For Jesus, heaven is more than an idea; it’s his reality, his natural habitat. God welcomes us into his reality. But we limit his message and his kingdom to a set of principles, ideas.
My head and my heart struggle with the incongruity of a Christian faith that aligns with an imperialist power to put down evil aggression. I’m still working on reconciling this question. And yes, God is still working in me to know his power that is made perfect in weakness.
This is the final post of our Prayer Guide for Universities. There’s much more to pray about, but we offer these to fuel your prayers for what the first General Secretary of the United Nations called the “most powerful institution on earth.” Surely, if we are to complete the Great Commission, we must focus on the universities.
We focus ministry in a university setting and we pray for universities because God intends to saturate the earth with the glory of his kingdom. He has not finished, and He has not given us any different instructions.
The universities are like worship centers, where every kind of work is honored, and where the fields of study represent God’s nature as the original Communicator, Law Giver, Architect, Creator, Healer, Teacher, Counselor, and Father of all families.
We must recognize the devastating lie of shame, which drives even innocent people, like Adam and Eve, to turn from God and to depend on their own strength and wisdom to make their own way in the world.
Though broken and twisted, we still have God’s fingerprints on our identity and He still has a good purpose for all of us. Like our Creator, we can create our own universe through our imagination; God “set eternity in the human heart” (Eccl. 3:11).
The global pandemic brought on unusual government restrictions. Then like clockwork, many church leaders claimed we are in the “End Times.” Is Jesus’ return about to happen? Yes, though not likely as soon as some think
Most church-goers will occasionally see a missionary when they return for a home visit. And many churches remind us to “pray for the missionaries.” When churches do not present the Great Commission accurately, church members are confused about missions.
Follow me on a virtual prayer walk around a dark university campus. During this time of prayer for universities, let’s pray for God to turn on some bright lights of revelation so we can then take an actual prayer walk on a university campus in our area.
At the Student Centre of the University of the Nations, we are praying for students, for the heavy load they carry even through the pandemic, for their mental health, for those who are losing hope and turning to drugs and suicide. During the month of May, I prayed for a different university campus every day.
It’s time again for students of all ages to return to school. University students have had at least one full school year disrupted by the Covid pandemic. And it’s not over. The Delta variant has caused another surge and many schools are trying to find a way to teach students without contributing to an unnecessary spread of the virus with additional strain on hospitals, and possible loss of lives.
Imagine being a part of a church where you regularly hear a passion for God’s Mission.
We are sending daily prayer cards throughout the month of August to pray for universities united in the same spirit and direction.
If you are called to engage this world in response to God, you need to know it will be a battle. Just as “David . . . chose five . . . stones from the stream”, I encourage you to pick up these five stones before you declare victory.
True Hope Kenya, led by James Oliech, is seeking interns to come and assist his work with youth in a major slum community in Nairobi. Visit the YWAM Converge partner page to learn more about True Hope Kenya.
West Chester is celebrating their 150th anniversary. While praying on this campus, I thought of abiding and producing fruit that lasts a long time, like 150 years or more. What does it mean to abide in Christ? When you abide in him, what kind of fruit will be produced?
Founded in 1551 by St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome, Italy, this university trains Jesuit missionaries. Day 17 Pontifical Gregorian University – #PraytheCampus Day 17
This Augustinian learning community carries an ancient curricula that transformed Western world and gave birth to all universities. Day 16 Villanova University – #PraytheCampus Day
Poverty is not just material; it’s brokenness. Poverty, from a Christian perspective is about broken relationships, broken identity, and broken purpos Day 15 Easter University
A cairn is a marker on a path, and the marker we all need is a community – PraytheCampus Day 14 Cairn University – #PraytheCampus
Where do young believers go? – PraytheCampus Day 13 Ocean City High School – #PraytheCampus Day 13 – Ocean City High School – #PraytheCampus Day
The university is about observation and stewardship of creation. The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. Day 12 – Stockton University Atlantic City
This post is about how important it is to enter university with a sense of humility, vulnerability, and sensitivity to the voice of God. Day
Day 10 – University of Delaware. It takes open-handed leadership and discipleship. Day 10 – University of Delaware – #PraytheCampus Day 10 – University of
Sarah graduated from Elizabethtown. she joined our YWAM occupational therapy internship to a Chinese orphanage. Then she returned the following year, Day 9 – Elizabethtown
Rowan University Day 8 – Rowan University – #PraytheCampus Day 8 – Rowan University – #PraytheCampus Day 8 Rowan University. All through May we are
Penn State University Day 7 – Penn State – Pray the Campus! Penn State University is a very large land grant research university with three
Loch Haven University! Pray the Campus in your community. For Students, Faculty, and the Future. Day 6 – Pray the Campus! This small university makes
Moravian College! Pray the Campus in your community. For Students, Faculty, and the Future. Pray the Campus! This small school in Bethlehem, PA has a
Lehigh University! Pray the Campus in your community. For Students, Faculty, and the Future. Pray the Campus! Lehigh has significance to me because one of
Pray the Campus in your community. For Students, Faculty, and the Future. Pray the Campus! Did you know Rutgers University was one of the first
Pray the Campus in your community. For Students, Faculty, and the Future. Pray the Campus! Did you know Aaron Burr founded Princeton? Did you know
Pray the Campus in your community. For Students, Faculty, and the Future. Pray the Campus! First post! Stockton University. All through May we are posting
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Take the 30 Days of Vision Challenge with YWAM Speakers every day in April. John Henry, YWAM Converge director, will be speaking on April 24.
