90 Day Giving Challenge
Tonight, I preached on the topic of money and stewardship and its connection to our relationship with God as well as the rest of the world. While this is a topic often misunderstood and very personal,...
View ArticleChristmas Offering
Tonight I shared a little bit about our Christmas offering. I will be sharing more details in the coming weeks as we get closer to kicking it off. The kick off date will be December 4th and will run...
View ArticleOur Christmas Offering Starts in 1 Week
We’ve been talking about our Christmas Offering for the last few weeks, but it starts next week. Are you ready? Have you prayed and decided what you will give to it? This is a great opportunity for us...
View ArticleA Story from the Giving Challenge
A few weeks ago, I laid out the 90 day giving challenge to our church, which we are in the middle of right now. One of those doing the challenge recently sent me this story and I wanted to share what...
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Michael Hyatt on How to handle people who abuse trust. Can’t wait for this book to come out. Tim Keller on Politics and Culture. So many good insights in this piece, but what else would you expect...
View ArticleThis Weekend @ Revolution: The Secret of Life
As Christmas approaches, we run from party to party, store to store, crossing things off our list. We tell ourselves that it will end soon and that the season isn’t about what we want (at least we tell...
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Tim Chester on How the church is the best example of the gospel. Great video and huge implications for churches and communities on mission. Greg Atkinson on What is your vision for 2011? Too many...
View Article90 Day Giving Challenge
Tonight, we continued our series in the book of James and I preached on “How to be Rich.” The Bible does not say that being rich is wrong or sinful, just how we get rich, what we do with it, what it...
View ArticlePreaching a Balanced Diet
One of the dangers of preaching is repetition. Repetition in one sense can be good because people need to hear things several times before they understand it or get it, and a church should have a nice...
View ArticleThis Weekend @ Revolution: Testing God
This weekend at Revolution, we are continuing our series The Story of God as we look at the book of Malachi. In this book, God tells us something he never tells us anywhere else in Scripture, he tells...
View ArticleWhy does God Want Your Money?
Here is a good introduction to what we are talking about tomorrow at Revolution as we continue our series The Story of God. Filed under: generosity Tagged: generosity, giving, gospel, mariners church,...
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Christianity Today on Sex, money…pride? Why pastors are stepping down. Michael Hyatt on Why you don’t get retweeted. Discerning the idols of your heart. Guy Kawasaki on 7 reasons why your blog fails....
View Article90 Day Giving Challenge
Tonight, we continued our series The Story of God and Mike preached on generosity from the book of Malachi. When it comes to the topic of money and giving back to God, people get very private and...
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Mike Breen on Why the missional movement will fail part 1 and part 2. Mike has been instrumental in our change to missional communities and this is a huge reason why churches fail in this area. Great...
View ArticleMoney and the Vision of a Church
Most pastors hate to talk about money. People also don’t like to hear pastors talk about money. Yet, money is a huge issue in people’s lives. They mismanage it, get divorced because of it and it often...
View ArticleGenerosity is Motivated by Gratitude
Generosity. Money. Tithing. Serving. Stuff. All are things we have opinions on but few pastors move into the realm of preaching about them. I know when I started Revolution Church, preaching about...
View ArticleLinks I Like
Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like. Yancey Arrington on The grace of repenting to...
View ArticleHelp Revolution Church Fight Sex Trafficking this Christmas
Every year at Revolution Church we do a Christmas offering. This is a chance for our church to give above and beyond what it normally does and give it away to bless others and move the gospel forward...
View ArticleHelp Revolution Church Plant More Churches
We are continuing our Christmas offering at Revolution Church and today highlighted Acts 29 and church planting. Church planting is a big part of our vision and dream at Revolution. For us, 10% of our...
View ArticleLinks I Like
Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like. Dorie Clark on Why we can’t stop working. The...
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