Radicalis Experience

Each Wednesday one of the speakers lined up for the Radicalis gathering in February will be online to chat for a half hour about the upcoming learning experience. Join us each Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) with your questions! Radicalis Chat Line-Up: December 2: Mark Driscoll senior pastor of Mars Hill Church December 9: Pete Scazzero senior pastor of New Life Fellowship Church December 16: Brad Powell senior pastor of NorthRidge Church January 13: Perry Noble senior pastor of NewSpring Church January 20: Dino Rizzo senior pastor of Healing Place Church Read the archive of Kay Warren’s session.

On the Links

• Easy and affordable church website
  If you’re looking for a way to create an interactive and easy-to-manage website for your church, check out SnapShot Web. As a Ministry Toolbox subscriber, you can get the first six months of hosting free if you sign up by December 31. Just enter the promo code TOOLBOX.
• "To Save a Life" – new movie for teens
  Check out an advance screening of “To Save a Life,” a new movie from Outreach Films and New Song Pictures that addresses challenges teens face. This PG-13 movie will be in theaters January 22.
• Email newsletters from Injoy ministry
  John Maxell’s ministry has several e-mail newsletters that help pastors and other leaders.
• New Testament Gateway
  This website, created by a Duke Divinity School professor, gathers a variety of academic resources on the New Testament in one place. You’ll find Bible translations, books, dissertations, and audio and video categorized by New Testament section and book. The material is academic in nature.

Book Look

• Fresh Start
  By Doug Fields (Thomas Nelson, 2009)Are people in your congregation stuck? Many coming to our churches today are exhausted, lonely, angry, bitter, and disappointed with life. In Fresh Start, Doug Fields offers hope for those who are longing for change. He encourages readers to plug into God’s transforming power – like King David and Isaiah did – to discover that God is eager to do the impossible. The book comes with a chapter-by-chapter study guide, so it’s a great tool for small groups.

Saddleback Sayings

• “The quickest way to discover a church’s priorities is to look at its budget and calendar. The way we spend our time and money shows what is really important to us, regardless of what we claim to believe.”– Rick Warren

Bible Bytes

• “My life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus – the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.’”
  
  –Acts 20:24 (NLT)
• “And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day. What you have heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.”
  
  –2 Timothy 1:11-13 (NIV)

Notes & Quotes

• One in seven young professionals between 18 and 29 who traveled for Thanksgiving last year don’t plan on doing so this year. (Source: Echo Research, 2009)

• "Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them." – Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

• "When in doubt, incline always to obedience." – Charles de Foucauld

• "We need to become storytellers again, and so multiply our ministry by calling around us the great witnesses who in different ways offer guidance to doubting hearts." – Henri J.M. Nouwen