Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Okay, sorry for the LONG delay but i think we finally have all* the audio from the conference up on the site. Many apologies for long delays and technical issues….
2 notes:
- we had some sort of recording error with Chris Mann’s Session, so unfortunately it is not available
- Chris Ridgeway’s message is different from that included on the CD.
- Jenny Wilcoski’s message is now up in the posts below
- And again if you are interested in Stacey Lovett’s message on women and sex, you can email her and she can direct you to the file. stacey.lovett{theatsymbol}illinilife.org
thanks and enjoy
Monday, January 7th, 2008
So here is the rest:
John Edwards, Jon Dillow, Leah Chandler, Mike Klunke, Neil Kring, NLCF Dance Team, Stavey Lovett, Terry Bartley, Ty Grigg, Wendy Standinger
Again there are a couple more on the way asap….
John Edwards: Extreme Makeover: Short-Term Missions Edition:
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Jon Dillow: Stepping Out of the Darkness:
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Leah Chandler: The God of Romance:
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Mike Klunke: Living Single-Minded in a Double-Minded World:
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Neil Kring: Hell Yes! Holding onto Hell:
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NLCF Dance Team: Praise You with a Dance:
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Stacey Lovett: Now and Later:
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Terry Bartley: Classic Thoughts on Discipleship:
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Ty Grigg: The Art of Making Sacred Spaces:
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Wendy Standinger: Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled:
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
So here is some of the Seminar Audio….
Speakers listed in this post:
Andrea Replogle, Bill Pfeifer, Darryl Phillips, Ed Courtney,Jeff Eads, Jeff Warner, Jenny Wilcoski, John Drage, Chris Ridgeway
Check out the following post for the rest of em…
Enjoy!!
ps, there are a couple that still need some “work” but look for them soon, i just need the time to edit and upload….
pps, stacey lovett did a teaching during this seminar slot related to women and sex, if you’re interested in that please contact her at stacey.lovett{atsymbol}illinilife.org
ppps, jenny wilcoski’s message is up now, sorry about the delay!
Andrea Replogle: Why We Need Chicks! [62:18m]:
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Bill Pfeifer: Life After College:
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Darryl Phillips: Hearing From God in Solitude:
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Ed Courtney: Teaching Well Without Star Power:
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Jeff Eads: Can Somebody Tell Me How to Read This Thing?:
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Jeff Warner: Walking Through the Darkness:
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Jeff Warner: Successful Parenting:
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John Drage: Memorizing the Word:
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Jenny Wilcoski - Thank God it's Friday:
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Chris Ridgeway: What is the Emerging Church:
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
hey if you’d like to download the ignite main session teachers, well here ya go:
seminars are on the way….
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Like that, it’s over. It’s difficult to believe that Ignite has been over for almost two full days already. The conference ended with a bang under the call to follow Christ as the Kingdom is expanding.
Am I consumed by the desire to see God’s Kingdom advance? I honestly got chills when Steve Hayes asked us to imagine an end to hunger and suffering in this generation because of the actions of the Church of Christ. Bring Heaven to bear upon the earth…establish God’s Kingdom here and now.
“From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of God has been forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it.” (Matthew 11:12).
As someone mentioned to me right outside the ballroom, it’s good to be reignited. A few things that God is reigniting in me because of this conference on His Bride, the Church:
- A desire for deep, heart-felt worship of Him because He is worthy
- An awareness that Jesus longs to lavish His inheritance on me because I am His son
- Truth that God has made me sufficient and has things for me that I cannot do on my own
- …? (the hope that more will spring forth in time)
Your Kingdom Come, Jesus…and soon.
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Dim lights, rich fabrics, and designer decorations do not make sacred spaces. God makes a space sacred when He shows up.
We learned about and practiced three styles of worship: Quaker (silent meeting), Jewish (corporate Torah reading), and Taize (French community of faith that uses repetitive chants and other means to facilitate connection to Jesus).
“Speak [to the group] if it improves the silence.” - Quaker tradition
I am thankful for God who improved my silence this afternoon.
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Take your pick and find the recounting of Jesus feeding the multitudes with a few loaves and two small fish (the lunch portion).
Matthew 14:15-16 (paraphrase)
Disciples: There’s no place to buy food - send them away
Jesus: Feed all of them yourselves.
Disciples: We don’t have that much food - all we have is this little kid’s lunchbox that he gave to us.
Jesus: Bring it to me.
“What was not enough was made enough” — Jesus takes small crumbs and turns them into feasts; God the Father, through Jesus, makes me sufficient and more than enough to do the things He has created for me and called me to do.
