Campus News and Updates

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work."  Thomas A. Edison WORK: JOB OR JOY? This Monday is Labor Day, a legal holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. Labor Day is a celebration in honor of the working class. The...

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure." (Hebrews 6:19a) ONE GREAT HOPE: A Letter of Encouragement to Steadfast Endurance.  With this title, Co-valedictorian Grace Minter challenged her classmates. With our having to reschedule the graduation...

“It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.” (Frederic D. Huntington,...

“Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good; he came into this world to make dead people live." (Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ) This week begins with Jesus being lauded as a king on Palm Sunday as he rides a colt into Jerusalem. The crowds...

“Our faith and determination is in the sovereign Lord who upholds and sustains us by His power and love.” from Mid-Atlantic's response to COVID-19 Who would have thought we would be talking about college campuses closing; the cancellation of the ACC Tournament, the...

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Growing up in the 1960’s I assumed that my experience was a...

“Church, we must remember that God isn’t calling us to just hate abortion. He’s calling us to value the life of a baby. God isn’t calling us to simply make abortion illegal. He’s calling us to make abortion unthinkable . . . ." (Christians, Being Anti-abortion Doesn’t...

“In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other's homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far . . . to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings - for the food on their...

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." Douglas MacArthur November 11 is Veteran’s Day. Title 38 defines a Veteran as anyone that has served in the Armed Forces and was...

“Christians experience grief but without despair, sorrow but without defeat, sadness but without hopelessness.” Tim Challies, "How to Grieve Like a Christian" All of us must face seasons of life that bring a time of separation, grief, and pain. People that we love are...

“Your checkbook reveals all that you really believe about stewardship . . . . A person who has been a Christian for even a short while can fake prayer, Bible study, evangelism, attending church, but he can't fake what his checkbook reveals.” Ron Blue, Master Your...

"Love has no exception clause. When we choose to follow God, we give up our rights to be unforgiving, to treat people poorly, or to be discriminatory." Caleb Kaltenbach The month of June is recognized as Pride month. There are Pride events held nationwide in cities...

“The society in which we live suggests in countless ways that the way to go is up."  Henri Nouwen Society.org “The society in which we live suggests in countless ways that the way to go is up. Making it to the top, entering the limelight, breaking the record – that’s...

Mother Teresa: "The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” On January 6, 2019, The Week had a feature article titled “An Epidemic of Loneliness.” In that publication the study noted that nearly half of all Americans feel lonely. They...

James E. Faust: "Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” "With Candle and Lanthorn, when the Sun shin'd I sought Honest Men, but none could I find." (Diogenes of Sinope) The prophet Jeremiah, like the...

Once a person, or culture, accepts a belief in relativism, any idea of absolute truth or morality that transcends culture becomes nonexistent or irrelevant. George Orwell once said, “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”...

What does it mean to be a follower of Christ? Dying to self daily . . . to be raised into what Christ has created us to be. What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? That’s a pretty significant question to ponder. In fact, before you move to the next sentence give...

How can we live faithfully under the authority of scripture to relate to our surrounding culture? The federal National Bridge Inventory notes that there are more than 607,380 bridges in the United States. Some bridges are iconic, such as the Brooklyn Bridge, the...