Tim Keller Profile

If you haven’t ever heard or read Tim Keller, let me encourage you to do so. He’s the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, and he’s been doing ministry there in a missional fashion before it was even cool to say “missional.”
But here’s the thing about Keller: In a landscape of church-planters wearing black [...]

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Passion 2010

The Passion Conferences have played a huge role in my spiritual development as a college student and young adult.
It was at Passion I first heard John Piper speak.
It was at Passion that I first heard about God’s desire for His own glory.
It was at Passion I first got upset with John Piper and with God’s [...]

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Communion

This is a video we produced at Threads as part of the leader kit for our upcoming release called Sacred Roads by Heather Zempel. I think it’s a great resource to use to bring about a reflective mood surrounding the taking of Communion. If you want to use the video in your ministry, you can [...]

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Connect Conferences

more about “Connect Conferences“, posted with vodpod
This fall I’m going to be participating in leading a series of conferences called Connect. These unique gatherings provide a focused discussion about reaching and keeping young adults.  Our hope is to provide an intimate opportunity for key leaders to:
* learn more about young adults
* understand some of [...]

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Walking at Collegiate Week

Right now, I have the honor of speaking at National Collegiate Week, and I’m sitting in North Carolina with about 400 college students and workers. The theme of the week is “Permeate,” and I am tasked with expanding that theme from the word of God. 
The particular direction we wanted to go with the theme was [...]

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Sermon Video: Friends with Money

In case you’re interested, here’s the video from the sermon I preached on Sunday at Friendship Community Church. Great people, and I had a great time. The talk is based on a chapter in  The Tough Sayings of Jesus II. I tried to wear a cool shirt and some jeans with some carefully placed holes. [...]

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Rocky Mountain High

The family and I are leaving today for Winter Park, Colorado, where I am speaking at an Adventure Weekend for Green Acres Baptist Church. We couldn’t be more excited. Our kids have never seen the Rockies, and it’s gonna be a blast.
I’ll be preaching through The Tough Sayings of Jesus, including passages where Jesus called [...]

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Find Your Voice

Saw this great post from History in the Making:
I’ll shoot straight. I’ve been visiting lots of churches over the past two years. And it seems like we’ve got the leadership thing down. We’re “mean about vision;” we’ve “chosen to cheat;” and we’ve learned how to quarantine the pastor from criticism like he’s Vladimir Putin.
But the [...]

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The Church is a String Around Its Own Finger

We are forgetful. Whether it’s a set of keys, an appointment, or, umm…, the occasional child, sometimes we forget things. And our forgetfulness is a great hindrance to our faith.
God seems very concerned to me about that forgetfulness. He doesn’t want us to forget; He wants us to remember. In fact, in a very basic [...]

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Our Full Potential

Some would argue that the pastor is supposed to help people reach their potential. And while there’s an element that’s true of that, that a pastor can help people chase the dreams God has put in their heart, there’s another side to the coin. That side is explained in this short blog from Jared Wilson, [...]

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