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Thoughts and an announcement on this last day of 2009. -What an incredible year at NLC! In spite of the biggest economic challenge I have ...

For most of us this is about the two craziest weeks of the year. In the spirit of Christmas and of short attention spans and very limited ti...

Christmas Eve at Next Level Church from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

We don't often just come out and say it around here, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and do it. Yup, here it goes: You missed it. I c...

Hey NLC Peeps! You asked for it...so we delivered. We have some new t-shirts for you to help you "represent" NLC during the week ...

-The Christmas season, where everyone is just a little more spiritually sensitized and open. -A new John Irving novel. -Starbucks Christ...

Super-excited about the start of our new Christmas mini-series this weekend - UNWRAPPED. The series is all about seeing Jesus as He really i...

At NLC, we love the opportunity we have to pray over and partner with families who are raising their kids under God's principles! We do...

NLC Survey: It Was My Idea from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

Next Level Church exists to help you take the next step in your relationship with God. One of the ways that we do this is by crafting teac...

Car Repair Day from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

...and no I did not ride it in myself to demonstrate how hip I am (that would have been so circa church a la 1995)... We brought the Harle...

Through this incredible new series we've been doing called "I Dare You," I've been gaining some completely new perspective...

This past weekend, we spent some time talking about Moses... you know, the guy who helped free Israel from slavery in Egypt. Most people who...

There is a backstory to our current teaching series, I DARE YOU. In addition to its stated purpose - taking a look at what the Bible says ...

Every effective leader, parent, employee, or pastor has at least one thing in common. They each have a relentless bias for action. At ev...

So we totally referenced the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) in the service Sunday and it was pretty hilarious. Besides all th...

OK, OK... I know many of you have been waiting for a report on Challenge Sunday for Give Love Away 2009. How did we do?, you ask. What...

Starting this weekend at Next Level Church... the stories of 5 people in the Bible who stepped way out and made huge, life-altering decision...

I have this flu that is going around, I think. For one thing, I feel terrible and for another thing I slept for an hour and a half Thursday....

For those of you who were in service this past Sunday, you know that there is one song that has practically become the anthem of Give Love A...

Amazing day yesterday as we celebrated the ultimate call of God as it relates to our "stuff": Everything I am and everything I hav...

As I sit typing this blog post our Home Repair Team is meeting in the town of Stallings at an elderly woman’s home, replacing her roof. This...

So, we are nearing the homestretch of Give Love Away 2009, the season where we are hoping and praying that God will unleash an unprecedented...

This weekend, we are going to be learning even more about Give Love Away, and I am excited for reasons that go far beyond facts and figures....

Here are the answers to five of the most commonly asked questions about Give Love Away 2009: 1. Is Challenge Day on October 11 a one time ev...

One of the best parts of Give Love Away 2009 is the Four Month Tithe Challenge. In a nutshell, if you commit to tithe (at least ten percent ...

During our LEGENDARY series, I taught on the concept of "the last 10 percent" as it relates to relationships. The idea is that m...

Tomorrow, we are beginning one of the most important three week stretches of our year - Give Love Away 2009. On October 11, we will give our...

I love my job. Seriously. How many church worship pastors get to play, in five consecutive weeks, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, O...

Announcements 09-23-09 from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

Excited about Life Group signup Sunday tomorrow, and I am especially excited that even before signup Sunday we have nearly 300 people alread...

September 16th Announcement Video from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

I've had an incredibly busy week and I still have some major issues that need to be resolved, ministry-wise, before the weekend. It'...

Today is the eighth anniversary of the horrors of September 11, 2001. Today we will hear the words "memory" and "remember&q...

Starting Point from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo . Next Level Church is just never going to be one of those churches that just does stuff for ...

09-09-09 Video Announcements from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

(Wanna see the new Life Group video? Click here! ) It's a funny thing to teach a message on work when a big part of your work is teachin...

Life Groups (In the Movies) from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

I am a huge fan of the management guru and researcher Jim Collins, the cat who wrote Good To Great and Built To Last . One of my most che...

We could sit here and tell you about how Give Love Away 2009 is coming and how you should be getting excited because God has promised that H...

I've been in love with a certain kind of journal for a long time. They are called Moleskines, they are really cool, and you can read abo...

Excited about rolling into week two of LEGENDARY. Here are a few things I am thinking about this Friday afternoon... -So awesome to see the ...

It’s ingrained in us: constantly pursue more, win more, get more, make more. We are inundated with commercials that tell us that if we buy t...

It seems I never like to answer that question honestly. My wife and I are unequivocally the worlds WORST judges when it comes to how many mi...

Video Announcements: Week of August 24th from NextLevelChurch on Vimeo .

I'm trying to write a 'download' post every Sunday night, but yesterday morning at Next Level was so off the charts great I want...

So for some reason I've been more excited about Legendary than any series we've done at Next Level in a long time. Why is that? Sim...

Are. you. ready...can. you. feel. it...the BIGGEST SERIES OF THE YEAR IS HERE...it's time for... L E G E N D A R Y !!! Normally, we wo...

Video Blog 8-18-09 from Jared Kirk on Vimeo . So I'm posting this at 9:50pm at night because Harrison is out of town. I thought that i...

There's nothing more moving, nothing more significant, nothing more elemental in the life of a new Christ-follower than baptism: the mom...

Today was one of the top three days in Next Level's history, in my humble opinion. Here's why.. -Dozens of people baptized. That NEV...

I like seasons. One of the best parts about living in the Southeast is getting all four seasons. Fall and spring are the best in my view (an...

Guest Blogger: Melissa Jackson The idea of one church adopting an entire school is a big undertaking, especially when the school has 600 stu...

Very excited that Dan Southerland will be teaching at NLC this Sunday - his topic is biblical community through the lens of cigar-smoking, a...

One of the great things about our team at NLC is that I can be gone on a Sunday without a second thought as to whether or not things will co...

-NLC...you guys are amazing! 320 of our backpacks for the Rock Rest kids were taken this past Sunday, getting us well on our way to 560. Let...

As NLC moves into a season of tremendous emphasis on the Give:Love Project through the launch of our Home and Car Repair teams, the massive ...

Everyone who hangs out with the NLC staff for a while knows that we (at least most of us) are geeks when it comes to personality and tempera...

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