How do You Measure the Effectiveness of Your Preaching

  How do you measure the success of your preaching?  How do you know that your preaching is effective?  And how do you measure it all? At the Journey we started thinking about how baseball teams measure the effectiveness of their offence by Runners Batted In.  We started to think about preaching in terms of RBIs—how do we move people … Read More


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The Purpose of Preaching

  This week I am going to share with you tips on developing your preaching calendar.  This has been a growing area for me at the Journey as we have innovated some ways to plan our preaching and to plan our preaching together as a teaching team. It is really an interesting thing that we do as pastors, because we … Read More


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Pastor of Families and Assimilation Needed @ The Journey in South Florida

Job Description: We’re looking for just the right “A” player to fill a key pastoral position here at The Journey Church – Boca Raton We’re looking for a Families/Assimilation Pastor to join our team – Don’t apply unless you love reaching unchurched families and Nelson Searcy’s book “Fusion” and “Connect”! However, if you’re passionate about reaching families, helping first time guests … Read More


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What Gets Rewarded, Gets Repeated (Part 3) – Mid Year Giving Statement

This past week, I have been talking about the idea of what gets rewarded, gets repeated. Now, I am going to invite you to push this idea just a little bit further. One of the things you can do in the mid-year giving statement is you can make it a celebration of everything that happened in the first half of … Read More


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What Gets Rewarded, Gets Repeated (Part 2) – Casting a Vision for Volunteers

If you find yourself lacking in a certain area inside of your Church…if you find yourself having to give energy to a certain area inside your Church, it may mean that you’ve not been celebrating that area. Because people will do, people will take next steps toward, and people will act on that which you celebrate. Let’s say, for example, that you … Read More


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What Gets Rewarded, Gets Repeated (Part 1) – First and Second Time Guest Gifts

What you celebrate in your church matters… it matters when it comes to evangelism, discipleship and life charge. Today, I want to challenge you to celebrate the right things and see a greater blessing in those areas of your church. There is an old leadership principle that says, “That which gets rewarded gets repeated,” and I think that’s true. In … Read More


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What Are the Best Books of the Year so far? Here’s my list…

Having read over 140 books so far this year, I was thinking about which were the best books.  I made a list of the top books that have inspired me and impacted my thinking, and I want to share this list with you! Here is a preview of some of the books on my list: #6 – Right Turns:  The … Read More


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Here’s What I’ve Been Reading… (see my “best of” list!)

Normally, it’s the end of the year when I release my list of the Best Books.  But a few titles have already stood out from the pack and are so impactful that I couldn’t wait to reveal this list to you. I’ve read over 140 books so far this year, but I’ve made you a short list of the best … Read More


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