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Measured in Hamburgers
I've burned off 14 Hamburgers in 22 days. There's no secret--just get up and do it. Finishing dead last always trumps not starting at all.
Remembering Dr. Larkin
Longtime Columbia International University professor and friend Dr. Bill Larkin passed away on Feb. 18, 2014 following a battle with cancer. Dr. Larkin taught for 38 years at CIU until his retirement in 2013. His life included a long list of accomplishments. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and joined the faculty of CIU after a year of pastoral ministry in Philadelphia and the completion of graduate studies in England. He authored or co-authored several books, including Bible commentaries. More information will be posted as made available .
"We're Your Friends To The Bitter End."
Every time I go for a run at home then collapse in the back yard after my final sprint, these guys show up. I feel dead; I'm sure I look dead, but really guys?
Evangelical Missiological Society to Meet at CIU
The 2014 Southeast Regional Conference of the The Evangelical Missiological Society will meet Saturday, March 29, 2014 on the campus of Columbia International University . The theme will be “Missions and Diaspora.” The conference is open to professors, students and mission practitioners. Session speakers include: CIU alumnus Leiton Chinn , (international student ministry organizer with the Lausanne Movement) will speak on “Reaching the International Student Diaspora in North America.” CIU alumnus Ken Katayama (President of Crossover Communications International ) CIU alumna Jessie Udall who recently defended her thesis, “Preparing Ethiopians for Cross-Cultural Ministry: Maximizing Missionary Training for Great Commission Impact.” CIU professors making presentations include: Dr. Jerry Rankin, the director of the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies Zwemer Center Assistant Director Trevor Castor, Dr. Mike Naylo r, New Testame...
Snow Day Workout
I'm doing: 50-40-30-20-10 of Burpee, Squats and Sit-ups. Post your at-home workout!
Jesus, Our Owner
"Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he [is] Christ's, even so we [are] Christ's." (2 Cor 10:7) If you belong to Christ, know that you are individually owned. “He is Christ’s.” Twice in his previous letter, Paul reminds the Corinthians of being “bought at a price” and with that purchase we are free to glorify God and no longer be slaves. The chains are gone! If you belong to Christ, know that you are corporately owned. "We are Christ’s.” Have you ever visited a model home? The Church is a kind of model home, a preview house of what the rule of Christ should look like, a sample of what will be. Our doors should be open to invite future residents to Christ. We are not isolated survivalists who hoard for the apocalypse of the end times, but a local version of the new city within the old city. “Now when He was asked by the Ph...
