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<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/75333098?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="650" height="365" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> Join us this spring for The LIFT Tour, a world-class weekend experience that will challenge your students at all points in their spiritual walks to forsake selfish dreams, desires and demands, and embrace a Christ-centered lifestyle. Coming to a city near you, these high-energy events focus on on […]

September 17, 2013 By Brad Hobbs It seems as though whatever social medium is used we, as influencers of students, seem to be one giant chorus lamenting the culture that our students are swimming in is drifting towards Sodom. There are two words that those of us who are trying to make a difference must […]

Two years ago, I was introduced to a gentlemen that would soon become an incredible friend. While sitting over a table full of fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes and sweet tea, I had no idea that our conversation would deeply impact the trajectory of our ministries. Dr. Ed Newton is a well-established preacher of […]

September 4, 2013 By Brad Hobbs I live in a nation that feels a profound and sacred obligation to defend the human rights of individuals around the world. In the course of world events, that obligation or feeling forces the United States to ask often, and think deeply about how we as a people must […]

One of the first principles of leadership and ministry taught to me seven years ago when I officially came on staff at Student Leadership University was by Dr. Jay Strack. This principle was, “all of us are smarter than any one of us”. Simultaneously, the idea that we can accomplish more together than on our […]

For over 10 years, the Lift Tour (formerly Leadership Rocks) has provided Student Leadership University with the opportunity to influence tens of thousands of students to maximize their impact with gospel-centered preaching, worship and a focus on leadership development. The Lift Tour provides platforms for students from across a community to gather together in a […]

It’s August. You have survived the insanity and greatness of summer student ministry.  I am always impressed by the guys who just get it done summer after summer, the ones who run hard and serve well.  As you begin to breathe again after the past couple of months and the half-day off you had the […]

The Bible is a story.Correction, the Bible is the grand story of the universe; it is the one story that gives all other stories their meaning and definition. I can recognize the bad guy or the hero in any story I read, hear or watch because another story, the Bible, has already defined the concepts […]

Learning to Use the Gift of ImaginationFrancis Schaeffer, a Christian philosopher and church leader who died in 1984, was a prolific and prophetic writer on Western thought and culture. One of his most popular books, How Should We Then Live.?, opens with these words:There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted […]