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This Saturday in Phoenix & A BIG Change Coming on Monday! Saturday: — This Saturday wraps up the fall run of the Permission to Speak Freely tour. It has been an incr...

Anne Jackson on Facebook The fall run of the Permission to Speak Freely book tour ends in Chandler, AZ this Saturday at The Grove Church. Tix @ door or online: ht...

We’ve Landed in London Here are the highlights from day one of our trip to London: We took off late last night from Atlanta for ou...

Speaking tomorrow to 2,500 students @ Indiana Wesleyan University and then GCRN Conference http://tinyurl.com/36ukkgm Speaking tomorrow to 2,500 students @ Indiana Wesleyan University and then GCRN Conference http://tinyurl.com/36ukkgmAnnual Conferencet...

Saying goodbye to directing THE STICKS. God gave our team in Ohio a huge vision to reach out like the “big churches” that were rocking it in Jesus name. Not that small is not ef...

Vince Recommends... The blog Indexed. It offers a twisted, brilliant laugh everyday. Kind of hard to describe what it is, but here's an example:

DIY: Thank Your Leaders The bottom line. We can't thank our leaders enough. It's impossible. When writing thank you cards a few weeks ago--in a moment of whimsy-...

How To Avoid Christless Christianty I’ve been in San Diego since late Wednesday for the National Outreach Convention. I speak later this afternoon on the need for God to lau...

Bring Tweets To Your Content Have you ever wanted to quote or share a tweet but had to painstakingly take screenshots of said tweet, upload them, and then embed the i...

Permanence and Poignancy You are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of s...

Trade As One - spending with a purpose Someone I greatly respect is Nathan George. Nathan is the founder of Trade As One. Nathan and his family live here in Santa Cruz and they...

The Story of Asbury Theological Seminary - Now Available! the_story_of_ats.jpg Asbury Seminary has released (October 2010) The Story of As...

Bainori Family A Homes of Hope Story: The Valenzuela Bainori Family On October 9th Daniel, Ricardo and their grandmother, Martha received a Home of Hop...

Exponential Communication & Technology Track Sessions Just finalized the Communication & Technology Track Sessions for Exponential 2011. If you do anything at a church, this is one conferenc...

Dad makes mistakes too There are a few offenses in our home that bring about serious talk, or as my four-year old calls it, “a stern voice”.  I don’t yell.  Eve...

Walking Away from Church and the Loss of Faith In a LA Times article last week, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam and his colleague David Campbell reported that more than ever, people...

Walking Away from Church and the Loss of Faith Those who can show the younger generation that faith primarily is message-driven rather than issue...

I Approve of This Message I’m assuming. I just wanted to get that out there as a warning. Assumptions are being made, right now, without hesitation. I’m assuming t...

“Do It Again!” This past weekend, I did a talk, in our “Change Your Game” series, that focused on how we’ve lost the wonder of life. Though we were crea...

The Official Letting Go Trailer!

A mission well done!!! On October 2nd the Iaomai Medical team set out on a journey to the Highlands of Guatemala with Helps International. Our team made way to ...

October 17, 2010 Sermon 10/17/2010 Organic Outreach for Ordinary People -Preparing the Soil- Kevin HarneyOutreach – Before we go out to share our faith, there a...

Ekklesia Code Update Today we released a major update to the code base. With this update there is a dramatic drop in the number of database connections requir...

Missing the Point For God’s Church, change is the point! And yet, most churches have actually entrenched themselves against change. This explains why the m...

Four Year Celebration Listen to Ken and Gabe discuss the past for years of Connect Ministries as Connect just turned Four Years Old! Click Here to Listen ...

Religious Fear or Hope Can’t teach about heaven! I wondered why Chinese Communists restrict their churches on this. I believe if you take away HOPE then they ca...

How to Increase and Respond to First Time Visitors We’re constantly looking for ways to increase first timers to church as well as encouraging the congregation to invite their friends.  He...

I’m An Orange Dad I’m an Orange Dad. I know what you are thinking…I’m brown. But I’m not. I’m Orange. Why you ask? Because I believe in the Orange Essenti...

How good is your “To Be” List? Over the years I have taught that it is more important to have a “to be” list than a “to do” list.  A “to be” list is a list of people yo...

