of Texas with the Gospel…