So, a long time ago, back before www.NeueMinistry.com didn’t redirect to www.NeueResources.com, I wrote an article titled, “How to Sell the Son of God.” When NeueMinistry published it they retitled it “How to Sell Jesus.” Well, when that site shut down and began redirecting, the article was lost somewhere out there in cyberspace.
So, I asked [...]
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Preached the following sermon for The Gathering Student Ministries high school youth group on January 21st, 2010. This is part of our “Family Values” series and I also preached on Community as part of this series.
Key verse, of course, is Acts 1:8
Acts 1-8 by Jesse Medina
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I preached the following sermon on November 7th, 2009 at The Gathering Student Ministries High School youth group. The sermon titled “Looking Ahead” is the second in a series based around Andy Stanley’s The Principle of the Path. Two apologies: first, the recording ends before the sermon is done by a minute or two…technical problems. [...]
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Can you imagine a life with no fear?
It is that question that lies at the heart of Max Lucado’s new book Fearless. In it he explores the possibility of a life lived without fear. At a time when the world seems in upheaval – what with the threat of terrorism, economic recessions, a climbing [...]
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I preached the following sermon on September 6th, 2009 at The Gathering Student Ministries High School youth group. The sermon titled “Imposter Disciples” was an exploration how three different people viewed discipleship (and their modern application) along how their understandings were fundamentally different from Jesus’.
Key Verses:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ [...]
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When we read through the Biblical narrative we find Jesus busy at work doing all sorts of things and one of the things that we find him doing then, that he doesn’t seem to be doing much of now, is healing. Actually, that’s somewhat of a simplified statement. Often, those who travel to other cultures, [...]
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With the advent of postmodernism and its wide embrace in our culture, there was a backlash against it by Christians. Postmodernism brought the ultimate death in the notion of any concept of absolute truth and, therefore, God. As is often the case, when the culture swings one way, the Church swings hard to [...]
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After a year and a half of being micro-managed and underpaid in a call center, I have been offered a new job with a Christian organization that assists other Christian organizations with holistic marketing, focusing on a term called Transformational Giving. I’m no expert, and surely I will write more about this later, but Transformational [...]
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Francis Chan is not a very good writer.
His vocabulary is simple and concise, his sentence structure bland and ordinary. In many ways, his writing is reminiscent of your standard preacher who appeals to cliches such as the fact that you could die at any second and that today should be lived as though it [...]
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Imagine this view of heaven: It is one where we Christians get off scotch free, told “well done my good and faithful servant,” and are invited into paradise. We, unlike our unbelieving counterparts, are not judged at all. In place of our names and our sins is the name of Jesus and his righteousness, his [...]
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