College faith : 150 Christian leaders and educators share faith stories from their student days / edited by Ronald Alan Knott. [print]

Columbia International University Alumni Author.

College, university and seminary presidents, and an outstanding roster of administrators, professors, and other Christian thought leaders, share moving and instructive personal stories of how God led them while they themselves were students in higher education.

A lesson on the street / Ryan A. LaHurd -- I will not go! / Sherry L. Curtis -- Dying by denying, daring to declare / Wallace Davis -- Chapel with Bobby / Gary E. Weedman -- The way I should go / R. Alton Lacey -- Aha! The word is for me! / George C. Heider -- A freshman finds a purpose / Shirley J. Roels -- Fabrication and forgiveness / Charles M. Baldwin -- Spring panic / Mary M. Gill -- Waking up / Mark A. Noll -- Not mine, but his / Carolyn Dirksen -- Work for the kingdom / Tony Campolo -- A picture of God's plan / Jay A. Barber, Jr. -- Here am I, send someone else! / Patrick A. Blewett -- Listen for the good voice / William M. Hagen -- The Lord is my shepherd / Jennifer Braaten -- The second letter / Daniel R. Chamberlain -- Mountain of grace / Michael W. Westerfield -- The meter reader and the widow / Ronald L. Ellis -- The way of Christ in the age of Aquarius / Shirley Hershey Showalter -- My wants, his will / Wilbur Glenn Williams -- Island crisis / Stephen T. Beers -- A second chance / George W. Murray -- A few godly men / James E. Bultman -- Shining for others or shining for God / Diana Schick -- His good pleasure / Joseph H. Lechner -- Faith in failure / Vickie L. Hess -- A new kind of success / Paul A. Sears -- Oil under a hot tin roof / Dorothy Jean Weaver -- My good Samaritans / Keith Graber Miller -- Your work will be rewarded / B. Lyn Behrens -- Love in the attic and baths next door / LeRoy Lawson -- A Christmas story / Edwin B. Strong, Jr. -- Walking the walk / Lewis A. Drummond -- My cry for help / Alvin O. Austin -- One God in my life / Richard A. Hagood -- Truths that will get you through the day / Parker G. Marden -- Not like mom, just like mom / Irene B. Alyn -- Help my unbelief / Bruce K. Bell -- Duty and delight / Allen P. Schantz -- The revolution and the revelation / Frederica Mathewes-Green -- Not many noble / Donald L. Alexander -- As to the Lord / Maribeth Impson -- A class to remember / John A. Martin -- Mornings with Brother Miles / Clyde Cook -- Life squandering 101 / Daniel C. Fredericks -- Stranger at the ranger station / Alan F. Harre -- The surprising work of God / Dennis D. Engbrecht -- A sanctuary for questions / Lee Snyder -- Deaf, dumb, and the delight of the Lord / Paul Dixon -- Emmanuel, God with me / Cynthia A. Wells -- One day at a time / Anne B. Lowery -- He knew not to laugh / L. Ken Jones -- The divine surprise / David J. Gyertson -- College choice and the sovereignty of God / John L. Carson -- Always a place called home / Bryan Chapell -- Finding the smartest man who ever lived / J.P. Moreland -- Two model men / Murray W. Dempster -- Surprised by his care / John A. Anonby -- A lesson from Sarah / Elizabeth Ritt -- Rooted in love / Jo Ann Higginbotham -- More than conquerors / Patrick T. Ferry -- Beyond the small demands / Ronald E. Manahan -- The transfer and the transformation / Gregory L. Waybright -- Five rules of faithful scholarship / Mark R. Scott -- Biostatistics and a Bible class / Susan R. Jacob -- A life to live by a line to remember / Franklin M. Moore -- The short man and the long lesson / Waymon R. Hinson -- Our plan and God's purpose / Henk Van Andel -- The