College Faith 2 : 150 Christian Leaders and Educators Share Faith Stories from Their Student Days

by Knott, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781883925451
• ISBN10: 1883925452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Andrews Univ Pr

Summary

An outstanding roster of college and university administrators and professors, along with other Christian thought leaders, share moving and instructive personal stories of how God led them while they themselves were students in higher education. Included are first-person testimonies by Darrell L. Bock, Kenneth S. Hemphill, John C. Ortberg, Jr., Luis Palau, H. Norman Wright, and 145 more written by administrators and professors from more than 100 Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries, including Asbury College, Azusa Pacific University, Baylor University, Calvin College, Cedarville University, Dallas Baptist University, Indiana Wesleyan University, Loma Linda University, Oral Roberts University, Oakwood College, Seattle Pacific University, Spring Arbor University, Trinity International University, Union University, Wheaton College.

Table of Contents

The coach and the goldbrick	p. 2
My sweet potato man	p. 3
Worth waking up for	p. 4
The work of my hands for the glory of God	p. 6
Borrowed faith	p. 7
His promise, my obedience	p. 8
Words fitly spoken	p. 9
The pendelum and the gift	p. 11
The value of the long view	p. 12
Megas Rhodos and the joy of doing	p. 13
The leaving	p. 16
A lonely prankster and a fervent prayer	p. 17
A samaritan in the crowd	p. 19
Lost and found in a wasteland	p. 20
Faith vs. loan	p. 21
Affirmation under the stars	p. 22
Resurrection revelation	p. 23
Heavy weight for a navy man	p. 24
The two-year rebel and a lesson from the dean	p. 25
Aimless at the altar rail	p. 26
The preacher and the advocate	p. 30
Back to the future	p. 31
A far more excellent plan	p. 32
Often alone, but no longer lonely	p. 33
Blaise Pascal and a broken vessel	p. 34
Knocking on the door of faith	p. 35
This faith is mine	p. 36
Acting and waiting in the love of God	p. 37
God's ordinary heroes	p. 39
From defeat to debate	p. 39
Decision in a farm truck	p. 42
Educating my heart	p. 43
Starting with the wrong pronoun	p. 44
A prisoner of Christ in a bureaucratic mess	p. 45
Delivered	p. 46
C. S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, and the hand of God	p. 47
Culture shock	p. 48
Keeping God in the middle	p. 49
Ultimate concern	p. 50
Heaven sent	p. 51
Destiny with a big blue bus	p. 56
When the cheering stopped	p. 57
The non-neutrality of education	p. 58
Failure and flames	p. 59
He cheers when we say "I can't"	p. 61
Drums, mono, and sanctification	p. 62
Not called to preach	p. 63
Crisis in the ivory tower	p. 64
November resolve	p. 66
Yellowstone or Aramaic?	p. 67
Thinking Christianly	p. 70
Coming home	p. 71
Too late to visit	p. 72
Through the wisdom of others	p. 73
They had him all the time	p. 74
The Lord of all learning	p. 75
Treacherous waters	p. 76
Unexamined faith	p. 77
Believer at a crossroad	p. 78
Restless questions	p. 80
General ed and occasions of grace	p. 84
Apple pie and sunshine	p. 85
The treasure of a godly heritage	p. 86
To all the atheists I've loved before	p. 87
A faithful friend	p. 88
It's easier to steer a moving ship	p. 89
The fast track or the right path?	p. 90
Revering his saints and trusting his word	p. 92
"Life is religion"	p. 93
Crisis in the dorm	p. 94
Pizza, catechism, and a car named Annabelle	p. 98
The filthy flat	p. 99
The card that changed my career	p. 100
Put to the test	p. 101
Finding the God-forsaken God	p. 102
Servus Servorum	p. 103
A Christian to all people	p. 104
A plaque of grace	p. 105
The fire of God's leading	p. 107
Taking a chance	p. 108
Hanging up the cleats	p. 112
Speaking truth in love	p. 113
Counsel by the tractor	p. 114
The three longest years	p. 116
Whom do you desire?	p. 117
Called to a mission, a place, a lifestyle	p. 118
The fifth-year junior and the call to teach	p. 119
What is big enough?	p. 120
When the system isn't fair	p. 121
Family in the RA room	p. 122
Any old bush will do	p. 126
Surprise in the mail	p. 127
Shining light and awesome praise	p. 128
From cat lab to pulpit	p. 129
A wake-up call in an unexpected place	p. 130
Academic probation and the dean's list	p. 132
The myths of science	p. 133
They were Christ to me	p. 134
Blessed choice	p. 135
Do Corvairs talk?	p. 137
Wounds from a friend can be trusted	p. 140
Faith of greater worth than gold	p. 141
If God is for us	p. 142
Manna in the mail	p. 143
No strings attached	p. 144
Playing the system on the fringe of belief	p. 145
God's "reasonable" way	p. 146
Becoming what we were made to be	p. 147
Acquiring new eyes and ears	p. 148
Christianized liberal arts	p. 150
Our challenges, God's blessings	p. 154
Reckless faith	p. 155
God keeps his promises	p. 156
Everything necessary to do his will	p. 157
Rest assured	p. 158
A father of a different kind	p. 160
First be reconciled	p. 161
Making the grade less than the learning	p. 162
Launch out into the deep	p. 163
Crisis by the side of the road	p. 164
Finishing what we start	p. 168
The friendship circle	p. 169
A voice within	p. 170
God's gifts from the cherry orchards	p. 171
The wrong class and the right direction	p. 172
Teaching in the wrong place	p. 173
They never gave up	p. 174
A different kind of doctor	p. 175
Conversation in silence	p. 177
Fiction and brown fingernail polish	p. 178
Stumped in football	p. 182
From disgrace to wisdom	p. 183
Knowing the truth	p. 184
Dad's introduction	p. 185
When the unexpected happens	p. 187
Marx, Mahalia, and the showing professor	p. 188
Clarity vs. trust	p. 189
Honest questions, compelling answers	p. 190
God's big interruption	p. 191
A college of convenience and community	p. 192
Beyond answers	p. 196
The blanking moment	p. 197
The bread and the brook	p. 198
Thirsty for satisfaction	p. 199
The professor and the propertarian	p. 200
Called to be a servant	p. 201
God in the normal and ordinary	p. 202
A taskmaster calls for the best	p. 204
The god of chemistry	p. 205
The soul of fellowship	p. 206
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