Tuesday was the first chapel of the new Fall semester. After Mike and the music team led us in several songs, we did the traditional introduction of the teachers. This year we have only one new teacher, Joey Charles, sitting right in the foreground right of the picture above. Joey will be part of our English faculty. 
Another first chapel tradition is for the president to preach from the PIU mission statement. Usually I talk about the biblical basis for our core values of accessibility, excellence and transformation. I did talk a little about those this time, but instead focused on the goal of producing “men and women with a biblical worldview for life, work and ministry.” My three points were 1) A biblical worldview must be Christ-centered, 2) A biblical worldview drives us to deeper, loving relationships with God and the people around us and 3) a biblical worldview provides the foundation and framework that the Holy Spirit “fills in” within each person’s life as he transforms us into a unique image of Christ, which then fits into the “neighborhood” to form the image of God in the body of Christ. I think the chapel provided a good start to the semester and I am ready to get it going!
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It's not everywhere that you can get away with barefoot preaching. I enjoy the feel of that tile on the bottom of my feet, too.
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