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My Time At The Journey

February 7, 2010

St. Louis is home to two churches I was keen to visit.  The Journey (an Acts 29 church) is led by Darrin Patrick, and I was so glad to be able to get there yesterday evening.  I’ll talk about Jubilee probably tomorrow.  First up, I think I like the idea of the time.  Saturday at [...]

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Matt Chandler On The Role Of Men

December 19, 2009
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I recently listened to these three talks from Chandler about how us men should be. As Matt puts it himself, in these talks he is “going after” us. If you are a woman, suggest your husband listens to these but don’t nag him about it.  If you are a man, stop what you are doing [...]

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A Call To Pray For Matt Chandler

December 3, 2009

Tope recorded this video, posted on the Jubilee Church Facebook page to call our church to pray for Matt Chandler. I thought it might help some of my readers consider how to pray for his surgery tomorrow.

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Matt Chandler To Have Brain Surgery For A Tumor

December 2, 2009

I interrupt my blogging break and my working day this lunchtime to bring you this update on Matt Chandler. I received an email from Matt’s assistant today asking me to post this request to the Christian community to pray. Updates on Matt’s health condition will be posted on the Village Church Facebook [...]

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Jesus Wants The Battered Rose

November 16, 2009
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This clip is vintage Matt Chandler, and makes me wish he put his regular sermons online in video form. It is also a passionate explanation of the gospel and what is wrong with many churches:

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Mars Hill Church Meets CCK Brighton

June 9, 2009

Pastor Jamie Munson is the elder who runs Mars Hill Church where Mark Driscoll is the preaching elder. He filmed Joel Virgo, lead elder of CCK Brighton and others from that church greeting Mars Hill on his recent visit to Brighton. HT: Mars Hill Blog

Brighton CCK from Mars Hill Church on Vimeo.
A message to Mars [...]

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Acts29 Boot Camp in London This June

April 25, 2009

London Boot Camp

Tuesday, June 09, 2009, 10:00 AM – Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 4:00 PM.

To register, go HERE.
Other Acts 29 Boot Camps and mp3s of past events are also available.

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FREE The Gospel Coalition Network from The City NOW OPEN

April 17, 2009

I can exclusively announce that the all-new and FREE Gospel Coalition Network website opened just a few minutes ago. The kind people running it have offered blog readers like you the chance to be first in line to join.
If you already know what this is all about, then feel free to just follow one of [...]

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Video Interview With Tim Smith Mars Hill Church Seattle’s Worship Pastor

March 20, 2009

In his recent flying visit to the UK I was able to grab worship pastor Tim Smith for an interview. Tim has been with Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill for something like 10 years and is an integral part of the operations there, responsible for co-ordinating worship bands for their 20 services.
We spoke about his [...]

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One Point Calvinism

October 23, 2008

According to J. I. Packer, Calvinism’s five points really boil down to one significant claim that underlies all the others. My friend, Scott Thomas, shared this on the Acts 29 blog:
“God saves sinners—and the force of this confession may not be weakened by disrupting the unity of the work of the Trinity, or by [...]

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2008 Top Posts Numbers 11 and 12

August 28, 2008

The 12th most read post on this blog is a remarkable list of 20 questions for potential church planters. This includes the audio and video of a very helpful talk from Acts 29 director, Scott Thomas.
In 11th place is the video and transcript of my interview with John Piper. Also, don’t miss the many posts [...]

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DWELL – Mark Driscoll on Preaching Christ

August 17, 2008

Thanks to my friends at Acts 29 I’m able to share some sessions with you from the Dwell London conference. This is a talk Mark Driscoll gave on how to preach Christ from the entire Bible. You can download the audio, read my notes below, or watch the video right here:

No one [...]

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DWELL – Q and A with Dave Fairchild, Steve Timmis and Scott Thomas

July 28, 2008

Hear Dave Fairchild, Scott Thomas and Steve Timmis answer questions in this session from the Dwell Conference in London. Once again this is a longer video and so is hosted by Google Video rather than Youtube. You can watch it below or download the audio here. The Q and A spoke [...]

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PHOTOS of Mark Driscoll in London

July 27, 2008

I found a way of embedding a flikr slide show here on the blog. I hope you like these photos from Driscoll’s London trip.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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