We’re looking for just the right “A” player to fill a key pastoral position here at The Journey Church in Boca Raton, FL. We’re looking for a Pastor of Teaching, Families and Children to join our team – Don’t apply unless you love reaching unchurched families and Nelson Searcy’s books “Ignite” and “Connect”! However, if you’re passionate about reaching families and … Read More
Lessons from our 10th Anniversary at The Journey
On Sunday we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of The Journey – what an exciting day! In the midst of the excitement, I couldn’t help but think about our humble beginnings… In fact, I keep thinking about one particular day, about 6 months after we launched. I was walking home from our Sunday service at The Journey. Our attendance had gone from … Read More
How You Can Celebrate and Raise the Value of Baptism in Your Church (FREE Video)
In case you missed it, this week I’m celebrating our recent Beach Baptisms at The Journey by giving you some tools to help you Baptize more people in your church. Today I want to tell you about a POWERFUL (and underused) technique to challenge and motivate more people to be baptized… THE BAPTISM VIDEO! There’s nothing like seeing people experiencing the joy … Read More
How to Hone Your Church’s Systems for Maximum Impact – Part 2
On Friday we started looking at the deep impact that each of the 8 systems plays as a crucial part in seeing God move in our churches. We’re taking a multiple part blog series to evaluate a recent story sent to me from John Newland, a 3 time coaching participant and the impact he saw on his Big Event because … Read More
Prayer Request – Launching The Journey – Boca Raton this Sunday
If you’ve been reading along this week, you know that this has been “Church Planting Week” on the blog. There are a couple of reasons for that: 1) we had a huge church planting webinar on Tuesday (thanks again to the over 1,000 pastors/planters who attended), and 2) I’m in the middle of a powerful church planting week personally. As … Read More
Multi-Site Q & A – Equipment?
Here’s a recent equipment Q & A that our Worship Pastor, Jason Hatley answered for a member of the CLI family: Q: Our church is looking to do a satellite campus next year very similar to what you’ve done at The Journey. We’re really pumped about going multi-site and expanding our ministry in that manner. In prepping for this transition, … Read More
One in a Million
Looking for a mission trip for your church this summer? I want to invite you to bring a team to New York City this summer for a Servant Evangelism Mission Trip! The Journey has launched our ONE IN A MILLION project to touch the lives of ONE MILLION New Yorkers through Servant Evangelism in 2009 and I want you to … 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
Finacial Peace @ The Journey Today
Today we are kicking off an 8-week “Financial Peace” series. We planned this series in November 2007! We had no idea when we did the preaching calendar that we would launch this series in the middle of one of the greatest financial downturns ever. Only God! Today I’m teaching live in Manhattan for all four services and our location pastors … Read More
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