The Natures

The Natures: A Bushel of Really Cool Music!

TweetThis weekend, The Natures performed at Saddleback. Pastor Rick preached on The Word of Forgiveness, a sermon he intended to preach as part of his “Seven Words from the Cross” series leading up to Easter, but was unable to do so then. It was a message of forgiveness from the guilt of sin. The Natures [...]

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Tired

The Internal Battles of Even the Best Pastors

TweetTruth: Your Pastor is weak. He’s flesh. He’s human, frail, and doesn’t always have it all together. He may be faithful to God and thereby filled with the Holy Spirit, but there’s always a secret side to him. He will probably never mention it in a sermon or a Deacon’s meeting. Chances are, he won’t [...]

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Unleash Ministries

Unleash Ministries: A Great Church Helping Church Leaders

TweetWhen I find a great resource for Pastors and church leaders, I love to pass it along. Perry Noble and Newspring Church have just tossed up a pretty awesome little site devoted to connecting with leaders and providing resources. Go check out Unleash Ministries.

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A Community at Huntington Beach

Lessons On Community from Huntington Beach

TweetHuntington Beach represents authentic southern California beach culture. You’ve got bodybuilders working out on the sand, skateboards and bikes covering the boardwalk, and street performers driving nails up their noses for tip money. My family and I visited there yesterday with the Krumm’s, friends of ours here in Orange County. It was a fascinating taste [...]

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Austin Stone members wrote verses on the subflooring during the remodeling process.

Take the Gospel to Your City

TweetI’ve been writing a few posts about our recent road trip in east Texas and introducing you to a few of the people we met and interacted with along the way. On Friday of that trip, we made our way to Austin and met up with some folks who are absolutely on fire to saturate [...]

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Connections

The 3 Big Questions of this Social, Digital Age

TweetI’ve decided to connect with a lot of people in a lot of different ways. I also read a lot of stuff, mostly online but also in print. And I try to write and share great content along the way. The problem is, each of these is never-ending. In other words, there will always be [...]

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Sun Stand Still

Sun Stand Still, by Steven Furtick (Book Review)

TweetAbout Sun Stand Still Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible Multnomah Books (September 21, 2010) About Steven Furtick Steven Furtick is the founder and lead pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, named by Outreach magazine as one of the top 10 fastest growing churches in [...]

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Barry Camp

Don’t Let People Go to Hell

TweetAs I chronicle some pieces of our recent road trip to Texas to meet with Pastors around the southeastern part of the state, I’m sharing some of the tidbits of wisdom we picked up along the way. We had eleven meetings over three days and essentially tried to drink all the advice we could from [...]

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David Chrzan in front of Gateway Church

The Primary Purpose of a Church Staff

TweetLast weekend, I had the privilege of traveling across part of Texas with two associates, David Chrzan (Chief of Staff at Saddleback) and Dave Alford who is doing some preparation work for some big things to come related to church planting. I’m going to take a few days and blog some of the highlights – [...]

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