The Elephant Room and the Flint Mission Trip

A couple of months ago Mark Driscoll posted on Facebook about being a part of a conference called the Elephant Room.

The Elephant Room Conference had some names that I have heard of before and some I never knew existed. Those that attended the conference were James MacDonald, Greg Laurie, Mark Driscoll, Matt Chandler, David Platt, Perry Noble, and Steven Furtick. One of the first videos that came out was this one…

Chandler and Furtick from Harvest Bible Chapel on Vimeo.

After watching this video and a couple of others from this same conference, I decided to check out some of the other pastors on the panel so that I didn’t judge people by sound bites. I am familiar with Mark Driscoll and Matt Chandler, I have listen to more of Mark’s sermons and talks then I have Matt’s.

So I started with Steven Furtick at Elevation Church in North Carolina. Where do you start when you have years of material at your fingertips,  I choose to start with his series “Mr. and Mrs. Betterhalf” it’s a relationship series from a Godly standpoint. I’ve listen to the first 4 messages, and I’m working on the bonus message and the fifth one.  It’s pretty good some pretty good points and I like that his wife did an entire sermon on what this messages series looks like in real life.

After watching a couple of sermons I did a Google search on Pastor Steven. I found his blog and his Twitter. I haven’t read too much on either so I won’t say go there and read his stuff, but I did find one thing I would like to use during the mission trip.  It was a neat idea, which hopeful people will continue to use after the mission trip is over.  We will see how it works out!

I’m sure everyone is aware of how I feel about rock and roll music after taking Stan’s discovery class.

Highway to Hell - Part 1 from Harvest Bible Chapel on Vimeo.

In the video above I saw Perry Nobel used ACDC’s song Highway to Hell. Automatically I’m intrigued, Just sayin’! So I checked him out as well. This is what I first found.

Beautiful_02- Single Guys Outtake from NewSpring Church on Vimeo.

I had to find the rest of this sermon series.  I did locate it and if you get the time to watch it since I don’t really want to judge on a 6 minute sound bite.

After checking out 4 of the 7 sermons of the Beautiful, A Series for Women and theMen Who Pursue Them,. I would recommend it!