numbers of the day

1: number of parking tickets earned at ODU today

8: the number of buttons on our new blender

7: the number of attorney letters I’ve gotten since they released information on who got $177 tickets in NC this weekend (2 days worth of mail).

6: the number of different batteries Tyler is charging for a very important and secret photography assignment tomorrow (it involves a diamond ring…!)

7: the number of students I ran into today in the dining hall of ODU who had just received applications for leadership.  They had big smiles.

I realized something about Tyler today– as soon as he gets something new, he wants to use it right away.  Hence the 10:30pm smoothie

fighting for the Kingdom?

Pray with me… for some reason, God loves it and honors us when we pray.  Our prayers go up like a sweet scent to Him.

I need wisdom and spiritual discernment in several things right now.  Pray for me as students are asking about spiritual warfare, wondering if they are under attack, how to know, and what to do about it.

Pray for students who are making big decisions this week!  Robert is going to interview for InterVarsity staff.  Leaders are nominating new folks for leadership of next year’s small groups, worship and Crash team. Younger or new folks who are nominated will decide whether to apply for leadership!

Pray for my current leaders- they are such special people, and they all have a place in the community.  But as they look towards next year, it can be fuzzy what the next step is.  For some, they will continue to lead in the same position.  Others will move into different places of serving and leading in IV, and some might step down from that role.  Pray for loving, honest conversations about these things.

John Piper on prayer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzZJChhtvY

Your Kingdom come, Your will be done

I just had one of those whirlwind moment/ days on campus.  I’m typing this in the lounge area of Batten Arts & Letters building, realizing just how real this campus ministry thing is.

It’s real when I have my weekly meeting with a student, but started late so we decided to walk over to the place where his class would start and meet there instead.  Sitting and hearing about the past week having a friend ask big questions about prayer, hearing a sermon about prayer, and realizing he had signed up to lead this week’s prayer time (oh yeah, it’s called TGIF).  After he went to class, I ran into 4 students who were on their way to a World Religions class.  I have heard about this class, these students, their frustrations in the class, their commitment to pray with each other before the class.  I just happened to be standing there, talking about praying for the Kingdom to come on campus.  So I joined them… in prayer!

“Lord, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”

Things I learned in College

I saw this blog post by ze frank and thought of the 2682 freshmen who just finished their first week and a half of classes at Old Dominion….words of wisdom include “One cannot survive on ramen noodles alone” and “when preparing for an exam, two liters of Mountain Dew is not a good substitute for 8 hours of sleep”

http://www.zefrank.com/college/index.html

What did you learn in college?  What advice would you give freshmen?