The Externally-Focused Church Continuing on with the theme from my last blog post (go HERE if you haven’t read it), I’d like to get straight to the heart of the matte...

Bethany Bullet - September 28, 2010 “We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If ...

Love Worth Fighting For On Saturday October 2nd Highland Park is hosting a marriage seminar called Love Worth Fighting For with Kirk Cameron & Warren Barfield.  ...

The New Word-of-Mouth Marketing We, as marketers, all know it to be true. It’s the dirty little secret of marketing that most in the business don’t want you to talk abo...

What Makes a Great Campus Pastor? The following is a guest post from Jim Tomberlin, which appeared in REV! Magazine, July/August 2009. I thought this would go well with w...

Alpha in Spanish Alpha in Spanish Jose Garrigo By Jake Kim

Why I Almost Gave Up on Sex Yes, it’s true. I have a confession. Beyond this catchy title that made you look, I’d like to share with you what our team’s been going ...

A Small Church Causing Big Problems Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, leads a congregation of 50 people in Gainesville, Florida.  Normally, churches wit...

Bryan DeVorss Bryan DeVorss has lived in this area for 31 years, “All my life.” He is happily married with two great children. Bryan has been atten...

Burning the Koran: Just Because You Have the Right to Do It, Doesn't Mean It's the Right Thing to Do In spite of calls from various Christian leaders and even our commanding general from the Army, Pastor Terry Jones of the 50-member Dove ...

Holy Ground: Six Week Course Starting Wednesday evening, September 22, at 7:00pm, I’ll be teaching a six week series on Holy Ground at Christ Church in Oakbrook. If...

From Our Backyards to the Nations It only takes one passionate soul to start a movement. Think about the wave. It typically starts with a single person in the corner of...

Good Intentions If you are like me (and you are), you have many personal good intentions that never translate into actionable realities. Churches have t...

A Fragrant Offering... I love to get up in the morning, read a passage of scripture and reflect on my thoughts in a journal. Every now and then, I will read ba...

Catalyst is not a "conference" - it is about lives changing I just got back from a vacation break at the beautiful Donner Lake and a week of study and speaking at Zephyr Point Conference Center. Wa...

Apprenticing In God’s Kingdom: Part 1 Recorded: Sunday, August 15, 2010.  Speaker: Rob Laidlaw

Next Study Set for October 2010 Hi All, We will start our next book study on November 1, 2010.  We will be reading "Switch" - a very practical leadership and change book...

Allyson Norris on Facebook Celebrating 9000+ with a good dog pile... join us in a pile up... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM9jZiIPShgCelebrating 9,001 Campers in ...

Book Review: Jesus Manifesto by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola “...the question is not “What would Jesus do?” but “What does Jesus want to do now through me...through us?” Jesus Manifesto, p. 96 J...

Another Day in Paradise (Panama) -- Mike Crowley's post Another Day in ParadiseThis trip, like most so far has been a flurry of activity.  Our classes are scheduled from 2pm until 10pm, with th...

What We Really Need ... Recently Tom Steers, founder and co-director of Asian American Ministries for The Navigators, wrote a guest opinion column which was publ...

Cleaning Toilets We went out to connect with retail shops by offering to clean their toilets. We simply walked into these places with our cleaning kits in...

A Better Sermon on Babel and Pentecost I preached on Pentecost last Sunday as “Babel Revisited.”  In that sermon I repeated the conventional thinking that God punished mankind’...

Faith in Action "...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling."    Paul in Philippians 2:12One of the groups I try to attend regularly ...

Make it official Want to know more about Westover Hills? Attend a New Members Class and learn about our history, vision and core values, as well as the be...

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July build trip – July 9-11, 2010

Picking Up Other People's **** Another glorious, "I can wear shorts," day as I walk to my bench. I try to feel the pain of those suffering freezing cold temps across th...

Inaugural Teen Court A Success! An article highlighting the benefits of Teen Court was recently published in the Grand Rapids Legal News.Click here to read the article.h...

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love God. love Others. love World. Real life.  Real church.  Real family.  From Pastor Randy: October Newsletter Sunday Morning October 31, 2010 (note service time ch...