Jerry Varner
Jerry Varner has been in student ministry for 15 years. He's the Student Ministry Pastor for Discipleship & Ministry Development in the Richmond, VA area.
He likes to think about running but not actually do it.
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I had just finished a delightful lunch with my family at Wendy's. My wife and kids were heading out to the car when I got the feeling that before we left, I should probably "go". So I trotted m...
I was born into the world of fulltime student ministry with the proverbial cape on my back. Fresh from college, dripping with naivete, but passion unmatched by any mortal, I burst onto the student ...
I recently broke my toe. I was goofing around with my oldest daughter--we play this game in our house that whenever two people are going up the stairs at the same time, the one going 2nd must chase th...
(Written on Sunday, July 27th)I'm blogging tonight from Jaco, Costa Rica. I've been here with some of our high school students for the past week. We've renovated a community park wher...
Last week, I took a large group of pretty typical middle school students and a handful of quite extraordinary adults to Kilmarnock, VA for our middle school mission trip. It is a trip we tend to make ...
While I'm sitting here typing, my wife is running. She's a runner. And while I love that about her, I don't really get it. I understand it logically/cerebrally, but not in any other way. And it turns ...
The Sunday paper. Our next door neighbors get it delivered every week. It was just a newspaper. But yesterday, it became the centerpiece of a powerful reminder from God.Yesterday was Sunday. My wife w...
So there I was, standing next to my locked car. Staring at the keys laughing at me from the driver's seat. I had pulled into the bank parking lot, had apparently put my keys in my lap while I s...
I went to Starbucks today. The reason? One free drink with my name on it and 20 minutes of an armchair with my behind's name on it. Let me back up.I went to Starbucks last week. I ordered a tal...
I got an email recently that was lengthy, kind of preachy, and quite predictable in its ending.
Apparently, the amount of love I have for God is linked directly to how many people I forward ...
