what’s your favorite talk/message ever? please include a link if you know where you can download it.
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what’s your favorite talk/message ever? please include a link if you know where you can download it.
(by the way, you can now subscribe to comments, so…have fun with that!)
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34 responses to “what’s your favorite?”
I have a lot of favorites…
…but the message that was by far the most pivotal for my life (and the life of my family) was given by Andy Stanley.
// The Path Principle (Part One | Destination Series)
// July 10, 2007
“Your direction (not your intention) determines your destination.”
You can download the message @
http://resources.northpoint.org/store/shop.do?cID=83&pID=1308
my fav message is typically the one i heard last sunday. since is had to skip church because of poison ivy kiddos, i’m submitting this one-‘true worshippers’. it blew me away in the comparison to a rock concert…http://www.riverside-church.com/messages.htm . the archive date is 8/10/08, by pastor paul booko.
I have always loved Louie Giglio’s Krispy Kreme Donut sermon. He gave it at 7:22 in Atlanta, GA about 8-10 years ago. In it he talked about the difference between knowing a lot of facts about God versus experiencing Him for yourself. The same is true for Krispy Kreme donuts. At the end 3,000 people were given donuts.
Hmm..that’s a tough one.
Favorite series is either Louie Giglio’s “Two Words That Changed Everything” or “Lost in Translation”
But favorite talk might be Louie’s final talk at Passion 06 called “Passion, Purpose, and Designer Jeans”
1. http://www.268store.com/store/product/125/2-Words-Changed-Everything-CD/
2. http://www.268store.com/store/product/143/Lost-in-Translation-CD/
3. http://www.268store.com/store/product/176/Passion06-CD/ OR http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=118371947&id=118372007&s=143441
The sermon on the mount, by Jesus.
The transcript is in the book of Matthew.
I like this message not because it compares Christianity to Muslim, but because it says that we don’t need to defend Christ.
Don Piper: Being Mocked: The Essence of Christ’s Work
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2006/1775_Being_Mocked_The_Essence_of_Christs_Work_Not_Muhammads/
My favorite is a 3-part series by Tony Evans on Jesus walking on the water. I’d love to have a copy of it, but I think it was done about 12 years ago. Used to have it on tape, but I fear the tapes are long gone now.
I have many for various reasons. Just about every Andy Stanley message could rank in there. I loved Rob Bell’s “Between the Trees” and “Dust” but don’t have links for those.
Here are two of my top that I have link access to.
Prayer – Spiritual Activism (recorded at a Promise Keepers Event)
by Erwin McManus
Listen online: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6467672506514428979
Download at: http://www.mosaic.org/podcast/ (last audio on right side)
**This one is just amazing for anyone and everyone. One of the most passionate messages I’ve ever heard Erwin give. It will change your thinking. May just change your life.
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Overcoming Your Shadow Missions
by John Ortberg
http://danieldecker.net/2008/08/20/overcoming-your-shadow-missions/
**This is a great leadership message. About how we have to be careful to not let our shadow missions undermine un (ego, etc). Such a needed message. Link above just offers a sample of the message with links to order the full deal from Willow Creek.
first instalment of the FLOW series John Ortberg did at Willow Creek was first to come to mind; not sure it is available for free anywhere. here is link to it on willow’s site: http://www.willowcreek.com/wca_prodsb.asp?invtid=PR21705
i’ll second the reference to Ortberg’s “shadow mission” talk from 2007 Leadership Summit; insightful exposition of Book of Ruth with strong words from him affirming women in all areas of ministry and leadership. :)
my favorite was a seminar by a financial advisor on how to loosen up cash from your budget so that you can give more to others
Obviously anything Jesus taught has had the most profound effect on my life. But for a message in our time, I would say a series Andy Stanley did on margin. He talked about having margin in all areas of our lives such as finances and time and just walking away from that it put something that we all deal with in our culture to one extent or another and just made me want that. And it has changed how my family and I do life.
Without a doubt…Passion 2000, John Piper, Boasting Only in the Cross
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByDate/1483_Boasting_Only_in_the_Cross/
Matt Chandler has a lesson that was called (more or less) “What is Missional?”. It really punched me in the face.
Those are the sermons I need. Where God gets physical with me.
Because those are the ones that stick.
You are busy today with all these great questions!
I recently listened to Donald Miller’s Let Story Guide You, http://www.donaldmillerstore.com/dlg/cart/index.php?action=desc&pn=8&c=6
It was really great! I love how he speaks because it is very conversational, honest and funny.
