This Sunday, February 10th, we celebrate the 2 year anniversary of Elevation Church.
I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since we publicly launched this thing. I guess normally that would mean: It seems like only yesterday…
That’s not what I mean. I mean that I can believe it’s only been 2 years since we [...]

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It gives me great pleasure to introduce to the world…
The greatest sermon I’ve ever heard.
You must block out 27 minutes before the end of the day and watch this. It is a young man preaching his first sermon at a Pentecostal church circa 1985-ish. Watch all three parts… each one is better than the [...]

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I’m still working through the questions you sent in, now divided into three stacks. It seems that, for some reason, some of you want to know a few more personal things about me.
Now that I think about it, I guess I don’t write much about my personal life. I think the wider the audience of [...]

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This week’s installment of the audio blog is taking a left turn and we’re going to tackle a new topic. We’ve hit Elevation Church Best Practices for the last 6 weeks, so this week’s new approach will have more of a Q and A flavor. We made the open call last week for future blog [...]

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… took place this morning in Charlotte, NC at Elevation Church.
For the first time ever we had over 4000 people in attendance.
Michael Franzese, an ex mob boss, wrapped up our Made series by sharing his powerful testimony of the grace of God. Over 50 people responded by placing their faith in Christ for salvation.
Next [...]

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I’ll pick up next week on answering more of the questions you’ve submitted (there are so many good ones!), but today I’m hijacking the blog to let my Elevators know how excited I am about this Sunday.
Don’t forget, this Sunday we’ll be hosting Michael Franzese, a former boss in the infamous Columbo mob family. [...]

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