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 are many religions that believe that women are inferior to [...]

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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 needs and everyone should know about. [...]

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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!

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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 people of faith feel so miserable, depressed, disconnected, and oftentimes disappointed [...]

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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 Uprising. Not only is this [...]

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Paula and I got a rare opportunity this past Sunday night to attend the first meeting ever of a brand new church in Nashville. Two of my good buddies have moved up from Memphis to plant Green Hills Church . Their names are Brad Dunlap and Mike Harder. These are really great guys [...]

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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 radical differences between religion and Jesus. In days past, religion was kind [...]

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“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.”

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