For the past couple years this blog has fallen toward the bottom of my list of things to worry about.  Entering grad school and getting married have meant that I no longer have the time to write the same type of blog posts with anything resembling regularity.

However, I would like to see this site remain active and useful.  Therefore, rather than devoting the necessary time to writing posts exclusively for this website, I will simply use this as a place to post content that I have already invested the time to create.  For instance, I already spend a good deal of time studying scripture or thinking about philosophy.  I might as well post my notes, comments and meditations here.

Therefore, the shape of this blog will shift to a more personal and less edited form.  It will primarily serve as a searchable repository for my own notes.  If these notes are of use or interest to anyone else, well and good.  If you would like to comment on them, wonderful.  If you find them inane and incoherent, pass them by.

Starting Sunday night at 10 PM, in the UK free speech area, we began with “in the beginning.” UCF will be continuing from there, non-stop, until we reach the “amen” in Revelation. We expect that this will take about three days and we will be able to end before UCF on Wednesday night. We are all taking turns with the reading, and some people are camping out over night. I am excited that we are proclaiming the word of God over UK’s campus and declaring the truth in a secular environment. All of this is to say, that over the past week I have had much bigger ministry activities than this site to worry about. Hopefully, once I get settled in with this semester I will be able to take up regular writing again. For the time being, there are plenty of articles to read back over. Come join us out in the free speech area even if it is not your slot to read. We have a table where we are handing out free bibles and talking to people so your presence is always useful.

As many of you know, this is not the only site that I am in charge of running. I have been a bit sluggish on posting to this site over the past week, because I have been putting most of my time into the UCF site. Several people have written wonderful articles for The University Christian, which is a campus newspaper that we publish annually. Rather than write something new, I thought, for now, I would refer you over to the UCF site. Take a look around the whole site, but especially check out the “press” section.

Things are once again starting up here on UK’s campus. Fall semester is always fun, and I am looking forward to the classes that I am taking. It is interesting to see thousands of freshmen pouring in to campus trying to figure out what is “cool” in their new environment. They wear their best Abercrombie for the first couple of weeks, but this is soon overcome by laziness and the sweatpants come out. I was a freshmen only two years ago, but it seems like a lifetime. God has done so much in those two short years and everything has changed. I vividly remember that first day, though. I couldn’t wait for my parents to finally leave. I couldn’t wait to be on my own so that I could do what I wanted with my life. Little did I know that a week later Jesus Christ himself would demand it from me. As we start our campus outreach, I thought I would share a bit of my story and also give some details and suggestions about what is going on around campus where students can be reached. (more…)

I just realized that this blog has been up for almost two months. It feels pretty good to have three links over in the archives sidebar. Hopefully this is the beginning of a decent site. As many of you know, I grew up in DC… well, not actually in DC. I grew up in Falls Church, Virginia, which is a suburb of DC just across the Potomac river on the Virginia side. Since I came to college, I have been home only once for a few days. That trip was really just to go to the March for Life. However, I’m leaving today to spend the next four days in DC. To be honest, I really don’t like spending much time in DC. This isn’t because I don’t like my family; I see them all the time, since they come to Kentucky so often. I simply don’t like the feel of the place. (more…)

Sorry for the lack of posts in the past two days. I was out of town attending a funeral. Posts will resume tomorrow as usual.

update: Well apparently no one wrote anything over the weekend. On the camping trip I didn’t teach after all because we got hit by a big storm. Yet again, all our efforts are for naught. Perhaps we should have thrown Jonah in the lake.

I’m awfully sorry folks, but I will be going to a camping retreat with the high-schoolers from my church this weekend. I will not be able to make any post until Sunday because I will not have any internet access. However, there is a bright side to this devastating piece of news. I have asked Garret and Ben to write a few posts for me this weekend so you should be getting some great posts with a fresh perspective.

This retreat will be focused on teaching the high-school students how to effectively evangelize. I will be giving a talk on the basics of the gospel and I hope to share a summary of what the Lord shows me on this subject.

This summer, 16 college students from LCF have committed themselves to sharing the Gospel in Lexington.  We are living together in two houses, one for guys and one for girls.  Every night of the week we are going out in pairs and telling people about Jesus.  It is our prayer that God would release his Holy Spirit in a powerful way upon Lexington and bring true revival and repentance.