What Do The Backstreet Boys, ACDC, And Benjamin Have In Common?
Monday, March 26, 2007
What we have in common is one glorious night at Wheaton College during the Senior Banquet. Me and 8 other guys from the French House fullfulled our life dream of playing a live rock show in front of all our friends. I feel it is absolutly necessary to post this video for posterity's sake, for your enjoyment, and so that other people can back me up when I'm 60 and tell my grandkids that yes, I too was once cool.
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Hail, Alma Mater, let me tell you what the Lord has done
Friday, November 03, 2006
Alma Mater - Nourishing Mother. It was hard for me to understand the meaning of this cryptic Latin phrase until I actually had one, and then the description of "nourishing mother" only scratches the surface on how formative those four years really are.
I have been given a special gift - an invitation by my own Alma Mater, Wheaton College, to come and visit with students and share about InnerCHANGE the order. I'll be on campus Saturday through Wednesday participating at World Christian Fellowship on Sunday night, and meeting one-on-one with students throughout the week. I am excited to hear the stories of what God is doing in students right now, and to be able to encourage them and pray for them.
Please pray that God would be speaking to students and using me to confirm where God has been leading them. I need wisdom and discernment as I talk and pray with people. Also, ask with me that God would raise up workers for his harvest fields, as Jesus described it; even that people would be inspired by this one visit to pursue InnerCHANGE or a similar vocation. I know God does this, because He did it for me a year and a half ago! InnerCHANGE shared at World Christian Fellowship on campus and it changed the course of my life.
It can happen.
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Journey Log 2 - Wheaton
Saturday, September 02, 2006
I had a fantastic time for 48 hours in Wheaton. I stayed with some of my old suite-mates and saw generally a whole lot of people, more than I could have hoped. By the end of the first day I wasn't tired of telling why I was there, but my body was exhausted from interacting with so many people in so short a time. Thanks to all of you who stopped to chat and apologies for those I didn't run into! The entirely new Fischer dorm looks great, Saint and Elliot are now a field of dirt, and Bon Appettit is still serving the best food ever. Ahhh...all is right in that part of the world.
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Graduation!!!!!!
Friday, May 19, 2006
^Mark, Me, and Mike. Freshman year floormate and roomate.^
Yeah, I graduated. I now have a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Media Studies. Anyone want to hire me?
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French House Forever
These are my boyz - I was adopted by the French House at the beginning of the school year and they helped me get through the year. Hats off to you, gents.
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Goodbye World Christian Fellowship
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Tonight is my last night at World Christian Fellowship; a weekly, student-run service of Intercession, Celebration, and Mobilization for the church all around the world. As one of three rotating worship leaders, I have had the privaledge of leading worship every third Sunday night this year.
Creating music with a team of talented musicians is one of the funnest things I can think of to do, and combine that with the ability to lead a group of people into the presence of God - it is quite exhilarating. Not only this, but the gospel is demonstrated to me in a powerfully personal way when I stand in front of a group of people, fully aware of my sinfulness and weakness, and I can worship God anyway out of love and obedience. At those times, God's Spirit works mightily despite my fallen humanity.
It's hard to explain objectively, but putting on the mantle of being a worship leader does make me feel like I'm in a pastoral role, and the weight of that responsibility weighs heavily on me as I plan and lead. It keeps me accountable to my spiritual health, as the lack of communion with Christ is very noticeable to me when I'm am preparing for a night of worship. I enjoy the pastoral part of leading worship as much as the music part - the ability to teach and lead in an encounter with Christ in a way that helps the church mature spiritually.
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Back In Wheaton!
Saturday, August 13, 2005
I've arrived safely to school and just returned from a week retreat in the North Woods of Wisconsin with my RA staff for the year. I am excited to serve them and encourage them in their ministry to their floors of underclassment.
Something I have been recently excited about and led to pursue is the ideas stated in the book "The Master Plan of Evangelism" by Robert Coleman. It might be called the "master's plan of evangelism" because it explains the lifestyle of Jesus as evangelism through discipleship, focusing his attention and teaching on His twelve disciples. I have felt God calling me to step out this year and start to give and lead in this way. For most of my life I have always wanted to follow, listen, defer, and wait. While keeping this same attitude, I feel God has been working in my life to prepare me to now act, lead, speak out, and challenge.
One of the ways I hope to pursue this over this school year is to start discipling some younger men. This is not something I can really recruit for, so I have decided to pray in faith that God would bring men to approach me who have see what God has been doing in my life and want to ask for some form of a discipling relationship. Please pray that if this is God's will for me He would bring these guy(s) into my life.
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