Today Greg Surratt, Senior Pastor Seacoast Church in Charleston, SC, is speaking at all four services at The Journey-Manhattan. I’ve know Greg personally for a couple of years, listened to his sermons/podcasts for even longer and been a fan of Seacoast for as long as I can remember. Greg has been super-gracious to us and our multi-site expansion. I know … Read More
Your True Identity – Romans 12:3
“As God’s messenger, I give each of you this warning: Be honest in your estimate of yourselves, measuring your value by how much faith God has given you.” — Romans 12:3 Today I’m teaching a message on ‘seeing yourself as God sees you.’ I’m continuing our God on Film series with “Hancock: Discovering My True Identity.” I’ll be teaching live … Read More
The Power of Sunday
Here’s what I read every Sunday morning: The Power of Sunday Sunday is . . . game day . . . impact time . . . evangelism hour . . .resurrection day . . .prime time . . . focal point . . . the super bowl, world cup and world series all rolled in one! Sunday matters! THIS Sunday … Read More
God on Film Begins Today
I can’t wait to kick off our new series today at the Manhattan location of The Journey! This is the 7th Year in a row we have done this teaching series and I still love it! In fact, about 20% of our church says they first attended a Journey service during God on Film! Off to the first service….I hope … Read More
Attention Pastors and Worship Leaders – FREE Webinar
Tomorrow Jason is leading a FREE Webinar for Pastors and Worship Leaders called The Top 3 Worship Leader Challenges (its specifically for Worship Leaders but I suggest Pastors and Worship Leaders attend it together for maximum impact). Here’s all the details: The Top 3 Worship Leader Challenges WEBINAR Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Noon-2:00pm (EST) “Every Worship Leader faces the challenges … Read More
Bring Everyone Together on Occassion
Today we are doing one big combined worship service at The Journey. When you have multiple services and especially when you have multiple locations, I think its important 2 or 3 times a year to bring everyone together for one big service. This does several things: – It allows you to communicate vision to everyone at once – It allows … Read More
Free Worship Leader Webinar on June 4, 2008
Jason Hatley, The Journey’s Pastor of Worship Arts, is doing a free Webinar on Wednesday, June 4 on the Top 3 Worship Leader Challenges. I’ve heard him teach this live and I highly recommend it. You can sign up for The Top 3 Worship Leader Challenges Webinar here. Here’s how Jason describes it: Join us in this live WEBINAR without … Read More
Co-Teaching A Message
Today I am co-teaching Message # 3 of our Tongue Pierced series with Kerrick. This is the first time we have co-taught together in quite a while, although before we went multi-site we used to do it quite a bit. The #1 question we get about co-teaching is ‘how does it work?‘. This Sunday it works this way: I’m doing … Read More
Sunday Preparation
In about an hour I will deliver the 10am message at The Journey-Manhattan. The message is “The Art of Confrontation” and it’s part 2 in our Tongue Pierced series. I tried something new this past week in preparing for this message. I came in early on Tuesday morning and the message was sorta burning in my head (you’ve been there, … Read More
So Much to Say, So Little Time – Making the Message Stick
Most of you are probably familiar with the book Made To Stick, by Heath brothers Chip and Dan. I recently took a fresh look at one of the concepts that the brothers dive into in their “Simple” section… How many of us struggle with having to fit all the things we want to say into the little bit of time … Read More