Archive for the ‘Messages’ Category

My Interview With The Devil
July 23, 2010

We are currently in a series at RVC called FAQ. We’ve been getting our community to submit questions and have been answering them from a biblical perspective. The questions have been great and it has been a lot of fun answering them. It’s clear the devil has a lot to say on these issues. I [...]

Shane Claiborne at Exponential
April 27, 2010

I still have lots of notes from Exponential last week that I haven’t posted.  There was a lot to process. What I enjoyed about the conference was the diversity of content and speakers.  You had guys sharing from mega-churches to house church movements, to anywhere in between. Shane Claiborne shared one of the afternoons on [...]

The New Covenant
January 29, 2010

Credit for the clip at the end goes to Churches Helping Churches.

Killer Stuff From Keller
December 3, 2009

Tim Keller is a hero of mine.  He’s an amazing teacher, writer, leader and pastor.  Everyone should read the book The Reason For God.  Keller pastors a church in Manhattan and has planted about a bazillion churches everywhere.  He recently did a talk at the Gospel Coalition on the Gospel and Idols.  There is definitely some good [...]

Grace
June 1, 2009

Preparing for tomorrow at EMG.  We start a new series called God Is… Tomorrow we will be talking about Grace.   God is Grace. Grace is… “God the Father in love doing good for ill deserving sinners through God the Son by God the Spirit” – Mark Driscoll To be honest I can’t even wrap [...]

Stop Apologizing
March 25, 2009

I had lunch today with a great friend and key guy on our youth team.  He’s growing tremendously as a young man and he called me on something that I though was appropriate. We got talking about 5 Questions in 30 Minutes from last night and he said to me… “Quit apologizing for speaking truth… [...]

God Make Us Leaders
June 23, 2008

Had a great weekend!   Friday morning I went golfing with my dad.  He hadn’t golfed in 30 years but did really well!  We’re looking forward to playing a couple times a week together.  It’s a great way to hang out, get exercise and work on our game. Saturday we helped Bev and Dom move. [...]

The Gospel
June 3, 2008

I listened to a good teaching from John Piper this morning on the Gospel.  He was speaking at the Text and Context conference that theresurgence puts on.  He made six points in which he says if one is missing then it is no longer the Gospel. 1 Corinthians 15:1-5   1)     The Gospel is a [...]

Fear
January 26, 2008

FEAR “God has not given us a spirit of fear but of LOVE, POWER, and a SOUND MIND.“ 2 Timothy 1:7 1) Replace fear with LOVE Matthew 22 – The Greatest Commandment 2) Replace fear with POWER Acts 2 – The power and presence of God 3) Replace fear with a SOUND MIND “Tell me O [...]

Press On
October 30, 2007

Tonight we conclude our Heroes sereis as we look again at the apostle Paul.  We will be talking about “Pressing On”.  I will be showing this video as part of my message.  It’s pretty powerful.