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Whole And Holy
I still have Sunday's teaching passage running through my head and heart, specifically Ephesians 1:4, where we get the message that God...
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Same Blog, Better Address
Hey loyal blog readers. This blog now has a new address: www.nextlevelchurchblog.org . We felt like this was slightly easier to remember t...
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Christmas This Sunday
I know it's not exactly an original thought, but Christmas is my favorite time of the year! (BJ, my ten year old, agrees: "Dad, it...
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Command vs Control
Every Tuesday in our regular meeting, the NLC staff takes a look at a key leadership principle or two. It is one of my favorite times of the...
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Website
Hey everyone, Just wanted to let you all know that we have updated the Next Level website. Click here to check it out: www.nextlevelchurch.o...
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T-Minus on Next Level Ballantyne...
Lots of pastors say that Monday is the worst day for them. Understandably so. They are tired from the weekend, have put out a lot of energy...
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The Results Are In
It's always weird not to be at NLC on Sunday, but I had a blast yesterday speaking over at Weddington Community Church, where my friend ...
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High Stakes Living
The people that make up Next Level Church always blow me away. They continually humble me as well, and High Stakes Giving was no exception ...
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The Best Team In The World
We just finished our all-staff meeting and I am reminded again of how glad and grateful I am to get to work with this amazing team. They wor...
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High Stakes Campaign Results
...will be announced Sunday! (insert creative tension and drama here)..... I'll tell you this for now. The results exceeded my best case...
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The Next Hill - Project 485
OK, I know it would be best - even more strategic - to leave my last post about High Stakes stories up at the top of the blog. After all, we...
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High Stakes Snapshots
It's the guy who collects vintage guitars and says to Harrison "Can you help me sell this Les Paul on eBay? I think it is probably ...
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Growing Pains
I have an extraordinarily bad memory. Actually, let me qualify that. I can remember all kinds of random trivia. I love to watch Jeopardy. F...
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The Stakes Are High
We are in one of the most intense seasons we have ever had at Next Level Church...and there has been a lot of intensity in our two years of ...
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Leaving an Explosive Legacy
Legacy can be a tricky thing. Take for instance Alfred Nobel. If you guessed he was famous for creating the Nobel Peace Prize you would be c...
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Way To Go HD Venue Freaks!
Like I said, you guys always step up! Last week we asked you to commit to the HD Venue video worship for a month. Toasted bagels and all tha...
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Do Numbers Matter?
It's an old question in church leadership circles: Do numbers matter? By "numbers", pastors generally mean worship attendance....
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Le Venue
One of the best things about NLC people is that you ALWAYS step up. And we need you to step up now. Here's the deal: we are pretty much ...
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Too Edgy?
He's a good guy. Really. "I don't go to your church regularly", he typed. "But I did come the last few weeks. I liked...
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House of Blues
Blues is not the opposite of Praise music, it is its counterpart. Praise is an acknowledgement of the divine reality that God is, that He is...
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More Balloons, Please...
The setting is rural Michigan, in an open field on a clear day. The two wanted to be married but were worried because they each carried heav...
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Sex and Balloons
The response to the Sex God series has been pretty incredible. We've been going to some pretty deep places and probing some pretty serio...
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A Masterpiece Covered in Mud
Say you're walking along the street one day and looking down you spot a Rembrandt painting in the mud. It's not just a little dirty...
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Tonight!
A night of: -worship- -communion- -celebration- It is going to be a blast, a time to gather together and recognize what God has done for us ...
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The Venue
The Venue is officially launched! We are through the very first week of our live video venue in the student center at NLC, and it feels grea...
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Sex God This Weekend
This weekend we begin one of our most anticipated teaching series of the year, Sex-God - Exploring The Connections Between Sexuality and Spi...
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Church Is Tag Team
Read a great blog post this morning from a very creative pastor in Washington, D.C. named Mark Batterson (their strategy to start churches i...
