What Are You Thinking?

Yesterday, we wrapped up our series SUPERNATURAL by looking at Romans 8 and what it says about the battle for our mind - -will our mind be c...

Wednesday night, my oldest son Justin and I went to hear TV celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain speak along with famous chef Eric Ripert of Le B...

Months ago, we began to dream as a church what it would look like if we started a Love Revolution in our neighborhoods, communities, cities...

FROM THE STUDENT GUY: One of my favorite passages of Scripture is Acts 15 . Let me set the stage for you. At this time, there is a pretty sh...

If we know that God will help us because he went all the way to the cross. And we know that God can help us because he rose from the dea...

The opening scene of the movie The Social Network is like a car crash you can't help but look at. It portrays Facebook founder Mark Zu...

Sometimes on Sunday mornings, I get so caught up in what's going on with Student Ministry, that I totally miss out on some of the cool m...

I was thinking about a fact that, to me, seems to show that God really is a God of love and redemption. The fact is this: every person, no m...

Huge day for us as we finished ONE THING, our four week series focusing on the essence of the Gospel, the Good News at the heart of the Chri...

My wife says I act like an old man. I deny this, emphatically. I mean, sure, I am a jerky driver, get lost on the way to work, and actuall...

If there is one thing I can honestly say that I HATE, it's emails, memo's, txt msg's, and BLOG posts for that matter that begin...

One of my top ten days of all time was a trip to John Pennycamp State Park in Florida with my wife Heather. We were just dating then. We...

There are awesome days and there are REALLY awesome days. I've had some awesome days in my life. I got to go to a Miami Hurricanes road ...

Well, first, welcome to the newly minted NLC Blog, now called Access Next Level! We'll be posting here five times a week, giving you i...

Hey, guys - two things for you today. 1. NO, we have not forgotten about this blog. At Next Level, we are always tinkering and changing th...

What I Learned From Anthony Bourdain