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Mountain Top IN The Valley

There is nothing like a mountain top experience physically and spiritually! Today I am leaving the mountain top experience of my yearly pastoral retreat. It has been good, it has been refreshing, it has been eye opening. But honestly I can’t stay here. It is not reality and more importantly it is not where God wants me to stay. Don’t get me wrong I would love to stay there just like Peter wanted to stay on the mountain during his experience...   &nb...

Gotta Keep Drafting!

In keeping with the draft analogy I want to say; You gotta keep drafting! Look if you’re organization is worth its salt they know that to keep a great team on the field you have got to keep drafting. There is no telling how those draft picks are going to pan out but that shouldn’t keep you from doing. And so the church has to keep preaching the gospel and as God chooses to bring people to you church through trusting Christ, transferring from another church, or choosing to return ...

Church Planting Draft

While watching some of the recent draft I began to think about the similarities in drafting and building the right team to plant a church that can turn out many different types of victories. So here are some of the types of positions you need on your church plant if you want build a great team. Great Ownership-If you are truly going to build the right type of team that is going to be competitive for years to come you have to start with a great owner. One who sets the bar and you know without ...

The Gospel Centered Life

Journey Church, we are about to start an exciting new process of replanting. As many of you know, we will be moving to a new Sunday morning location in June. The leadership of the Journey desires to capitalize on this opportunity by examining who we are as a church, our mission, vision, goals and means to accomplish those goals. Then, over the next couple months we will be focused on what aspects of Journey Church are essential and effective and what isn’t and hence can be cut away. Then ...

God shows no partiality

Listen to Peter: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality..." In the message today I shared: God shows no partiality: we have to share the whole Gospel to  all people -Share-we have to actually say it-not just think it MacArthur, how do we appraoch evangelism? With humility (bc God is the cause), obediently (bc we are the means), diligently (bc the more we sow the more we reap), and confidently (bc with God the little becomes much) -Whole gospel-life, ministry, death, ...

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The City within a City//Leif Takacs

Coming soon in 2010 The City. It’s a social networking tool for the church…and yet so much more! Don’t worry if you’re like, “Oh, not another social network site!” This one is designed for the church by the church. Here is how it helps us carry out our mission and to connect: more...

posted 02/04/10

Technology & The Gospel//Luke Emerson

We belong to a VERY accessible and technologically relevant church but not because we want people to get saved, get comfortable and wait for Jesus’ return. We have a VERY accessible and technologically relevant church because we have a message to spread and any obstacle we can remove for people on the outside looking in we will remove. more...

posted 02/04/10

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Journey Through Values//Adam Sheffield

Stop reading this. No, seriously, stop reading and clear your mind. Ok you may begin reading again, but before going further see if you can give the five values that Journey Church preaches. If you’re not a member you don’t have to pass this test, although reading on will help inform you of what our five core values are and how they shape our ministry. And that helps all of us understand better why we do what we do. more...

posted 02/04/10

Journey Through Values: Truth//Adam Sheffield

Truth seems like an obvious value, an age-old archetype that any religious organization would have, but imagine if a religion promoted itself by saying “Falsehoods and lies are what we value!” Four words for that: Re-donk-u-lus! But beyond that obvious shot in the foot, why is it that we would value truth? more...

posted 02/04/10