Youth are navigating some serious spiritual terrain today! The impacts of the pandemic are only making it more challenging. My post, Urgent Need for Discipling Leadership, talks about some alarming data that has emerged from quantitative and qualitative research done...
Blog Posts
How Humility Helps Us Recognize God’s Power
Outdoorleaders.com is the official blog for Wilderness Ministry Institute. It is a pleasure to have WMI staff contribute to my blog as they are training outdoor leaders and practicing wilderness ministry around the globe. In this post, Andrew Underwood sheds some...
Whispering Willows
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.-- John 10:27 Mountains Quietly Call Me From the moment I arrived at camp I felt the mountain call out to me. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? – Psalm 42:2 Our...
Nature Inspires Us to Worship God by Revealing His Character
In what ways do you worship God? This video, made by Denver Seminary students, demonstrates how going into creation is a powerful tool for inspiring worship. The beautiful poem and soundtrack in the video are both praises to God. They are both expressions of worship...
WORSHIPPING GOD WITH AWE BY EXPERIENCING THE SCALE OF CREATION
This is where I first realized the overwhelming factor of the outdoors is the SCALE! Everything where we live, cities, etc, is human scale…3 ft. wide doors, steps to accommodate human foot traffic, 8 ft. ceilings. All of this human engineering gives me the idea that I’m in charge of this human scale world and my human scale problems then become giant.