Personal Evangelism Point #2: Invest

Second point for a personal evangelism strategy: Invest spiritually in that person. One misconception of personal evangelism comes in the form of our role in the task. We are called to do more than transfer information. We are called to do more than leave a gospel tract. The biblical mandate calls all believers to invest spiritually into the lives of …

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Studio Video #10 – Interpretive Movement

Studio work is going great. The North Side crew has been cranking it out with Anthony over at Addeybug and we are getting real close. All the instruments are tracked (unless we hear something else we need), and the majority of vocals are done. We went through five vocalists yesterday! We had already gotten three, and now we have four …

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Personal Evangelism Point #1: Intercede

North Side’s entire mission strategy is only as strong as how active its members are in the area of personal evangelism.  Since we know that everyone will not come to the doors of North Side to pursue Christ, North Side must go to the people of this community and beyond.  Christ’s command was to go and tell, not come and …

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Obama vs. McCain (Rick Warren the Referee?!)

If you weren’t aware of the Saddleback Civil Forum that happened on Saturday night, you missed out.  Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, wrote one of the greatest-selling books of all time, trying to take on all the world’s problems through his PEACE plan, and all around great guy, he decided to bring the two presidential candidates together for the …

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Speaking Through Circumstances

I love getting together as a church on Sundays. Today was another great day! In our series, Experiencing God, we arrived today at the message, “Speaking Through Circumstances.” This is such a needed message. Overwhelmed with the circumstances in our lives, it is normally hard to decipher what God is trying to say. When you see a commercial on TV …

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The Epic Shack

Sunday is going to be a pretty stupendous day for North Side. First, this is the Sunday before school starts which normally means that everyone comes off of summer vacation and comes to church all on the same day.  Normally, this is the largest day attendance wise next to Easter all year.  So, we look forward to seeing everyone together …

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Studio Video #9 – Pickin’ and Grinnin’

This next video chronicling the studio development for the upcoming North Side worship album is of JT himself, Eric Bryant. Eric is working on the arrangement and recording the acoustic track for “God of This City,” a fabulous worship tune penned by a band called Bluetree out of Ireland. I make a cameo in the video as well, and somehow …

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Project Rationale #2

My doctoral project rationale #2: The second rationale behind this project is the significant investment that is made in church ministries geared towards children and youth that are providing a minimal return. While these students are very active in church when they are at home due to sincere desire or parental prodding, once these students leave home for college, churches …

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The Living Word

Another great Sunday at North Side.  We talked about the Living Word today in the series, Experiencing God. Today, we worshiped to the following songs: Forever – Chris Tomlin Holy is the Lord – Chris Tomlin Magnificent – Hillsong There is None Like You – Don Moen We Fall Down – Chris Tomlin We were supposed to talk about experiencing …

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