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Jesus Wants to Save Religious People

Video of Dan Leffelaar from hub Sunday night speaking on how Jesus wants to save religious people. Thanks Dan! Great message!!

Jesus Wants to Save Religious People (Nov 15, 2009) from Ben Schuiling on Vimeo.

dan leffelaar - teaching video - John 1:14

At hub this week, Dan Leffelaar taught on John 1:14.  The video Dan references at the beginning of his message can be seen here: What's Lacking Here?  (Be sure to check out the comments underneath).   And, by the way, the music intro at the beginning of the video is all Dan's talent seeping through too.

The Word Became Flesh (Sept 27, 2009) from Ben Schuiling on Vimeo.

video - hub message from 2009/09/13

The Day The Word Became Flesh (Sept 13, 2009) from Ben Schuiling on Vimeo.

We owe an incredible amount of thanks to Ben Schuiling for working so hard on setting up video for hub. He's also preparing a host site where you'll be able to view all the upcoming hub videos in the future. For now, here is our first attempt. This is the message from our kick off Sunday evening a few days ago.

THE DAY THE WORD BECAME FLESH - part 1

We kicked off the Fall 2009 edition of *hub last night.  Our numbers have grown so we gathered in Brentview Baptist's sanctuary.  But the dim lights and pillows on the pew benches set a great mood.  So many people stepped up.  I'm estimating that we had at least 40 people playing intentionally key roles in shaping the evening.  It was a great night.  I'm so grateful to God.  He's behind shaping *hub into a growing network of people residing with Christ.

If you're interested, here's my message from last night- an introduction to our series for the Fall: The Day the Word Became Flesh!!

Hub - The Day The Word Became Flesh (part 1)

older sermons

On the media page, I've just uploaded some selected sermons from a few years ago.  Thought they might be an encouragement in faith to some of you.  Blessings - Ken. 

deeper.

I hope you'll all take 15 minutes to listen to this recording from hub last night.  Brian Tuntland rocked it.  He speaks truth in an engaging way... and 15 minutes goes by in what feels like 5.   Brian gets right to the heart of the way we do friendship... too much on the surface.  Be deeper, Brian says.  I'm challenged and encouraged.  Incredible stuff here.

Hub recording: Deep Friendship - Brian Tuntland - Hub May 10 2009

Steve McCready the artist

So we just had to add some pizazz to Steve McCready's rather incredible Romans Rap and his soft-hearted Jonah poem.  So here ya go!!  Enjoy!!

Download Steve mccready rap

Download Steve mccready Jonah poem 

introducing jesus - by steve harvey

what if starbucks marketed like a church?

back from reactivate

We're finally back from our cross pond adventure to Northern Ireland.  I didn't have internet access (or when I did I didn't have time!) so there has been a huge gap in the posting here!  But we had an amazing time talking about Jesus with all the youth at the Reactivate conference at Orangefield Church and Community in Belfast.  Our 17 hour long days exhausted us!  But the ministry was fantastic and I have such a hope for the next generation in Northern Ireland connecting to God in a powerful way.  One of the highlights in fact was this last Monday when Dan and I were able to spend the day with the YFC staff as they dreamed up reaching the whole of Ireland in 2010.  Can't wait to see what comes of that!

Sometimes I feel in my element partnering with others in ministry and being creative in sharing the story of Jesus and encouraging people to grow in faith.  There is nothing like working with others to make an environment where that can happen easily.  For that reason I'm so very impressed with the church and with the Youth for Christ team that helped host the youth portion of the conference. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard!  The videos above are the final two that Dan and I made during the conference... WARNING... They might not make much sense to North Americans who weren't at Reactivate! : )