These are the ways love responds, because love is not a force or a feeling. Love is an action within relationships. Relationships do not happen without love being there.
Listen to the Missional Church Emerging series he is giving every Wednesday evening at 7pm-8:30pm in February and March 3rd You are invited to John
Missional Church Emerging. I’m excited to be scheduled to teach five sessions of the Missional Church Emerging course. These lectures will be part of the
These are the ways love responds, because love is not a force or a feeling. Love is an action within relationships. Relationships do not happen without love being there.
Brotherly kindness is common kindness. It is engaging with the world, with your neighbor, in ways that any other person with a human heart would do.
Peter’s experience denying Christ taught him that he cannot boast of his own godliness.
Watch Video Today we build on yesterday’s thought, Self-Control, to Perseverance. Peter’s second letter outlines the progressive steps toward making your calling and election sure.
Watch Video Today’s thought is Self-Control. It’s not just about control of appetites, like how often you run to the fridge during this quarantine. It’s
Watch Video In Peter’s second letter, he says we should add to our faith, virtue – or moral goodness. The faith that he speaks of
Watch Video Today we explore the root lie of all lies. In 2 Peter 1:3 the great apostle states that we have everything we need
When we return to the familiar, we often return to familiar sins, habits, addictions that have trapped us in the past.
During these last ten days of the coronavirus self-quarantine, I will be focusing on 2 Peter 1 and the primary qualities that we are to make every effort to add to our faith.
The call to leadership is a call to be crushed first. May God give you grace if you are called to lead. And remember, after you come to a realization of who you really are, return to God. Come boldly to him for grace to help. And strengthen your brothers and sisters.
Watch Video My wife and I were reading in Trent Sheppard’s book, The Jesus Journey, this morning and we came across this verse and this
I was to be leading a book study in my home during this time. It’s a book called With, by Skye Jethani. Jethani outlines five postures most people have toward God.
When you take time for something or someone, you are experiencing some of eternity.
“…priests who faithfully minister before God with prayers and intercessions for our families and communities, …”
Fellowship with just one other person, and Jesus says, “I am there.” We can count on Jesus being with us in our homes. Jesus is doing something around the world.
The path to that kind of forgiveness is to admit, like the thief, that you have sinned. It’s not an antiquated term; it’s the word we use for those acts that “miss the mark”, fail to achieve righteousness, falling short of God’s best, his glory.
Watch the video Notice the things that Jesus says. Luke 23:3 So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said
Watch the video Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying,
For this extended 30 days of quarantine in April, I’m doing Thirty Thoughts for you. Here’s Day Seven: Reset I can’t honestly say I have
Watch video Today’s thought is the word Faith. “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received
Watch video Today’s thought is the word Study. “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker that does not need to be ashamed.” 2
Watch video Today’s thought is about being Home.. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to
Jesus surrendered control by taking personal responsibility. He chose to do his Father’s will no matter what.
Have you disobeyed the Lord who calls you to Sabbath rest?
Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the windows turned from mud-colour to mother of
My son Justin David Henry is at Fuller Theological Seminary. Classes have been moved to online. He let me read his paper on John 15
This morning I wrote to a friend who has lost something precious, his faith in God. What does one do when they lose faith? At
This is great news! Xian was an engineering student at Carnegie-Mellon University when he did his internship with us in East Timorese in 2003. He attributed his life’s calling to serve the poor, particularly through solar lighting, to that summer when he witnessed the severe burns on a small child’s face when a kerosene lantern caused a fire.
I was humiliated. One year out of college, a junior auditor with Coopers & Lybrand, preparing for two years of humanitarian service with the Peace Corps, I was locked up behind bars. Finger prints, mug shots, and my name, John T. Henry, was placed on police record for loitering on the streets of Baltimore.
Paul had one of those moments. He had a social post too. The letter to the Ephesian was circulated to the house churches in the second largest city in the Roman Empire.
When I was little I used to climb a lot. My mom says she found me up in trees or on the roof of the house. I was stuck. I may have been a good climber, but I didn’t know how to get down from my high perch.
What do you think a person should do if they say they have heard from God?
The way of Christ is not an invitation to oppression, spiritually trafficking humans to fulfill the pleasures of people.
Proud preachers love religion; they use divine power to control followers.
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