Our Missing Podcast

Well I have to say that I'm a little disappointed this afternoon.

All week our host site for our podcast had been going through maintenance. Today I log in and everything was gone. Yep...every episode deleted.

I have no idea what happened.

So I have two choices...try and figure out or just begin uploading again.

I'm going for option two and uploading the last three plus our first three.

AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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Sunday Remix

Thoughts from Week 9.

• Hard to believe that around 7 or 8 years ago I stood on a platform in Church and told God that I never wanted to be a Sr. Pastor...and now here we are in Journey Church as one of the Sr. Leadership Pastors.
• There is so much in the message this morning. Making Disciples is a huge subject. Speaking on it this morning was only the tip of the iceberg.
• My buddy Randy knocked it out of the park this morning as they kicked off their first ever church service of LifePointe...100 people...19 kids...20 decisions for Christ....Way 2 Go Bro!!!
• This morning I felt good during the message but felt a little bogged down in the middle.
• We were missing key people this morning due to sickness...even in all that we set up faster than ever.
• Really feel momentum each week and that God is preparing us for what He wants to do.
• We are so close to securing a site for our Student Ministry in the Calallen/Tuloso-Midway Area. I know most of you have no clue where that is. Anyway pray for us. To pull it off we are going to need a youth leader. I'm a great stand-in for now but for it to be successful it needs a strong leader.
• I feel we have to get sharper in our systems as they are going to be key to God using us in a great way. I know a lot of churches that don't get that point.
• Music set was great this morning. I love The Stand by Hillsong United.
• Pumped for next week...we are doing a message called "I Am The Way". It's going to be a pure gospel message. Pray for God to draw in the lost and Journey Church to reach 'em.
• Heroes Season 2 tomorrow...I'm so ready.
  

Make Disciples

Got to preach this weekend in our adult experience at Journey Church. We continued our series Why Did Jesus Have To Say That. Below are the links


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Simply Partnerific

Got to get the short version of this out tonight. I wanted to do a longer post and I may still do it. One of our "volunteers" (I consider her more of a ministry partner) hit an absolute home run tonight.

We had our Journey Student Connect Group, which is rapidly growing into our Student Ministry, tonight. Unbeknown to me, she printed out over 100 flyers and got them all over their neighborhood, sent myspace bulletins, and knocked it out of the park. She even led the bible discussion. Altogether we had 19...we did have 4 that were under, under age...so we didn't officially count them. That would have made it 23.

Now that's taking ownership and that is what I love. Way to go Talitha and her husband James for hosting and making Journey Church an awesome place to be.

Journey Church Praise Report

I know this is never gonna get old and when I hear about them I'm gonna shout it to the roof top...so here it goes.

This week we received this testimony from Pam who is a faithful partner of Journey Church.

Two Sundays ago I agreed in prayer with her and one week later she had this to say.

Wayne has had several major health problems in the last five years...God has seen him though and healed Him time and time again!!!

The latest miracle...
Wayne had been having some chest pain for several weeks, and decided to go see his dr. The doctor ordered a chest x-ray and results showed old scar tissue and some new active lesions on his lungs.

The doctor told him at that point they would test for tuberculosis and cancer. They did the tuberculosis arm/test and said to come back in 2 days, and then a (PET) test for cancer would be scheduled. Wayne being Wayne, thought now would probably be a good time to tell me/Pam what was going on. I didn't know any of this was going on ......Hellooooooooooo, So he came home and told me.

I am a believer in God's word, I believe that God healing power is for All of us, not just the"good church going people" as Wayne believes. I immediately began to pray and stand on God's promises, (I love IIChronicles 20) took authority in Jesus Name, and came against the assignment of tuberculosis and cancer in Wayne's body! And just started praising God. I thank God that, I was able to reach out to my prayer partners, and knew to call on the elders of the church to stand in agreement with me boldly before the throne of God in Jesus Name. After all He is The Great Physician!!!

Two days later the tb test was negative. Wayne went for the cancer PET scan, on Wednesday. On Friday he went back to the Dr. for the results. The Dr., to say the least was a little confused....The PET scan showed, all old scar tissue, that he said looked like old tuberculosis scars, NO new active disease that was reported in the first x-ray and NO tuberculosis NO cancer. Glory be to God!

I want to thank you and Journey Church for being the obedient, sincere, loving people that God has called you to be.

I see the heart of Jesus in this family of God! For sure, for sure! I love you all.

Come on now folks...give it up for God.

Sunday Remix

7th Sunday is done...Here are my thoughts on the day.

• So far our average is staying even. We had 44 in attendance. And every week we get a little smoother.
• Today, we had live music. We still need musicians if you know anyone out there.
• The message I had for our Journey Kids was right on this morning. I talked about sin and how serious Jesus takes it. It went great. I had one kid choose to follow Christ today.
• Great testimony brought back to us this week after I prayed for one of our partners last week. I hope to get her to type out and I can share it with everyone.
• I am so pumped to preach in two weeks. I'll be going two weeks in a row. One of them I will be giving a clear presentation of the gospel.
  

Saturday Thoughts

No special blogs today...since I blogged 10 times yesterday.

Next week stay tuned I think I'll be blogging on Reaching The Next Level. It will take me about 7 or 8 days of posting once a day on that topic.

That will be my main theme going through. I may start it tomorrow. And of course you may find my usual mix of other things going on. Hopefully tomorrow I'll do a Sunday Remix.

