Archive for September, 2007

Today @ The Gathering – September 30

Today @ The Gathering we continued in our series “7 Lies of Organized Religion,” with installment #4 entitled, “Bottom line: we’re in this mess because of women.”

This was an incredibly important talk, because historically women have not fared very well in religious terms. There… More

 

Why Most Churches Don’t Market

In the world of marketing, the church takes one of two stances. It stays away from it totally, or engages in what I would call cheesy church marketing. Bottom line; they’re not very effective.

But why don’t we market? We have the greatest news in the whole world; something everyone… More

 

COOL QUOTES; The only two things that can satisfy the soul . . .

G K Chesterton said, “The only two things that can satisfy the soul are a person and a story; and even a story must be about a person.” This is the essence of the gospel; the story of redemption wrapped around the person–JESUS!

 

Today @ The Gathering – September 16

Today at The Gathering we covered part 2 of our series, “7 Lies of Organized Religion.” I talked on the subject, “The worse you feel, the godlier you are,” the shocking truth about God that religion wants to hide from you.

It’s really sad that… More

 

Another cool new church in Nashville: Uprising!

A few days ago, I posted “5 cool new church plants in Nashville.” I asked if people knew of others let me know. And Joe Case did me a great favor of correcting an oversight.

On of the most exciting new church plants in Nashville is a church called More

 

Today @ The Gathering – September 9th

Today at The Gathering we started a brand new series entitled “7 Lies of Organized Religion; Exposing the subtle deceptions of dead religion.”

We began the series today with the message, “Obey us or we’ll cut you off.”

In this talk we learned about the… More

 

FOSTERISM: The genius of Jesus the speaker was . . .

“The genius of Jesus the speaker is that He could take complex issues and explain them in a simple compelling way using everyday examples. Those who speak for him should follow that example.”