Trey Moore, a Cru Staffer (and Northstar member) taught about rest from a biblical perspective in our December Saturday Seminary. I was intrigued with Trey’s presentation so he sent me the material and gave me permission to post it here. I encourage you to take a few moments and review the Seminar On Rest. I’m confident you will find Trey’s questions and scriptural …
Neal Nelson
Neal grew up in Little Rock and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a degree in accounting. He knew even before graduating that God was calling him into ministry leadership and began taking classes at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary satellite campus in Little Rock to prepare.
Neal entered vocational ministry as campus minister at a community college in south Arkansas while finishing his master's degree in seminary. After seminary, he served fifteen years at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, AR as a campus minister before coming to Northstar. Neal also co-pastored at Fellowship Church for ten of the fifteen years. During that time he completed a doctorate in ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Neal and his wife Teresa have six children; Emma, Elijah, Ethan, Nora, Eva and Everett. Teresa works from home teaching the kids everything from math to how to defend themselves from one another.
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365 New Year Resolutions
I am not a New Year resolutions kind of person. Selfishness, envy, and discontentment have been (and remain) a major part of my sin struggle (Heb. 12:4) as a Christ follower. New Year resolutions were more often just another vain attempt to “perfect myself” which quickly became fodder for discontentment (sigh). Last night (New Year’s Eve) found me having one of those …
December Nights: The Sent Church
The last Sunday of December Nights found us pondering the faithfulness of God. Jesus sent his “unlikely to succeed” group of followers to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20) over two thousand years ago. They (or rather He was) were obviously successful because we were gathered over six thousand miles away from Jerusalem as a group of people baptized in the …
Twelve “Soul Movies” for Christmas Break
We (Alex & Neal) read Jeff’s blog post about being intentional in walking with Christ during transitions and breaks, as in the “monthish” long Christmas break most college students enjoy. The post was excellent and convicting, you can check it out by clicking here. And while we fully intend to download Jeff’s plan for spiritual growth we also talked about how …