confrontation / Craig Williford -- A textbook case / Jerry B. Cain -- Common idea, divine intention / Robert A. Berg -- Hey buddy, do you need a ride? / Jerry E. McGee -- A faith unafraid / Robert B. Sloan, Jr. -- The lordship of Jesus / William G. Johnsson -- Finding my way / Valery A. Prill -- Trust and obey / Linda Gray -- From one thing to something else / Larry W. Nikkel -- A disciple in any discipline / Dallas Willard -- PART of a blanket of love / Terrie Dopp Aamodt -- Slave of Jesus / Bill Bright -- Finding God in man-made science / Catherine Bareiss -- Far beyond the shattered dreams / John Wheeler -- God's good thing / Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. -- On my own / John C. Bowling -- Working lessons / G. Dale Orkney -- Walk in faith / Sylvia L. Morris -- Unexpected messengers / W. Patrick Flannagan -- Difficult days and the grace of God / Arlen K. Honts -- Godly sorrow / Roger Lee Lambert -- God and the right man / Patricia B. Mutch -- Knowledge with practice / Bettye R. Coward -- Praise can't wait / Jitse M. van der Meer -- Faith outside / Woodrow Burt -- An audience of one / Stanley A. Clark -- The real story / Kelly Monroe -- Doubt in the parsonage / Ronald J. Sider -- Fleecing the academy / Paul J. Chara, Jr. -- The giving dean / Donald L. MacCullough -- Spilled soup and a directed path / Millard Reed -- A fall in grace / Jon R. Wallace -- Not less than, more than, or unimportant / Jane Higa -- Stretched, yanked, pushed around, and better / Norman J. Kansfield -- It's him! / David J. Spittal -- Delight in a God-given passion / R. Albert Mohler, Jr. -- All I wanted to do was sleep / Bruce Main -- Sight and sacrifice / Martin P. Sellers -- Becoming foolish to be wise / Lela Gooding -- Surrender on the Charles / V. James Mannoia -- A leadership lesson / David E. Schroeder -- From dry places to the well-watered garden / Alec Hill -- Living in harmony / David R. Black -- True identity / Jacqueline Schram -- Ye shall receive power / William H. Crouch, Jr. -- Typing at two A.M. / Thomas E. Corts -- Questioning faith / Merle D. Strege -- Green leaves and God's voice / Patricia Pierce Ramsey -- Guarding my heart / Brian Morley -- Broken trust, healing grace / Rebecca A. Havens -- Thank God for my junk / Michael B. Thompson -- Lifing a holy hand / Judith Fabisch -- The grace of the personal touch / Andrew K. Benton -- Changing my dwelling / Patricia L. Pike -- The work needs the body / William Robinson -- The teacher who said, "I don't know" / Jan Simonson Lanham -- A shy person's prayer / James M. Grant -- Learning to serve others / D. Bruce Conn -- The big issue / Carey R. Herring -- The next step of faithfulness / Carl E. Zylstra -- First date, lasting relationship / Stanton L. Jones -- College in balance / G. Blair Dowden -- He heard what I didn't say / Jeanine Varner -- God never calls a wrong number / Donald O. Young -- All things are possible / Bernard W. Franklin -- Trusted with little / Burnam W. Reynolds -- The call to sanctified thinking / Richard J. Mouw -- A wider view / Joyce Quiring Erickson -- Listening to the list / W. Craig Turner -- Retreat into forgiveness / Lee Royce -- Surprise at the Steinway / Peter Wilfred Stine -- He claimed me / James Womack -- Lord, I believe / Patricia P. Magness -- Peace that overcomes / Bob L. Hanley -- From dropout to president / Jairy C. Hunter, Jr. -- Hold fast to your faith / Jerry G. Bawcom -- The angry professor / Phyllis S. Karns -- What is your GPA? / Robert Herron -- Loving God with my mind / Gloria J. Bell -- The professor back home / Joseph Early, Sr. -- Jesus in the dump / Mark Benedetto.