Your Journey Blog

Free Tim Keller Sermons - Great Resource

Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York has opened up a new free sermon resource, starting with 150 of Pastor Tim Keller’s sermons, all categorized, labeled, and downloadable, at this site:

• Download Tim Keller's Sermons

Here’s more info from the site:

Redeemer’s Sermon Ministry has been faithfully recording, cataloging and reproducing all of our sermons for the past 20 years. To celebrate all 20 years of our history, and to meet the growing demand for our church’s teaching in New York City and around the world, we have created this resource of 150 sermons and lectures covering a broad array of topics, completely free to download and share.

The recordings chosen for the Free Sermon Resource were culled from classic sermon series as well as lectures and seminar addresses delivered to various Redeemer ministry gatherings, and are intended to present to the listener the full scope of teachings they would receive over several years of active involvement at Redeemer.

This is an amazing new resource, and there will be more content getting added regularly, so tell all your friends: Redeemer Free Sermon Resource.  (HT)

The Painted Door - A New Converge Church in Chicago

Mark & Acacia Bergin are Planting The Painted Door in Chicago, IL with Coverge MidAmerica and Acts 29  Find out the meaning of this new churches name though this excellent video.

The Painted Door, an introduction from Mark Bergin on Vimeo.

GoD and DoG - Video

This is for all you dog lovers out there who love God! Enjoy!

Lent Video - Just for Fun

A Christmas Must See!

Updated Spiritual Journey Guide is Here!

Over the last couple of years I have been working on updating The Spiritual Journey Guide, moving it from a 90's feel to more of a new millennium feel.  After gathering many ideas from several avid users of the tool we have made some tweaks and changes to this 'spiritual conversation tool.'

The first major change is that it is square in  shape and looks more like a CD cover.  Daniel Montgomery of Sojourn Church in Louisville, KY made this suggestion. Thanks Danny! 

Another change is that we have real people reflecting each stage of the journey. It was tough but I the let the "alien heads" go!  We made the print more readable on the inside and also changed and tightened up some of the language to reflect more of a missional and gospel centered approach. Thanks to Darryn Scheske of Heartland Church, Fishers, IN, Geri Bourget our graphic artist, Dave Wetzler and Bob Rummel of ChurchSmart Resources.  Finally, a special thanks to my wife Mary who makes me look better than I am.

To get a sneak peek you can Download NewJGSample. 

To take advantage of the Pre-Order Sale you can Order Here.

Sowing Seeds of Love Into Your Community

Sowing seeds of Christ's incarnational love into your community is a key characteristic of a missional church.  NorthBridge Church in Antioch, IL, at their one year anniversary banquet, raised $17,000.00 to give into their community and cast the vision for three other churches to simply love a local struggling school district by turning a useless, old school building into a functional classroom.  Here is the newspaper article on the project: Download NorthBridge School Article.pdf

A few take aways:

1) There are hurting organizations in your community.  Open your eyes and ears to see and hear the hurting.

2) Ask people how you can help them.  Don't tell them what you want to do.

3) Don't do it alone.  Involve the larger body of Christ.

4) Love them unconditionally in the name of Jesus.

5) New churches can make a big difference!

Take a look at the Expansion of Christianity

I found this and thought it was interesting even though it doesn't show the expansion of Christianity in China and India. Here is the source: Maps of Wars

Storyline Church Nashville

Jer Dunlap has a cool video idea for this Easter as he builds his launch team in Nashville.

Satan uses Turbo Tax

LifeChurch offers another great video "Satan uses Turbo Tax".  Check out all their free resources on Open their free resource site.  If you don't use them they will just sit there.