by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | All Are Welcome, coronavirus, Holy Week, Lent, Lenten Season, PC(USA), Prayer, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), UKirk, UKirk at UTK, University of Tennessee, UTK, Virtual Ministry, Waiting, Wilderness, Worship
Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O YHWH. God, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to my voice, my cries for mercy! If you kept track of our sins, YHWH, who could stand before you? But with you there is forgiveness, And for this we revere you. So I wait...
by admin | Apr 5, 2020 | Holy Week, Lent, Lenten Season, PC(USA), Prayer, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sabbath, Sprituality, Stations of the Cross, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, University of Tennessee, UTK
Introduction “Stations of the Cross” originated in 17th century Catholicism as a way to mark the movements of the last day of Jesus’ earthly life. There are a couple different versions of the original list, and these fourteen stations are adapted from those. Holy...
by admin | Mar 31, 2020 | A big God, campus minister, coronavirus, Lent, Lenten Season, love, PC(USA), Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Social Media, Sprituality, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, University of Tennessee, UTK, Virtual Ministry
Like most of you, I have spent the past week deep in zoom and facetime calls, working with my peers to figure out a way forward, a way to navigate this unprecedented and uncertain time. We are all navigating these unsteady and shaky steps, doing the best we can with...
by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | campus minister, coronavirus, Current Events, Lent, Lenten Season, love, Love everyone, Missions, PC(USA), Prayer, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Sprituality, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, University of Tennessee, UTK, Wilderness
Welcome to the wilderness. It’s fitting that we are in the season of Lent, walking with Jesus through unknown territory. No one knows what to do here, we are all anxious, uncertain, and fearful. And yet, when I think about this time, I am reminded of an article I read...
by admin | Apr 18, 2019 | Holy Week, Lent, Lenten Season, love, PC(USA), Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UTK
We as humans are full of expectations. It isn’t really something we can help, I don’t think, but we all certainly do enjoy making prejudgments and leaning into them. We have expectations that our day will go smoothly and that our coffee will be hot. You have...
by admin | Apr 18, 2017 | campus minister, Lent, Lenten Season, love, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), safe space, student blogger, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UTK, Worship
On March 29th, the students of UKirk UTK and Vol Catholic joined together at St. John XXIII for a Moravian Love Feast, a time of fellowship and full bellies that centered on our faith communities’ unity in our mutual love of God. At first, it was nerve racking to...
