Enjoying The Journey
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output] One of our desires at BASIC is to be relevant and connect you with content that is going to best help you as you serve your campus and ministry context! In an effort to bring in fresh perspective and new ideas, we have asked a few student leaders and advisors […]
What Discipleship Looks Like (Part II)
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output] This week we have Nicole Ingersoll, Assistant Advisor at the University of Buffalo BASIC, back to conclude her thoughts on discipleship in Part II. If you would like to read Part I, you can find it here. Last week I talked about the call of God on your life and […]
What Discipleship Looks Like (Part I)
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output] One of our desires at BASIC is to be relevant and connect you with content that is going to best help you as you serve your campus and ministry context! In an effort to bring in fresh perspective and new ideas, we have asked a few student leaders and advisors […]
Suffering & Success
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output] Whether we like it or not, suffering and success are closely linked together. When I was in college I came across this quote from a little devotional I picked up and it deeply impacted me. “Suffering and success go together. If you are succeeding without suffering, it is because others […]
It’s Ok To Be Wrong
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output] One of our desires at BASIC is to be relevant and connect you with content that is going to best help you as you serve your campus and ministry context! In an effort to bring in fresh perspective and new ideas, we have asked a few student leaders and advisors […]
Optimum Outreach
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output] Whether you have been an advisor or student leader for ages or you have just started, it is always helpful to get new ideas to spark creativity and bring fresh momentum to your ministry. Ultimately, you and your students know your campus best. Take a look at this list of […]
Love Your Enemies
I don’t have to look far to find someone who is frustrated, disillusioned, annoyed, or downright angry in our current social and political climate. People are losing friends over Facebook, losing respect for peers over their party affiliation, and losing hope for the future of our country. This is perhaps even more emphasized on a […]
Telling Your Story
I love stories. One of my favorite questions to ask a new friend is, “What is your story?” We all have a story to tell and our stories are powerful. They are proof that we have existed, conquered, stumbled and survived. Eugene Peterson once wrote, “ The reason that story is so basic to us […]
Fix Our Eyes
If we are honest, sometimes life just feels like it is too much. Too much to handle, too much to carry, too much to feel, too much to figure out. The weight of our circumstances can hang heavy on our hearts. It’s a universal feeling affecting God’s people from the very beginning. I don’t know […]
Ministry Midterm
Around this time of the semester, college students all over the country are studying, cramming and procrastinating through their midterms, projects, and presentations. As much as we don’t enjoy it, tests are given as a way to evaluate our understanding and progress. They are a helpful tool as the professor must decide what needs to […]