Jason Hatley over at Worship Leader Insights, our partner site for Worship Leaders, has a brand new podcast entitled: Your Worship Team Can Grow … Today! Click Here to Listen If your worship leader isn’t on Jason’s list, be sure they sign-up at www.WorshipLeaderInsights.com (or better yet, take a moment and just sign them up yourself). Nelson P.S. For more … Read More
Free Sermons
Quick post this morning – I just wanted to share some free stuff with all of you. Here’s a link for you to download 3 of my sermon transcripts for FREE. These three sermon transcripts are designed to help you lead your church to be obedient to God, to live a life that makes a difference, and to focus on … Read More
Are Your Passionate About Sunday (A Sunday Quote)
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.” — Denis Diderot, French Philosopher
A “Wonder”-ous Opportunity
I have been invited to lead the Teaching Track at the Willow Arts Conference on June 10-12. The theme is “Wonder” and it’s definitely a wondrous opportunity for me. In fact, with big names like John Ortberg leading this track in the past, it’s got me scratching my head… everyone else must be out of town that week. Seriously though, … Read More
Q & A – Baby Dedication
This is Kerrick Thomas – I’m the Executive Pastor at The Journey. Nelson asked me to share my answers to the following question: Q: What do you guys do for a baby dedication? What do you read? Do you give anything away? A: For our Baby Dedications we try to make it very simple and straight-forward. After our worship team … Read More
Keep it Simple (A Sunday Quote)
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
Managing Wealth
Today I’m co-teaching a message entitled “How Do I Manage Wealth?” at The Journey – Manhattan. This is the first time I’ve ever addressed the subject of wealth. Should be fun. I’m co-teaching with Adam Bishop, our Groups Pastor (for some thoughts on co-teaching, click here). In part of the sermon, I reference www.GlobalRichList.com – if you think your salary … Read More
Church, Technology and the NY Times
The Sunday Edition of The New York Times featured a story about church and technology. Yours truly was quoted and The Journey was highlighted. While I might take exception with the statements that I quote the bible ‘here and there’ and only mention Jesus ‘occasionally’ in my preaching, the article was well done overall. I learned a lot from what … Read More
Teaching Live in Brooklyn
Today I’m teaching live at The Journey-Brooklyn. We started this location back on Easter Sunday and this is my first time being there live (shame on me!). My primary goal in visiting a location is to brag on the location pastor…and I’ll be doing plenty of that today! Manhattan and Jersey City will experience video teaaching. Since our Manhattan location … Read More
Pastor & Worship Pastor Working Together – Part 5 of 5
Jason Hatley, Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey Church in NYC with Nelson Searcy is our guest blogger this week – today he wraps up his five part series: Yesterday, we talked about the first two steps in how to create an Actively Engaged Pastor/Worship Pastor relationship, and today I will give the final two steps. Step #3 – … Read More