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OK, I Was Wrong
...about last Sunday being the best Sunday of the year. Don't get me wrong - it was off the hook good. We talked about God's vision ...
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Labor Day Weekend Picnic
Hey Crew, there is a picnic coming up on the Sunday, September 2nd. It takes the place of our normal Sunday services and starts at 10:30am. ...
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The Best Sunday Of The Year
This Sunday is Vision Day at NLC, which we do twice a year. In January, Vision Day focuses on recommitting ourselves to our mission and core...
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Vision Day
Vision (n) - the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be. We don't claim to be able to see into...
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S.O.A.P. from Pastor Doug
The following is a S.O.A.P. from Pastor Doug Irvin: Title: "God’s Unexpected Provisions” S – “When David had passed a little beyond the...
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SOAPing UP
Yesterday, Jared brought a killer message about SOAP, the method we are using at NLC for personal study of the Bible and for prayer. A coupl...
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Detroit Student Mission Trip
A crew from the Britemoore gang showed up on the scene before to long. They were looking for Demetrius and everyone knew what it was about. ...
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Change
As the great poet and philosopher of our day, Sheryl Crow, once said, " A change would do you good. " We here at Next Level couldn...
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A time and a place
-when you get the news that you've been let go -when things are a mess at home -when you are awaiting test results from the hospital -wh...
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Four Weeks Out
I am not teaching at NLC for the next four weeks, and I am so excited about that. Well, mostly excited. I know that after the first two week...
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Talking to walls, imaginary friends, and God
I talk to myself. A lot. So much so, in fact, that I refuse to tell therapists about it for fear that they will begin to medicate me in ways...
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The Sweet Spot
Occasionally a Sunday service is freakishly good. In a Sunday morning worship service this might mean that the music was really tight, that ...
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Worship Service Theory 101
I think a big question people have about the way church is done that almost never gets answered is this: Is there something in the Bible tha...
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Summer Camp '07
Summer Camp was a success. This I can say with certainty because in Wi-Fi, the student ministries of NLC, we have a highly scientific evalua...
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Stuff Changes
My first ministry job was in 1988. I did not have an e-mail address or a cell phone. The church I was working for only had one computer, whi...
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Living Life Together... Next Level Style
At Next Level Church we are pretty big on the concept that to be a Christ follower means a lot more than simply agreeing with a certain set ...
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2 Services 4 the Summer
Hey, NLC volunteers...back at Easter we asked you to step up huge because we were running out of room...and you did. We needed to staff thre...
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Zebras This Week
Before, I wrote about dancing zebras, the official animal mascot of Next Level Church. This week, we will have them in the house. Seriously....
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Props to the Band
No exaggeration, I believe Next Level has one of the three best worship bands in Charlotte. Actually, I am convinced they are the best (no k...
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Kids and God
I am thinking a lot about kids these days. Both because of my own - Justin and B.J. - but because these are kid-saturated days at Next Level...
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Incredible Day
What can you say about a day that starts out with a gathering of church planters, a killer leader from California...and ends with Cuban ciga...
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We're Out of Room!
Next Level is always about change, growth, and challenge! One thing we have learned in our year and a half as a church is that life at Next ...
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What A Week!
Last week Dan and I spent an entire week away from NLC working for other churches. Now, I hate being away from here and you normally have to...
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Thoughts from the ATL
We just got back from a conference at a cool church outside of Atlanta called Mountain Lake. We took fifteen NLCers, making us the largest g...
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Dancing Zebras
If you are new to NLC, you may not have heard one of our signature phrases - dancing zebras. Here is what it means... At NLC, we are about c...
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Talk Back Now
Jared is not only a killer student pastor but also a technically savvy cat. One of the cool things he has done recently is to set up the Nex...
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PIZZA DIALOGUE
After reading the results of the recent Next Level survey, one of the clear desires of many of our people is to know more about the financia...
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