Keep praying for us as we continue to launch Journey Church...if there is one main thing you can do as one of my readers it is to do that.

Pray for God's blessing and wisdom for our leadership team.

Pray for God's blessing on our finances so we can reach the coastal bend area.

Pray for laborer's to get it done.

Random Late Night Thoughts

It's about 12:30 a.m. and I'm wide awake. Actually listening to his frog croak right outside our back window. Had a lot of random thoughts from the day and thought I'd get them out:

• Faith - Sometimes it's the hardest thing there is when you can't see or touch it. I hate living in uncertainty. God has never let us down and He won't this week.
• Journey Student Connect Group - Off the hook tonight. 15 people in attendance. Oh yeah.
• Connect Group Launch - We had over 50% of our Sunday Morning total attendance in Connect Groups tonight. Problem was...it rained like crazy today which probably hurt our numbers. Way to go Journey Church.
• Rain - It rained way to much today...and it's supposed to do it again tomorrow...and the day after that. Come on Carlos...man up!
• Love Your Enemies - Man am I having to fight through preaching this message this week. What you think Pastors are immune to this stuff. Yeah right. I probably will commit a whole blog to this one.
• More Rain - Did I mention it rained today? More like torrential down-pours.
• Journey Kid's Directors - Hope to be blogging about our Journey Kid's Directors next week. I'm so pumped for Journey Kid's. I get to rock the mic there this Sunday.
• More, More Rain - Next time I'm gonna video what real rain looks like for Carlos...he didn't even need an umbrella.
• Journey Church - I feel this deep sense of excitement for Journey Church. What God is about to do and is going to do through this church is gonna be so cool. It is so awesome to be on the ground floor of a movement that is going to shake up this area. But we must be ready. Our body must be ready. Systems must be in place. Leaders and volunteers must be in place if we are to take full advantage of what the Spirit is gonna do. It's like we are on the verge of something great. Something that is rarely heard of. I know that sounds kind of presumptuous to say...kind of like yeah that's what your supposed to say. I really feel like this is what God has worked on for many long years. This is why He has taken our team through the trails of our life. He has prepared and shaped our families for such a time as this. Though circumstances shaped the birth...God has ordained the steps and is ready, aimed and prepared to fire a shot that will be heard around this area. Get ready leaders of Journey Church. Get ready partners of Journey Church.
  

Journey Students

I'm really pumped about tonight. We are launching our Journey Student Ministry Weekly Connect Group.



This is another area we feel is vital for our growth. I will be putting together a team that will focus on this area.

Tonight we will be kicking off with a discussion on Making A Difference.

Love Your Enemies Podcast

This weekend I had the honor of preaching at our adult experience at Journey Church. This week we continued our series called "Why Did Jesus Have To Say That". The message I taught was called Love Your Enemies. Boy was it a tough one.

To be honest I want to punch some of my enemies...but Jesus calls us to a higher standard. Be sure to check it out.



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More Sunday Remix

I'm loving this whole google thing. Next week I'll put the slide show in my Sunday Remix post. But for now...here are the pictures from our Sunday 8-26-07 Experience.

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See that empty chair...we're saving it just for you!!!

Our Podcast

I was and am having some problems with our Journey Church Podcast site today. I think I have the latest one updated. While I was doing that which took me all afternoon, it deleted some of our past ones. Not sure why. I am going to check it out tomorrow and see what's up.

The latest one is up. Check out Dean preaching on our new series called "Why Did Jesus Have To Say That". The message is called Lose Your Life.

To Kids???

Well tomorrow I get to speak in Journey Kids. As we are pre-launching here, we are doing some double and triple duties. Each week Dean and I are switching out from our adult experience to our kids experience.

It is fun and challenging. We are doing the same message theme for each one and are just changing it up a little to reach the age group we are speaking to.

All of this while we continue to build our launch team in expectation of our October Launch.

The way we are doing it is going to be a key to how we do it in the future as well. We hope to integrate our messages throughout the whole Journey experience. This will be a way the whole family is able to process the message each week together.

There may be some series with a very adult message that won't carry down but overall we will strive to implement our message throughout every age group.

Working On Our Systems

Couple of things I got done today. Typed up a first time guest letter and created our assimilation strategy.

A couple of systems we are focusing on creating for our first year are:

1. Sunday Morning Experience
2. Evangelism & Outreach
   
3. Assimilation
4. Internet
5. Baptisms
6. Business Structure - Records, Accounting, & Legal Structure
   
7. Leadership Development
8. Small Groups
9. Family Ministries
   

Why Did Jesus Graphic 2

After about 2 hours of work...I'm a lot more pleased with this graphic for the next series.

Next Series Graphic

Next series starting this week is called, "Why Did Jesus Have To Say That". Finished the graphic and have to admit that I'm not 100% sold on it. Problem is with my technology it is about all I can do.

Living The Journey

Here is our latest podcast.

This is the third episode of the Journey Church Podcast consisting of our vision & offering by Dean Bearden and message by Jason Curlee called Living The Journey. It concludes our What If Series.


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Sunday Re-View

Wrapped up weekend three of Journey Church.

Wrapped up our first series called What If?, which was a series looking at Acts and our purpose statement.

Wrapped up three weeks of God growing us. He is blowing me away.

Wrapped up a great time after church with a new couple from our church. Great food---great time!

Wrapped up throwing away my pool which has been laying in my backyard cause I can't find the whole in it.

Great Sunday...that's my re-view.