I need to be changed by this reality. From the inside out…
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
We’re searching for “It.” Happiness? LOVE! We need to be satisfied. How? What holds us back? For me…
I’m a servant to “fear.” Not necessarily fear of what others will think of me if I go to church or whatever…But fear of failure. Failure to live up to His promise, to live up to what other Christians are doing. I went to the “How do I read this?” seminar that talks about how to really read the Bible. I felt like, what if I’m doing it all wrong? Why am I not getting much from it? It really helped me, yes, but it was because I was afraid I wasn’t doing it like anyone else that I went. I was convinced that I was going about reading the Bible wrong…
As for “It”…the second seminar reaffirmed for me God’s great romance and love for us. It was called “The God of Romance.” God yearns for us. He wants my heart, and like any great love, He is willing to do anything for it. Even die, even sacrifice His one and only son. Sometimes I almost forget or just minimize the significance of that act of love. Someone sent His son and died because He loves me! As far as I’m concerned, “It” is simple. I’m just too scared to really embrace it. It’s time to just let go of all my inhibitions and just let “It” consume me.
Ignite me? Okay.
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Ideas, ideas, ideas… tons of things to sort through. I apologize for this post being a little late today (as I know you’ve been ITCHING to hear about my time :-)), but flexibility is the key to getting all God has to offer at His official functions, right? This morning’s message centered around (at least for me) satisfaction. I began the notes I took with a list of questions: Where do I go for love? How is it working out for me? (Here’s a good one:) Am I a satisfied customer of the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Satisfaction. I don’t know that I’ve been asked if I’m satisfied with my choice of spirituality before. Would I pick something else? No; I don’t believe anything else. But am I satisfied? I used to greet my spirituality as more of an obligation. But let me go back; I’ve spent my whole life in the Church, and I wouldn’t say that I was just going through the motions. I was quite devout in my pre-adolescence and fully believe I understood as much as I could have in those early years. But the trials come with the teenage years; on one side was my youth group, blissfully unaware of the world outside the church walls, I felt, or if they were aware, it was a general awareness, the kind that asks, “How would this evangelism outing look on the WB?” On the other side, my Christian school where I was taught daily the downfalls of the church I went to because it was too Evangelical. When problems arose (as they do, and if they haven’t, they will), I was stuck in a situation of social abuse by my peers (yes, I was THAT kid) but had no way to deal with it other than to “turn the other cheek.” Satisfaction wasn’t part of it; Jesus gave me a list of demands and I tried to fulfill them as best I could, even though I spent years being unhappy with it.
Satisfied? Really? Does that factor? The speaker gave us a verse this morning, and I wish I’d heard it in the context he gave it today all the way back then. The story was of the blind man, with the age-old question, “Who sinned, this man or his parents?” And now Jesus answers the question we’ve all been asking: “But this (blindness, suffering, evil) happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” So now my years of grief were a tool of glorification. Honestly, I’m not totally satisfied with that notion, but the promise Jesus was offering was one I wish I’d known in my heart. “There is a reason, there is something gestating and being born in you, something beautiful.” And what kind of trust must God have in man to allow the things He allows, looking toward the future in which man blooms, explodes even, in glory to God?
Satisfied? Am I? Now, here, at this point in my development as a human being? I don’t know. That’s the problem I have with the magical thinking Jesus offers. And it is, by definition, magical thinking. I’m not saying it’s wrong or that I think He’s a liar, I’m just saying it’s difficult for me to acknowledge the reality that there are sometimes (and maybe always. I don’t know yet.) reasons for the catastrophes we suffer. Can I really be satisfied, now, here, today, at this end of all of the things I’ve experienced and all the reasons I used to have for “Why God doesn’t love me,” even in view His promise that this is all leading somewhere? I wish I could step outside time, sometimes. Maybe what I’m saying is I wish I knew the end of the story. I wish I knew for a fact that my life weren’t only a lesson in submission, “grinning and bearing it.” But I don’t.
But I still have the question to answer for myself: am I satisfied with the gospel of Jesus Christ? I think I’m getting there. I think I’ve seen Him, and it was only evident in His motion in my past pains. Satisfaction… it sounds too complete; I’m twenty-one, almost twenty-two years old… I’m grateful to be as aware as I am of God in my life… but satisfied… Ask me when I’m eighty. Or on my death bed. Yeah, on my death bed.
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
The morning session was prefaced by some videos from some of the GCM campuses. The one from the Rock at The University of Missouri, Columbia was promoting a new program and used the quote I listed above.
John Drage said that we’re all looking for “it” - whatever “it” might be to us individually. I’ve got a lot of “its” in my life: desire for a relationship, a wife, family, success at work. I’ve got lots of “its” that I am trying to find ways to meet. The cover song asked the question “Where do you go for love?” Unfortunately, I go to too many bad places and wrong people in order to find love. I was reminded of this even before the teaching began.
The text was from John 9 where Jesus healed a man who had been blind since birth. John asked us to imagine who we related to the most in the story. I can connect with the wrong theology of the disciples (I believe all the wrong things about God and how He “works” sometimes) and I can relate with the blind self-righteousness of the pharisees (self-explanatory). The challenge was to go into prayer over this and ask God to change me. I wondered to myself “Does God really do that? Change people like that? Don’t I have to do something too?” Even now my wrong theology is coming out as I type.
Like the Israelites, I need to be reminded of who God is and all that He’s done for me. I need to confess my faults (okay, sins) and receive mercy and grace (seems to be a theme on this topic here for me at Ignite). Seems too easy.
Or just Amazing.