I can’t say I have a favorite, though. I have heard so many great speakers and crave hearing more. Every Sunday, I think “Oh, that was my favorite ever!” So, I just keep trying to be a sponge and take all the great talks in.
tom – ‘margin’…..i like it! much more intellectual than ‘loosen up cash’ !!
I have heard that one, too and it is great……….but of course, with me it’s always about riches
Anne, I regret that I don’t have a link to give you and everyone else so they might hear this preacher’s message online, however, you can order it online for a small donation. His name is Tommy Oaks and he has a Master’s degree in ….wait for it….storytelling. And boy can he tell a tale!
Anyway, the message is particular is called “Think Eternity.” I heard it almost 13 years ago and I’ve never forgotten it. Here’s a link to his site: http://web.mac.com/caliora/OaksEngine/HOME.html
I have several favorites, especially from Louie Giglio and Erwin McManus, but the one that sticks out the most in my mind is Leonard Sweet telling church leaders he hated the word relevant. Then he paused, and he said “Jesus is ALWAYS relevant, you don’t have to make him that way.” And it was like OH. Yeah!
I heard a few earlier this year from Francis Chan,
– It’s a flash website so you have to go to the site, http://www.cornerstonesimi.com
click “media”, then “sermons”
it’s called “the church” from 4-6-08
It’s really good.
And anything by Matt Chandler from the Village church. Re: iTunes – Village Church
And this morning on the way to work I was being crushed by listening to John Piper preaching about the “Glory of the gospel in the new heavens and new earth”
I found that at http://www.theresurgence.org
Roger Paynter, “Life in the Tragic Dimension.” It’s the only sermon on abortion I’ve ever heard of that didn’t resort to platitiudes. Unfortunately not available online.
mine, i believe is the April 15, 2007 message from Dan Southerland, here at Westside. a terrible, terrible announcement turned into a message of hope and healing for a church that only God would keep together.
http://www.westsidefamilychurch.com/messages/fallenleader.mov
A few years ago, Rob Bell came to Cleveland on his “Everything is Spiritual” tour. I loved it so much that I went and bought the dvd.
http://shop.everythingisspiritual.com/?adwords
i don’t know that it was life changing for me, but in terms of just a great all around talk, donald miller at willow’s art conf in ’07. http://www.willowcreek.com/wca_prodsb.asp?invtid=PR30474
Mike Erre – Teaching pastor at RockHarbor
They did a series in Ephesians called “Becoming who we are”. This is the first one that they did called “Adoption into Freedom”. My eyes well up in tears every time I listen. Here is the link:
http://www.rockharbor.org/resources/messages/mp3s/2007.09.30.mp3
Cornerstone Simi has some amazing stuff too.
Love Wins by Rob Bell
Seems like Louie’s getting a lot of traction here. I have to say my favorite ever is Louie Giglio’s Indescribable. It’s the only DVD of a sermon I’ve ever purchased.
I’d link, but I can’t seem to find it on the 268store.
“Tomorrow’s Church” by Dr. Prentice Meador.
http://media.prestoncrest.org/archives/17
http://www.crosspt.cc/audio/071007AJ.mp3
This one of Anne Jackson @ Crosspoint Community Church in Decatur, Alabama.
Thank you Anne for coming to Alabama and sharing your heart.
Mine comes from Rudy Rasmus
Pastors Aint to be PIMPin
(Preachers Interested In Materialistic Pursuits) it was @ the Change the World Conference @ Ginghamsburg last year.
http://www.StJohnsDowntown.org is the church link – not sure about the sermon link however…
This has helped shape my ministry here however…
That’s a tough question. I’ve heard tons of good teaching and messages. N.T. Wright is somebody I read and listen to quite a bit these days. His MP3’s can be downloaded here:
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/
Somebody else that resonates with me in his books and talks is Donald Miller. Check out this message on “Story”:
http://www.donaldmillerwords.com/ride/wp-content/themes/donmiller/treats/letstoryguide.mp3
John Orteberg’s ‘Shadow Mission’
And ‘Life’s Not Fair, Nobody Owes You Anything, But God Loves You Anyway’. Jamie Rasmussen at Fellowship Bible Church, Cleveland, Ohio.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
http://tinyurl.com/55nudq
“Doing Missions When Dying is Gain” by John Piper. Perspective-rocking and life-changing…
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByDate/1813_Doing_Missions_When_Dying_Is_Gain/
The first two messages in an eight-CD set called “Rob Bell Teaches at Willow” available by special request from Willow Creek’s bookstore.