by Emily Snell | Apr 17, 2012 | News Slider
Veggie Tales creator Phil Vischer shared his insight on business struggles, relationship with God and how to deal with failed dreams when he spoke Tuesday morning at the 2012 Tennessee Prayer Breakfast in Allen Arena. Phil Vischer, creator of Big Idea Productions and Veggie Tales, was the featured speaker at the event, which annually serves as an opportunity for citizens and officials to pray for Tennessee’s leaders and residents. This was the second consecutive year that Lipscomb has hosted the event. Vischer spoke about the downfall of Big Idea Productions, which filed for bankruptcy in 2003, and what it taught him about life and his relationship with God. Vischer said he thinks the company went down due, in part, to his emphasis on huge goals and ideas that weren’t in line with God’s plans. Vischer said God told Him that he needed to learn to be content resting in God instead of being busy working for God. “He didn’t call me to change the world; He called me to obedience,” Vischer said of what God taught him. Vischer said he realized he was so focused on saving the world that he was making himself miserable and damaging his Christian testimony. “God didn’t let it all fall apart because he didn’t love me,” Vischer continued. “He let it all fall apart because he loved me so much and he wanted to save me from myself.” Vischer said he realized that doing good things isn’t good if it causes you to sacrifice walking with God. “The impact God has planned for us doesn’t occur when we’re pursuing impact; it occurs when...
by Emily Snell | Apr 17, 2012 | News Slider
The Financial Aid Office will host a “Meet the Staff” event Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the courtyard between Crisman and Fanning. The staff will be available to meet students and answer questions and will also have snow cones, food and other items to give away, including a $250 scholarship for textbooks from the Lipscomb bookstore. Tiffany Summers, director of Lipscomb Financial Aid, and Maggie Kersten, assistant director, said the event is designed to give students an opportunity to meet financial aid counselors and to understand the office’s mission and the resources they offer. “We really want students to feel welcome and to know our staff,” Kersten said. Summers and Kersten both said they understand the difficulties of paying for school, and they want to help students. “We want to partner with the family and the students,” Kersten said. “Even if we can’t give them money, we want to give them options.” “We realize and appreciate that it’s a big sacrifice for families, so we take very seriously caring for our students,” she said. “Our doors are open,” Summers said, “and we’re willing to talk and see what we can do to help them.” The Financial Aid Office is located in the basement of Crisman and can be reached via phone at 615.966.1791 or email at financialaid@lipscomb.edu. The Financial Aid Office staff includes: Tiffany Summers, director Jimmy Morris, associate director Maggie Kersten, assistant director Deidra Cummings, financial aid counselor Tamera Spivey, financial aid counselor Donna Taylor, financial aid counselor Julie Lillicrap, receptionist Denise Forgette, technical...
by Emily Snell | Apr 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
We’re starting a new aspect of our website… and we need YOUR help to make it awesome! We want to hear about your life–awkward moments, dumb jokes, embarrassing situations, inspiring thoughts or soap box speeches. Send it our way. The Fuss Forum is a student-generated column that allows you to complain, tell random short stories, applaud your friends, or say whatever you think the rest of campus should hear! Send your stuff to luminationnetwork@gmail.com and it could appear on the site. We’ll publish student content once a week in a post that includes all appropriate submissions we receive. Keep a few stipulations in mind when submitting content in order to make sure we can publish what you say. No swearing. No comments that would libel, slander, defame or degrade others. No falsified information or sensitive/private personal information about yourself or others. Don’t mention anyone specifically by using his or her name. Yes, each statement will be anonymous, but use discretion. Keep it entertaining, and have fun! To get you started, here are some examples of comments you might submit: The next time Stroller Strides takes all the prime parking spots, I’m starting a baby carriage protest. If I had a dollar for every time someone cried on stage in chapel, I’d be filthy rich. Not cool, Blue Coast. Not cool. A bird pooped on me while walking to my biology test. Nature is not my friend today. To the cute guy I crashed into in Swang lobby, thanks for being so nice about it…and meet me there again on Tuesday. If David Lipscomb was alive, he’d only require...
by Emily Snell | Apr 2, 2012 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s chapel office has scheduled daily activities to help students reflect on the last week of Jesus’ life, prior to the celebration of Easter next Sunday. Assistant Campus Minister Keela Evans said the staff wanted to create events that mirror the life of Christ each day of his last week on Earth. “We really wanted to walk through what the week leading up to the cross was,” she said. “We wanted it to be a teaching experience for our students, not just events, but letting them see the week leading up to Easter.” Evans said the campus ministry staff intentionally designed the events to give students an opportunity to experience Jesus. “There are some students on campus that don’t know Jesus at all and don’t believe, and we want to love them and honor them but share the gospel with them,” she said. “We want to really focus on community repentance. It’s not just about my sins, but it’s about us as a community walking toward the cross together.” Evans recognized that students who’ve gone to church their entire lives can find it difficult to deeply engage with annual holidays like Easter. She said she identified with that problem until a few years ago when her perspective changed. “This is the day we celebrate Jesus being absolutely free from the grave, free from death, beating death and being raised and resurrected,” she said, encouraging students to soak in the reality of Easter’s meaning. “It’s more about knowing that the Holy Spirit raised Jesus Christ himself from a murdered death. And now he is living among us, he is living...
by Emily Snell | Mar 29, 2012 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb softball team was robbed in San Francisco Sunday night while doing some site seeing at the conclusion of its spring break tournament trip. After traveling back to San Francisco from one of their games in San Luis Obispo, the team went on a night tour of Alcatraz and then out for dinner. When the team returned to the vehicles around 10 p.m., the girls said they saw glass on the ground and then realized that two of the four team vehicles had been broken into. “I freaked out and I immediately looked to see if my computer had been taken,” said Vanessa Medina, a senior public relations major. Medina was one of the lucky team members whose stuff was not stolen, but five others were not so fortunate. Brianne Welch, a freshman communications major, had her backpack stolen, including a Mac laptop, which she had just purchased in August, and a Kindle Touch, which her mother had purchased as Welch’s birthday gift only two weeks ago. “I felt like I was kind of in shock a little bit,” Welch said. “I called my mom. I cried; I don’t think I’ve ever been so mad before.” “As a collective group of girls, we were just so angry,” she continued. “It’s a terrifying feeling. You feel violated.” After realizing they had been robbed, Assistant Coach Lexi Myers called the police, and then the team waited in the parking lot nearly two hours before they arrived. “[Myers] was great when this happened,” said Bridgette Begle, a sophomore, whose stuff was not stolen. “I felt secure while I was there. She...
