When life is unfair, do you keep a positive focus? Do you see that darkness can be used to make you deep and strong? Derrius Quarles, who was recently offered more than $1 million in college scholarships, makes it a point to use pain as motivation to go higher and further. Derrius was 5 years [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Use Darkness for Good: Million-Dollar Scholar
Posted: 24th November 2009 by Trevor in College Leadership, College Living, College OpportunityTags: college opportunities, focus, leader, make a difference, student action
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Sex and the iWorld
Posted: 20th November 2009 by Nicole in A Higher Campus, College Ideology, College LivingTags: culture, happiness, higher, intimacy, love, Prison Fellowship, sex
Mark Earley, president of Prison Fellowship, recently addressed a pertinent topic to college students: Can we be happy without sex? He holds up Professor Dale Kuehne, professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, and Kuehne’s new book called Sex and the iWorld as evidence. Kuehne regularly teaches a class called “The Politics [...]
Role Models?
Posted: 17th November 2009 by Nicole in A Higher Campus, College Leadership, College LivingTags: change, Cloud and Townsend, David Jeremiah, make a difference, not conform, role model
Do you have someone in your life that you consider a role model? Someone who has seen more experience than you have, who has been through the fire and come out again, who models the person you aspire to be, who lives for Christ in the daily life? A parent? A relative? A teacher? Maybe [...]
On the Edge or Have the Edge?
Posted: 10th November 2009 by Nicole in A Higher Campus, College LivingTags: anxiety, Bob Coy, fear, scripture
I heard a great illustration from Bob Coy, a pastor in Fort Lauderdale, FL, recently about an earthen jar. He said that from a distance, you can’t tell what’s inside an earthen jar by just looking at it. It might be water, might be coffee, might be boiling hot lava, for all we know. You [...]
Project Health: See & Help
Posted: 5th November 2009 by Trevor in A Higher Campus, College Leadership, College Living, College OpportunityTags: help, make a difference, power of one, student action, Time
Don’t undervalue your college experience. If anything, make the most of your time. That’s what Rebecca Onie, founder of Project Health, did. As a sophomore, during one of her weekly visits to Boston Medical Center, she asked a physician, “If you had unlimited resources, what would you give your patients?” The question and answers proved [...]