I finally was able to make a map of the trip so far! Here it is (starting and ending in Dallas): You can click the map to play around with it at Google. (GoogleMaps is the best. True that. Double true!) Don’t expect exactitude here! But you can see the …
Louisiana Tech, my college stop early last week, was the original site of a particularly profound college ministry event. In early 2006, the Love/Hate Experience spent three powerful (and mysterious) weeks at La. Tech, and since that time, other campuses have tried the same “experiment.” It has served as a …
Yes, Tobey Maguire’s in this update. Enjoy! Back to Headquarters I left on this Road Trip four months and one day ago, so it’s high time for a break-in-the-action! I’ll be spending the Winter Break at home in the Dallas area. The natural break in my trip, at a point …
Well friends, it looks like the semester is winding down. Only not in Ruston, Louisiana. They don’t even have semesters there. No, Louisiana Tech is a Quarter System school. That means that while most of us minister inside 2 16-week semesters, Ruston college ministers work inside 3 11-week quarters. (I …
I have opportunities tonight and this weekend to talk about what I’ve seen and learned on this trip so far. Hurray! (The events are Temple Baptist Church’s college ministry Bible study, “Store 23,” and a Collegiate Leaders’ retreat in New Mexico.) It will be so much fun to throw up …
Yesterday meant a one-day trip from Baton Rouge down to New Orleans for one of the most enjoyable opportunities of this trip so far! Dr. Allen Jackson, Professor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, had invited me down there, and he took me and some other college ministry-types to lunch …
Yesterday, I noted one of the great mini-glories of this road trip – being in the right place at the right time for lots of incredible athletic accomplishments. As if to emphasize that note, hopefully you noticed that LSU does, indeed, get to play for the Nat’l Championship – and …
One of the great joys of this trip are the quirky sentences God places in my story this year. There are moments – plenty of them – when “coincidental blessings” occur. Those… well, they make my day! And while there’s no need to overspiritualize here, each of these quirks means …
Happy Thanksgiving! I got to spend today with an “adopted family,” the Lintons, in the wonderful city of Birmingham. A great Thanksgiving. Eric Linton is the college minister at Hunter Street Baptist Church, and I actually got to know him last Spring Break, when our ministry took a Mad Libs …
After leaving Orlando this afternoon, I’m somewhere in the Florida Panhandle, and I wanted to write a quick note about my next Road Trip destination! (By the way, the next time you make a brief stop at the University of Florida, I recommend a Vespa-tour given & driven by a …
